Manufacturer: Quantum3D Tech: PCI based Voodoo2 SLI board with 24Mb 25ns EDO DRAM Bundle: Drivers and a few game demos Price: $599

Quantum3D's products are like the "Ferrari's" of the video card world, both because they slightly outperform the "Corvettes" that their competitors manufacture (other Voodoo2 card vendors) and mostly due to the exclusivity, uniqueness, and bragging rights of owning a Quantum3D card.

This brings us up to date for the current card we're looking at today, the X-24 SLI 24MB Voodoo2 PCI card from Quantum3D.

The X-24 is the world's only "V2 SLI in One" product. "SLI in One" refers to the fact that Quantum3D has managed to take the components of two individual 12MB Voodoo2 cards and engineer a single card solution, providing the same strong SLI performance that readers have seen with other dual card SLI configurations from other card vendors.

The ability to save a PCI slot at any cost cannot be overlooked. Only now with the recent introduction of the Abit BH6 mainboard have we seen a 440BX product from one of the "top five" board manufacturers debut with 5 PCI slots. Otherwise, the 440BX landscape is fairly bleak with a few exceptions, as even ASUS hasn't debuted a 5 PCI slot model yet (although rumors abound online about a new ASUS board offering 5 PCI slots).