dr.zeissler wrote on 50 minutes ago:

For the gfx, I avoid Nvidia Cards. My favorites are matrox mystique, matrox G200, ati-rage

this is the exact opposite of what you should recommend for dos games
https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/

To my eyes, the SLOT1 is the most perfect platform to use for a 3dfx/dos-highend hybrid. So put a voodoo1 in it with a very good AGP-Card (ATI/Matrox) and go for the late hires-vesa games in dos. To my eyes the later 3D stuff can be played better and much more detailed with actual ports for actual hardware. Take e.g. unreal ? I would never play unreal on a P2/3 500Mhz while I have seen it with 4/8GB Textures in 1080p on my Mac mini M1. That is a totally different game, but as I said that does not count for the very early stuff...respectively dosgilde.

kingcake wrote on 16 minutes ago:

dr.zeissler wrote on 50 minutes ago:

For the gfx, I avoid Nvidia Cards. My favorites are matrox mystique, matrox G200, ati-rage

this is the exact opposite of what you should recommend for dos games
https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/

you missed my point on that, who will play the old early EGA jittery games that even jitter on real early ega-cards. If playing these is you goal than go for a 286/386/486 with an ISA card. Who will play those games on a P2 even if downclocked. You should always consider what is the favorite software you would like to run and then build the machine for this software. If you stretch the bar too wide then you will make those run on the P2 but have a much worse image-quality, shitty win3x fonts and drivers. I would prefer having a sharp clean image and a wide driver support (OS/2,Win3x,Win9x,WinNt, Amithlon, Linux, Nextstep etc.). But I can only speak for myself.