So, I'm pretty sure my Tabor III motherboard has decided not to work for some reason or another. I even tried it with a different HDD to no avail.

However, I have one more vintage machine- I had forgotten about it this entire time. My emachines etower 433i. Granted, it's not a very powerful PC in the slightest, with its integrated ATI Rage Pro graphics (no heatsink on it, either!) with 4MB of VRAM, and 433MHz Socket 370 Celeron. It has no AGP slot, but I'm thinking PCI for video.

I don't want to change the processor it uses, but I do believe the main bottleneck in this system is the graphics, gaming-wise. If I were to go this route, what would you recommend for time-accurate hardware that is cheap nowadays, but would do the trick with the PCI-only situation I'm in? I should mention that I will allow zero additional TNT2 M64 based video cards into my collection. I learned my lesson with those when I was first starting out getting GPUs for this project a while back.

I would do the obvious and go for a Voodoo 3 but with my budget I might as well just go ahead and build an entire new system, case and all, and use some parts I already have, if I were to be able to cough up that much money.