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First post, by WyndC

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hey people,

Four questions, if you'd like to answer great, if not no worries. thanks all.

1)I purchased a GX150 SFF and I have 512MB of RAM, SB0100 sound card and a ATI 128MB Ultra 32MB AGP Graphics Card. Everything is working nice, especially sound in DOS, but no 3D games. I read that some cards don't work in the PCI riser rig due to power issues, so I'm going to grab a 160W power supply for the gx240. Any PCI cards I'm seeing are too big, does anyone have any advice? I've read various sites, but they all seem too big to fit in the PCI riser rig.

2)Also, I noticed that if I let my Windows 98 PC go to sleep, when I press the keyboard or press the power button to bring the system back up, my sound in DOS is no longer available. If I restart the system, BAM it works again. Just curious if anyone has seen that?

3) GX150 - Anyone know what the best Bios is? The website for Dell for the GX150 says up to A11, but when I updated it from A05 it was successful, but the hard drive wouldn't boot, "No OS found". Using a floppy IMG I brought it back to A06 and everything worked. I've read on a few posts that A06 is technically the only one for this hardware.

4) If I can't do anything, I found a good price on a GX240 tower, so that's on the way. Recommended Video Card for that guy?

Reply 1 of 8, by alexclaudiu2003

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The GX150 sff it's very buggy because it is to small and it's not worth it .
Buy the gx240 and put any geforce 4 or quadro 4, 128 bit bus, 64/128 mb.
Don't use nvidia Fx series or ATI/Amd.

Reply 2 of 8, by KCompRoom2000

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Since your GX150 is the small form factor model, you'll be limited to low-profile/half-height AGP graphics cards, which severely narrows your choices. If you're not too picky, an nVidia Geforce4 MX440 would be a great choice for it. I used to have one in my Dell Dimension 4300S (which is like a consumer-oriented version of the GX240 small desktop) and it worked great for Windows 98 gaming.

For your GX240 tower, I'd go for an nVidia Geforce3/4 Ti series card (maybe a Ti4200 if you can find one at a decent price). My GX150 tower has a GF4 Ti4200 and it's pretty good as well.

I'd recommend nVidia Detonator 43.45 or 45.23 drivers for those cards.

Reply 3 of 8, by kolderman

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I have a mx440 and works fine. Don't recall any issues using latest bios.

Reply 4 of 8, by amxcs

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Hello,
I also found a GX150 with a black Dell monitor (for $15) in perfect condition, there wasn't even any dust in it!
I installed win98 on it and it works great.
I want to add a video card to it. For testing I tried a normal GeForce MX440 128/128 and a Radeon 9600 128/128. Both work great, but of course I can't close the box. 😁
Now I'm looking for a low profile AGP card.
I want to ask which is better 64mb/128bit or 128mb/64bit for games, because I only found one that is 128/128 (MSI FX5500, but I will have to use DVI to VGA)
I also found a low profile Geforce 6200 256mb/64bit.

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What video card would you recommend I get?

Reply 5 of 8, by The Serpent Rider

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The fastest low profile AGP card you can get for Windows 98 is Radeon 9600. There were some variants with 128-bit bus. I believe there were some low-profile 128-bit GeForce 440MX too, but obviously without any shader support. And if you really lucky, you could obtain a low-profile Radeon 8500/9100.

GeForce 6200 DDR2 variants also work, although compatibility is lower. Why DDR2? All low profile 6200 are gimped with 64-bit bus and DDR2 memory is clocked higher and overclocks better.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 6 of 8, by amxcs

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I wonder if 128MB is needed?
Which one of these should I get?

GeForce 2 Gainward MX400 TV-Out 64MB DDR 128bit
GeForce 4 Gainward MX 440 64MB DDR 128bit
GeForce MSI FX5500 128MB DDR 128bit
GeForce Gainward 6200A 256MB DDR 64bit
GeForce Gigabyte N6200RH 256MB GDDR2 64bit

Reply 7 of 8, by amxcs

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And yet I found a low-profile GeForce 4 MX440SE 128MB/128bit. I can't wait for it to arrive and test it.

And the other thing I want to ask about the PIII 933mhz is there any point in getting a better video card?
I mean these, if they are better?
GeForce MSI FX5500 128MB DDR 128bit
GeForce Gigabyte N6200RH 256MB GDDR2 64bit

Shouldn't I get them too. They are all $10 each.

Reply 8 of 8, by amxcs

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I cut the plank, bent it and it turned out perfect.

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