First post, by ratfink
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I am wondering what a 486 system would be capable of, and what the best cards to get for it would be. If I ever get round to putting the system together!
The motherboards I have are a tk8881, and a Jetboard 466B, both apparently unused. Processors are 486 DX50 and 486 DX25 I think. The boards have onboard cache [no COAST slot needed] and PCI and ISA slots - no AGP or VESA. So they are pretty late 486 boards. One has 3 pci and 3 isa, the other has 3 pci and 4 isa [one pci/isa slot shared].
What gfx boards would give me decent compatibility? I am not sure what games they would be for - so probably things up to but not necessarily including Doom, maybe running Win95 or maybe just DOS. Could add a Voodoo 1.
The sound cards would be a choice between GUS Pnp or ACE, SB Pro 2, or SB16.
Have a 3com ISA NIC, or could use PCI - what would be best there?