Greywolf1 wrote on 2024-01-24, 09:32:
Now my challenge is finding the bloody cards eBay can’t seem to tell the difference between pci and pci-e or agp,
I’ve found a 5500 for £50 but most available are $200 -$500 from America
Do you mean a Voodoo 5 5500 or a Geforce FX 5500? Because there will be quite the difference.
A Voodoo 5500 will obviously be expensive, and the PCI ones even more than the AGP. Very sought after in general, and the PCI ones will run on boards that only have 0.8V AGP 3.0 (The card needs a 3.3V AGP 1.0 or 1.0/2.0 (3.3v & 1.5V) compatible slot) and on boards with no AGP ports at all.
A Geforce FX 5500 will be a fine DX8 card, and while theoretically DX9 capable, performance isn't great. Should be faster than a FX 5200 or Radeon 9200 and slower than a FX 5200 Ultra or 9000 Pro.
Looking at old reviews, it will run about as well as a Radeon 9600 in the right games.
If you want DX9, there seems to be a Radeon X1300 and a Geforce 6200 in PCI
Looking for it I found a even a thread on the FX 5500 PCI
Anyone with experience with Geforce FX 5500 PCI?
For general late DOS gaming, everything up to Geforce 6 and Radeon 9000 will run flawlessly with official drivers, but slightly newer cards will also work if you mod the driver.
For the general platform, you would want driver support as well. There are a couple Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 Northwood boards with WIndows 9x drivers, but the classic Pentium 3/Athlon and older will work pretty much out-of-the-box.
For older DOS games you run into speed issues. As in, the games run too fast.
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