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Good/Best PCI Graphics Card for Windows 2000?

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First post, by flux1270

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I am building a dual slot 1 workstation and plan on installing Windows 2000. I'm going with two Pentium III 500s and 2GB of RAM.
What is the best (or at least a good) graphics card for a system like this? I don't have an AGP slot so that kinda limits my options. Looking for something that would perform well in both gaming and Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc.

Thanks!

Toshiba Tecra 510CDT (P133MhZ, 48MB RAM, W98SE)
Compaq Armada E700 (P3 500MhZ, ~512MB RAM, W2K)
Dell XPS T500 (P3 500MhZ, ~512MB RAM, FX 5200, Audigy 2ZS, W2K)
Macintosh Classic II (68030 16MhZ, 4MB RAM, System 7.something)

Reply 1 of 2, by chinny22

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Same rules that apply to a Win98 build will still apply as a P3 will be playing same era games and you'll want to avoid the same backwards compatibility issues of later cards.
Best PCI graphics card for Windows 98

Reply 2 of 2, by flux1270

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Thanks for the reply.

I threw some bids on a few FX 5000 series cards (I think two FX 5200s and another I don't remember).

Toshiba Tecra 510CDT (P133MhZ, 48MB RAM, W98SE)
Compaq Armada E700 (P3 500MhZ, ~512MB RAM, W2K)
Dell XPS T500 (P3 500MhZ, ~512MB RAM, FX 5200, Audigy 2ZS, W2K)
Macintosh Classic II (68030 16MhZ, 4MB RAM, System 7.something)

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