I got this duo not too long ago from a friend and they are one of my favorite things to play around with under Windows XP. ATI made some improvements with this iteration of CrossFire, but it was still done with an external cable.
CrossFire genesis, when it was handled by an external cable that connected the two GPUs together and then sent the signal to the monitor. A major critique of this first generation was a limit of 60Hz output at 1600x1200, which was probably the resolution you were trying to play at if you were purchasing two top-of-the-line GPUs.
This was ATI's answer to the first GeForce, the GeForce 256, until they could release their Radeon. This was one of the first dual chip graphics cards, aside from offerings from Quantum 3D. It had two Rage 128 Pro chips. My understanding is that it only works under Windows 9x and has compatibility issues with a lot of motherboards due to its haphazard dual chip implementation.
The GeForce 7950 GX2 was NVIDIA's first factory dual GPU "card" with two G71 dies. I say "card" because it's actually two PCBs screwed together with an SLI connector in the middle, so it's more like two 7950 GTs in SLI while using only one PCIE slot and having slightly reduced clocks and really sh*tty cooling. As far as I know, two of these cards are also the only way to do quad SLI in Windows XP.
Hunted for one of these for years. The GeForce 5800 Ultra was a big disappointment when it arrived late, with very limited availability, and a notorious "dustbuster" cooling solution. It was only slightly faster than ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro and looked even worse as time went on due to the FX series' poor DirectX 9 performance.
This card features 2D and 3D graphics acceleration, sound, and Sega Saturn controller ports as a kind of all-in-one multimedia solution. It uses NVIDIA's first graphics chip, the NV1. Its 3D applications are limited as it did 3D rendering with quadrilaterals when the rest of the industry went with triangles so there are only a few select games that support it. This is the high-end model featuring a daughterboard that upgrades it to 4MB of memory.
My family used one of these dual 56K modems from Diamond for a short while before broadband become available in our area. I remember we had only recently upgraded from 33.6K to 56K. We already had a second phone line so that when someone was on the Internet someone else could still use the phone. With this bad boy, we used both phone lines and the Internet was flying! I was downloading QuickTime video clips like they were going out of style.