Talk:Scan-Line Interleave

message: My sources suggest that 3dfx was not, in fact, the first to combine the power of two video cards. Around 1990, Silicon Graphics produced the SkyWriter, which contained twin graphics subsystems that could be coupled to interleave frame generation. Citations follow.
:SkyWriter Technical Report - Hyperpipeline
:Citation identifying publishing date of above report
Siggimoo 21:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

message: It's not true that a pair of Voodoo cards communicated by ribbon cable AND Vga-to-vga cable.
Two voodoo cards are connected esclusively by the ribbon cable, and only one of them is connected to the 2D graphics board via VGA to VGA cable (the monitor is connected to this card's output), —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.193.5.35 (talk) 11:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cables 

message: I think that this page is somewhat inaccurate. I owned a Voodoo II SLI setup in 1998, and my experience was completely different. The setup was easy, it significantly increased performance over a single-card solution, and the game incompatibilities were minimal. This article definitely needs sources.
Aerst2 (talk) 20:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The hardware configurations the Voodoo2's were used in varied wildly, you can't tack it on one person's experience whether it's easy to get the cards to work well or not. I personally have four Voodoo2 cards (2 x 8MB, 2 x 12MB) and they're all a nightmareish experience to get working properly.
Windows 98 didn't have any virtualized hardware resources, so many devices in the system had to share IRQs and other resources. Voodoo2's took a big linear chunk of I/O, which usually couldn't be changed and often conflicted with just about every other device in the system. You more or less had to strategically install devices one after another in specific order so they found the resources they liked and nothing tried to edge in on them. 207.119.2.32 (talk) 06:26, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy 

message: The Criticism section is full of inaccurate information and original research.  I plan on removing the entire section unless somebody can defend what is written there.
The primary flaw in the Criticism section is that it concentrates the discussion on SLI's effect on frame rates (FPS).  Voodoo 2 SLI was never marketed as increasing FPS.  Therefor I don't see how you can criticize its lack of effect in that area.   The primary benefit to using Voodoo 2 SLI is enabling the 1024x768 resolution on Voodoo 2 (a single Voodoo 2 card could only produce a maximum resolution of 800x600).  This information seems to be missing from the article.The Goat (talk) 14:57, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I want to remove the Criticism section 

message: I've added two references that support the arguments made in the article, that is to say, little to no performance increase in frame rates. In regard to the above section here in discussion, it is true that the SLI enabled higher resolutions, but that's another matter. 3dfx did in fact market the arrangement as a performance increase across the board.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.118.240.6 (talk) 21:52, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I still support removing the section entirely.  3dfx never marketed SLI as increasing framerates.  The guru3d.com article you linked to clearly states that SLI increases 3d performance by enabling 1024x768 resolution.  The other criticisms are pure hogwash.  Not compatible with every computer because it requires two PCI slots?  So every article on wikipedia concerning computer expansion boards should include criticisms complaining that an expansion slot is required.  No PC hardware is 100% compatible with every PC ever made.  That is not a legitimate criticism.The Goat (talk) 15:30, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism updated with references 

message: In the criticism section it states, "(It can now be seen that the original 3DFX SLI was very effective, more so than even current implementations by Nvidia & ATI, capable of achieving near 100% performance increase over a single Voodoo2 card. The reason this could not be observed before was that the CPU was the limiting factor.)"
But, there is no indication on the reference supporting this statement. As a matter of fact, benchmarks with SLI cards show almost no difference. On page 3 of the thread the images show little difference. Images are located here;
http://i40.tinypic.com/2r559ns.gif
http://i43.tinypic.com/f595l5.gif
Since the statement is not supported by the reference (3), it is being removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.225.125.86 (talk) 03:51, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing unsupported reference