my K6-3 is in a 430TX board... not any fancy super7 board... why is it this way? because I was too pissed off 3 months after I got the board that super 7 came out, and I didn't know it (back when information was harder to get)!
it works fine and is rock solid for what it is... for one thing, there's far less problems on an intel chipset than with via, sis or whatever
anyway, why haven't I ditched that board stilll? money.
I don't want to spend too much money on this obsolete system that I'm only going to spend limited hours messing around with
I only found out about the "super duper fast" PCI cards recently through a search on ebay out of pure boredom... hence whey I came to settle on the radeon 9250
I like ati, its good drivers (no it wasn't this way years ago!), and good video quality... and I rather have a fast GPU that waits on the rest of the system than the rest of the system waiting on the GPU
yes voodoo 3 and others work, but the money spent will be similar
the whole point of me even wanting a new video card is so that I can at least finally play quake2 on that machine... something I was never able to really do... yeah, the TNT is that freaking slow... that fatal flaw alone is enough justification to spend some money to do one final "hurah" upgrade on that K6-3 box.... it'll more than likely be my own "retrobox", it'll take too much effort resurrecting my 386 and getting a 486