First post, by TheAdmiralty
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Howdy!
Got a bit of a hunt going on. Here's the story. I've been in the market for an... upgrade... for my AOpen AX6BC + Pentium III, when I stumbled into a (like) NIB 486 4GPV4 motherboard with original manual and everything for $30. Needless to say it's in the mail, followed by a Cyrix Cx486 DX2-80. Inbound shortly will be a floppy/scsi controller, a full-height 9gb IBM SCSI HDD, probably 64MB of memory, and a serial controller+serial mouse. Also, an ATX mid-tower and AT power supply new from NewEgg - 'gonna bust out the dremel, soldering iron, and our college's laser cutter and go to town on the both of them. Ultimately, the build will be as follows:
Motherboard: Green-A 4GPV4
CPU: Cyrix Cx486 DX2-80
Memory: 256k Cache, 64MB SIMM
Storage: IBM 9GB DCHS-09F on BusLogic BT445S + 3.5" 1.44M FDD
Audio: AWE32 CT3990, Logitech Soundman Wave, SB16 CT1740, whatever I feel like. I LOVE old wavetable MIDI cards and have quite a collection.
Case: Whatever NewEgg has for $20.
PSU: Athena AP-AT30 (New Stock) - will mount a SPST in place of the case's momentary pushbutton.
GPU: ???
Ah, the graphics card. There's the kicker. I have room for two VLB units, one of which will be the disk controller. I'm going to be running Win9x on this, probably 95, but 98 if I find it to be stable enough. I really MUCH prefer 98. Anyway, I've been looking for the ideal ISA/VLB video card for this - the resolutions and color depths I'm shooting for are well beyond 1MB of VRAM, though. 4MB would be great, but I can't find a single thing outside of the Mach64 (which is being sold for $450 on eBay... god, do I hate people) that's both reasonably priced and available.
I come here now in search of a list of good units that will function under Win95. Any of them, 2MB and up, ISA or VLB. I don't care about game performance whatsoever.. all I want is to pull the highest resolution out of this as possible; it's going to be driving a really out-of-place widescreen flat panel for the time being that runs at 1400x900 - it's my general purpose testing monitor used by a couple other systems. Yes, I know I'll be feeding 4:3 into it. It can handle it with a bit of letterboxing.
Any suggestions? I don't really even need a place to buy it just yet; if you have something or know of something that fits the bill, please do tell. With a big enough list I'm sure I'll be able to find at least one card in some dark corner of the internet. I just don't know what to search for.
Much appreciated!
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