appiah4 wrote on 2024-10-11, 06:30:

Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-10-10, 17:34:

VivienM wrote on 2024-10-10, 15:35:

Okay, so if you want period correctness, the top of the line option at the time of a Dimension 4100 was a GeForce 2 GTS. Maybe a GeForce 2 Ultra but I am not sure Dell offered (and I presume with all of Internet Archive's recent issues, I can't check wayback machine) those. eBay is also full of Dell OE GF2 MX cards.

I really, really would urge you to stay away from ATI. In part because ATI had a different philosophy when it came to drivers in those days - they had separate drivers (with separate bugs) for each of their products. Nvidia had one driver family, which I think was called... Detonator... back then, so they would release updated drivers for the entire product lineup quite regularly. ATI would eventually embrace the Nvidia-style model with the Catalyst driver family on the later Radeons, but I don't think that applies to the cards you're looking at.

Okay didn't know ATI was that bad

That's fine, because they were not bad. At all. I've been using ATI cards and drivers since Radeon 8500 and it was just FINE. And ATi did have unified drivers all the way back in 2002: https://www.anandtech.com/show/931/2

Yes, and the OP is talking about a card from 1999. I agree that AMD started to turn the ship around the time of the Radeon 8xxx/9xxx...