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First post, by t9999clint

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I have a very wacky idea for a windows 98 build...

Through some extra tweaks and the right hardware, I've been able to get Hardware GPU passthrough to work for VMWare ESXi on my Z97 board. This lets me use a old Radeon HD4870 and my newer GTX 1060 on the same machine with a Win XP VM for old games and a Win 10 VM for new games.

I was wondering if a AGP to PCI-E converter exists, If so then I could configure a Windows 98 SE VM and run all three on real GPU hardware. I have a Voodoo 5 5500 that I'm planning on using for the GPU.

If it doesn't exist, then I can still do the project, but I'll be forced to use a slower pci card instead. I wish I had a pci voodoo right now... 😢

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Reply 1 of 7, by gbeirn

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Sort of. You'd need to adapters, an AGP to PCI and then a PCI to PCI express. Hop on eBay and see what you can find. I think I remember someone doing this with a v5-6000 at some point so theroretically it should be possible.

Reply 2 of 7, by nforce4max

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I do vaguely remember seeing such adapters but they were only available for a very brief period of time when pci-e was first introduced and they are RARE outside of Japan. I know a way of getting native DX8 in pci-e form and some here know what I am probably hinting at but telling will only cause prices to sky rocket. As for Glide you can get nglide and run that but it requires DX9.

You can still build period correct systems at this time with spending too much but that will change as the years go on and there isn't much of a reason to not do it. XP/Win7 is the easiest to do and dirt cheap if you get lucky on a second hand system. For Win9x start hunting locally and never know you might get lucky on a hidden gem of a pentium 2/3/4 system. eBay is a real drain money wise and the uber deals for nickles and dimes are getting harder to come by due to the competition over fewer and fewer auctions.

On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.

Reply 3 of 7, by t9999clint

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nforce4max wrote:

I do vaguely remember seeing such adapters but they were only available for a very brief period of time when pci-e was first introduced and they are RARE outside of Japan. I know a way of getting native DX8 in pci-e form and some here know what I am probably hinting at but telling will only cause prices to sky rocket. As for Glide you can get nglide and run that but it requires DX9.

You can still build period correct systems at this time with spending too much but that will change as the years go on and there isn't much of a reason to not do it. XP/Win7 is the easiest to do and dirt cheap if you get lucky on a second hand system. For Win9x start hunting locally and never know you might get lucky on a hidden gem of a pentium 2/3/4 system. eBay is a real drain money wise and the uber deals for nickles and dimes are getting harder to come by due to the competition over fewer and fewer auctions.

I have several retro gaming rigs already.
At least one for every 5 yrs or so from 1993 to 2016

I want to make a rig that'll run multiple OSes at once all in one machine. Just for the Lawlz, and for a silly YouTube video.
Also it'd be convenient to do it all with one machine.

I'm interested in the DX8 PCI-E card, but I'll be making a Youtube video about it so I don't think it'd be a good idea to tell me if you want the price to stay down.

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Reply 5 of 7, by t9999clint

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I think I'm gonna stick with plain old PCI.

You think something like this will work well with W98 with nGlide?
nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256MB PCI

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Reply 6 of 7, by cyclone3d

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t9999clint wrote:

I think I'm gonna stick with plain old PCI.

You think something like this will work well with W98 with nGlide?
nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256MB PCI

It should work.. but my guess is that really has an FX 5200 GPU under that heatsink that they just overclocked and changed the BIOS string on.

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Reply 7 of 7, by agent_x007

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Well FX 5500 is a overclocked FX 5200 w/128-bit bus.
I own similar card : LINK
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