Hi,

I'm always jumping around between a bunch of 'projects' but here is what I've been having fun with lately. I got this Deskpro 590 off ebay for $40. There was very little information, the seller just said 'Partially tested..seems to pass Video and RAM test, CD does not open". I was concerned from some of the pictures that it might have been water damaged, but to my relief it was just 20 years of dust. At some point it seems like someone had done some upgrading because here were the specs:

Pentium 75
40mb ram (72 pin SIMM?)
Onboard QVision 1280P+ w 1mb vram
Soundblaster Awe64 value
Broken 24x CD-Rom (replaced with 48x CDRW, the only beige ide drive I had)
4.6gb Quantum Fireball IDE
Windows 98 (not SE)

Amazingly the soldered BR2335 battery still holds a charge (Why solder on coin batteries!), I had ordered an external battery just in case. Originally I had planned to use Win95 but the functional Win98 OS was a nice surprise, I think I'll keep it. I plan to replace the HDD with 2x 8gb IDE DOM. I think I'd like to increase the memory but I'm still debating how much is a good idea. I ordered a socket5 overdrive cpu, not sure it's supported or not, looking forward to testing. I ordered the 2mb vram upgrade for the onboard just to be able to run 1024x768 @ 16bit color, although after installing Jedi Knight and experiencing 320x240 software renderer it was eye bleeding bad. Originally I had thought about getting a period correct card that would support minigl and some basic Win98 3d acceleration but everything 3dfx, powervr and rendition based are looking to cost more than I've spent on everything else so far.

Questions:
Any suggestions on a cheap PCI video card that support directx acceleration, is cheap, and wouldn't seem massively out of place on a Pentium75/150/166? I have a Radeon 7000 and Radeon 9250 which could work but they also have more vram than this system has ram.
Any other suggestions?