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First post, by Aglenoth

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Hello everyone , i have stumbled upon a few cards in school storage which i went through, which ones should i keep ? And for what build should i use them ?

Ati rage XL
Ati 3D rage pro agp 2x
Matrox mga 98’
GeForce MX420 64M agp
Ess maestro-2
Crystal 4281
Some Opti soundchip card ?

Any help is higly appriciated 😀 also i want to ask is it worth to restore Dell GX1 ? My school still have like 10 functioning and they are giving them for free , so i thought i would take one and retrobrighted it 😀 Please tell me what you think 😀

Best regards,
Aglenoth ☺️

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Pentium II 266 MHz
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Reply 1 of 13, by cyclone3d

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Post pics. If it were me, I would keep them all.

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Reply 2 of 13, by skitters

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Aglenoth wrote:

also i want to ask is it worth to restore Dell GX1 ? My school still have like 10 functioning and they are giving them for free , so i thought i would take one and retrobrighted it

If you'd like a computer from that era, then sure.
You can still find drivers for old Dells on the Dell website.

Reply 3 of 13, by lazibayer

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Ati rage XL
- AGP: meh; PCI: OK

Ati 3D rage pro agp 2x
- meh

Matrox mga 98’
- what card is this?

GeForce MX420 64M agp
- meh

Ess maestro-2
- I had a Diamond S70 that came with this chip. I preferred its sound quality over S90 or S100, but I was primarily using it under Windows.

Crystal 4281
- Not sure about what you got, but I haven't saw any good sample that I'd like to keep

Some Opti soundchip card ?
- needs more details

Any help is higly appriciated 😀 also i want to ask is it worth to restore Dell GX1 ? My school still have like 10 functioning and they are giving them for free , so i thought i would take one and retrobrighted it 😀 Please tell me what you think 😀
- has AGP: OK; no AGP: meh

Reply 4 of 13, by Aglenoth

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Thanks for help 😀 here are cards that you needed information on 😀 I havent studied them much further because i dont have my main machine with myself to do research so any information will be fantastic 😀

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Pentium II 266 MHz
Diamond Voodoo Monster II 12 Mb
S3 trio 64v+ 2Mb
ESS AudioDrive 1868f
10Gb fireball HDD
256 Mb Ram
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Reply 5 of 13, by CkRtech

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Matrox card is a G100 (Productiva G100).

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Reply 6 of 13, by Aglenoth

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Thanks for info ☺️

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Pentium II 266 MHz
Diamond Voodoo Monster II 12 Mb
S3 trio 64v+ 2Mb
ESS AudioDrive 1868f
10Gb fireball HDD
256 Mb Ram
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Reply 8 of 13, by cj_reha

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If you have space, keep them all. IMO, it is important to preserve all vintage computer hardware no matter how crap it is.

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Reply 9 of 13, by Aglenoth

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Guess i will keep them all ☺️

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Pentium II 266 MHz
Diamond Voodoo Monster II 12 Mb
S3 trio 64v+ 2Mb
ESS AudioDrive 1868f
10Gb fireball HDD
256 Mb Ram
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Reply 10 of 13, by lazibayer

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Aglenoth wrote:

Thanks for help 😀 here are cards that you needed information on 😀 I havent studied them much further because i dont have my main machine with myself to do research so any information will be fantastic 😀

I'd keep G100 for its collectible value, and give 82C931 a "meh".

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Reply 11 of 13, by dondiego

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The crystal cs4281 has very good dos compatibility both in windows and real mode dos on boards with ddma. Mine (genius) has good sound quality.

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Reply 12 of 13, by gdjacobs

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dondiego wrote:

The crystal cs4281 has very good dos compatibility both in windows and real mode dos on boards with ddma. Mine (genius) has good sound quality.

But the OPL3 support sucks compared to the Solo-1 and Yamaha cards. Also, does it support MIDI out under pure DOS?

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Reply 13 of 13, by nforce4max

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In this hobby trashing hardware isn't recommended unless its really dead even with some less desirable lower end cards as supplies of higher end parts dries up there is usually demand for whatever works comes up so holding on for later use or sale is your best option. In a few years to a decade selling those cards will probably be very easy as more and more people take up retro gaming or at the least buy this or that shiny thing for geek points on social media being the big thing like with 8bit machines ect at this time.

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