I am afraid there was only NT driver, but for the price it is good collector item. Rage 128 would serve well (check for 128 bit memory), eventually some cheap Voodoo3 PCI should appear.

ELSA Winner 8 MB (with S3 Vision968)
Anything from Riva128ZX to GF4MX as PCI card.
Anything from Matrox G100 to G450
Same applies for Ati, anything from Rage Pro to Radeon 9250 PCI f.e.

That's a shame... might take it just to add to the collection anyway, for $15. I've paid more than that for shipping alone.

I'm seeing a lot of OEM Rage128's that are pulls out of PowerMac systems, though some of them aren't. Also a couple Rage Pros and a nice Matrox G450 - I think I might end up going with that should all else fail. I've been flipping through old(er) reviews over at TomsHardware and ran into a couple Hercules cards, and that second one would be one of the most interesting things I could possibly find... unfortunately, I haven't seen any card at all from them for quite a few years now. Hard to believe how many things have just disappeared entirely.

I would choose a Nvidia Riva 128(zx), Riva TNT(2) or a Geforce2(4) MX.
When it comes to 2D speed the Matrox Millenium is really really fast though.

And Matrox is really sharp at high res, so the G450 would be my choice. Rage Pro has nothing on it, just like those Hercules cards.

The GUI performance of G400, Rage128, Voodoo3 and TNT2 are similar anyway. Newer cards will beat Matrox unless you get a Parhelia perhaps, which has no Win9x driver. GeForce 4 MX 128bit should really stomp a Matrox G400/450/550.

However a K6 is a significant bottleneck so none of this matters much. The primary concern is a quality VGA signal.

He could use DVI, so analog signal quality isn't an issue at all.

Putas wrote:

I am afraid there was only NT driver, but for the price it is good collector item. Rage 128 would serve well (check for 128 bit memory), eventually some cheap Voodoo3 PCI should appear.

Any cheap Voodoo3 PCI's that appear usually end up in my mailbox a few days later. 🤣

Mmm... it's taking everything I've got to not sit here and tell myself "...but the next generation is just a bit better..." over and over again. The last time I did this, I ended up nearly ten years off with an AGP GeForce 6800 running alongside a Pentium II clocked at a whopping 266Mhz. Needless to say that build ended up being a bit out of whack.

My trusty Acer V193W (the one monitor I use for just about everything) has two ports on the back - VGA and power. It's probably the most bare-minimum widescreen monitor you'll ever find. It may run at the rather awkward resolution of 1440x900, but the thing is easy to pack up in a relatively small box, eats anything you throw at it, and has an exceptionally clear image with nice color. For being a free monitor from the local grocery store, it's quite a nice one. Even runs at 75Hz. 😎

sliderider wrote:

Any cheap Voodoo3 PCI's that appear usually end up in my mailbox a few days later. 🤣

So it's you! 😠 Heh, I know the feeling... I'm slowly soaking up all the ceramic processors I come in contact with, if for no reason other than keeping them from some guy thinking that he'll make a hundred dollars by scrapping a handful of perfectly good processors. I find myself questioning why I have a nice white-and-gold Fujitsu 8088 clone, sometimes, but oh well. Should these eBay sellers grow a collective brain and stop charging $500+ for these early Pentium-generation Single Board Computers, they'd probably start disappearing, too.