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Three Voodoo2s and a K6-2

Three 12 MB Voodoo2 cards, one K6-2 tower, and a 3DMark99 run in SLI.

I tested three 12 MB Voodoo2 cards individually in the K6-2 tower, then paired the two Creative cards in SLI. The system initially failed to detect SLI. Reseating the cards restored detection, and I ran 3DMark99 again with both cards enabled.

Processor
AMD K6-2 350
Motherboard
ASUS P5A-B rev. 1.03
Graphics
Two Creative Voodoo2 cards and one A-Trend 2455P, 12 MB each
Operating system
Windows 98 SE

System screenshots

NSSI General Information on a CRT, listing an AMD K6-2 at 350 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, and MS-DOS 6.22.Open full-size image
NSSI system overview under MS-DOS 6.22.
NSSI Multimedia Details listing Diamond Sonic Impact s90 or similar, with port 220h, IRQ 5, and DMA 1.Open full-size image
DOS audio settings and the CD-ROM driver reported by NSSI.
NSSI Video Details identifying a Matrox Millennium G200 with 8 MB of memory on AGP 2×.Open full-size image
The Matrox card and its video BIOS details.
NSSI 3D Graphics Acceleration lists the Matrox MGA-G200 and a 3Dfx Voodoo2 as the external accelerator.Open full-size image
NSSI detects the Voodoo2 alongside the Matrox card.
3DMark99 results
ConfigurationScore
Creative card 12,267
Creative card 22,282
A-Trend 2455P2,306
Two Creative cards in SLI2,732
Socket 7 benchmark table comparing seven CPUs across DOS Quake, GLQuake, Quake 2, and 3DMark. The last row is labeled AMD K6-2+ 350.Open full-size image
A separate Socket 7 comparison table with Quake and 3DMark results.

The Case of the Missing Scanlines

All three cards showed missing lines through the GBS-C, even with the GBS-C connected directly to a display. The picture on the CRT was clean. The cause is still open.

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