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Which is preferable for DOS/Win98 gaming rig: Radeon 9250 128MB, Quadro NVS280 64MB, or else?

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First post, by retardware

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I am currently setting up my old AT after it rested for a few years.
Objective is to play DOS and pre-XP games of all sorts.
Resolution must be up to 1600x1200 and it must have digital output, i.e. cards with only VGA output are no-go. Driver quality for Windows 98 must be good. It must be available as PCI (not PCIe!), availability as AGP is optional.

Right now at hand I have AGP and PCI versions of Radeon 9250 128MB and Nvidia Quadro NVS280 64MB.
I also have a few cards in AGP only, a GeForce Ti4200, but it has a fan (bad) and a Quadro 700 XGL, which has a suicide fan (very bad).

Is one of these graphics cards recommendable, or should I get another?

Reply 2 of 3, by tpowell.ca

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The Serpent Rider wrote:

DOS:
S3 > Nvidia > 3dfx > ATi > Matrox

I thought 3dfx had better VESA compatibility than nvidia.

  • Merlin: MS-4144, AMD5x86-160 32MB, 16GB CF, ZIP100, Orpheus, GUS, S3 VirgeGX 2MB
    Tesla: GA-6BXC, VIA C3 Ezra-T, 256MB, 120GB SATA, YMF744, GUSpnp, Quadro2
    Newton: K6XV3+/66, AMD K6-III+500, 256MB, 32GB SSD, AWE32, Voodoo3

Reply 3 of 3, by The Serpent Rider

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Technically they are almost identical, but I had some problem with VESA Powerslave/Exhumed (probably TekWar too) on 3dfx, which is not present on any Nvidia card.

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

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