First post, by MrMateczko
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So, my 6800GT died...again. 🙁 Forcing me to revert back to the indestructible MX440.
It's passive, it still works after 14 years, and still has no Pixel Shaders 😀
With that, I became more obsessed not with 98SE hardcore rigs, but making a nice 98SE rig that is pretty much silent or close to it.
So, which card should I choose?
I can find in my country these cards:
-ATI Radeon 9200
-ATI Radeon 9250
-ATI Radeon 9600
-NVIDIA GeForce 6200
AFAIK, here's how they compare:
9250 is a under-clocked version of the 9200 by 10MHz on the core. Should it be overclocked easily above it with passive cooling? 9600 has an extra vertex shader and much higher clocks, but apart from that, nothing else. 6200 has two extra vertex shaders and has DDR2 memory. So it should be the most powerful? But it's the most expensive, while 9250 is the cheapest.
I'll be trying new games which push 98SE to the limit like Need for Speed: Carbon, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Far Cry 1, and old games like Knights and Merchants, UT99, Quake III Arena, Star Wars Racer and the like. Also DOS games inside Windows 98 session (no pure DOS).
I have a 1024x768 monitor, and won't be using higher resolutions.
I know I could put a silent fan on a better GPU, but that's not the point. 😀
Also, which CPU would go best with these cards? I want a CPU that has commonly and cheaply available silent fans. It can be a bit overkill if needed. And USB booting support like my current nForce3 s754 machine. I do not waste CD's.
