FX 5600 should be fine; you could go for a FX 5900, or even 6800 or something like that...

9800 Pro is a good old workhorse. 5900 as noted too.

How old are you looking to go, game-wise?

if you are going to play any dos game, my 9500PRO is bad at it, can't run some side-scrolling games properly (like Lost Vikings), I would think the 9800pro is the same.

Roman78 wrote:

I have a Radeon 9250 from MSI

Low profile with full height back plane, "MSI shaped" heat sink? That one has a lot of low resolution VESA video modes like 320x200/240, 400x300, 512x384, all in 8, 15, 16 and 32-bit flavors, and it even fakes to have no more than 16MB of memory, it's just great for late DOS era scene stuff. It's an absolutely insignificant, cheap card - but a gem in disguise 😀

As for its Windows performance, I don't know yet. I should install W98 on my Tualatin rig which has the card.

I would go with a Radeon 9800 Pro or a MEDION Radeon 9800XXL (can be found cheap on ebay in Europe) for DX9 compatibility. Had a similar card in combination with Athlon XP 2600+ and was a good combo.

Radeon 9250 seems too slow for your cpu to me and you would loose alot of performance.

dries_86 wrote:

I would go with a Radeon 9800 Pro or a MEDION Radeon 9800XXL (can be found cheap on ebay in Europe) for DX9 compatibility. Had a similar card in combination with Athlon XP 2600+ and was a good combo.

Radeon 9250 seems too slow for your cpu to me and you would loose alot of performance.

hmm this looks like an interesting deal, it looks like a rebranded MSI 9800, I remember the 9800PRO from MSI with the green PCB being popular at the time but I also remember some complaints about the cooler perhaps (well the reference was also pretty bad) and maybe about the PCB quality being inferior, still, seems like there is no shortage of supply of this cards on ebay, one to keep in mind, excluding the DOS scrolling problem I was always a fan of the R3x0 cards, but, I'm not sure DX9 is all that big of an advantage for such card.

alvaro84 wrote:

Roman78 wrote:

I have a Radeon 9250 from MSI

Low profile with full height back plane, "MSI shaped" heat sink? That one has a lot of low resolution VESA video modes like 320x200/240, 400x300, 512x384, all in 8, 15, 16 and 32-bit flavors, and it even fakes to have no more than 16MB of memory, it's just great for late DOS era scene stuff. It's an absolutely insignificant, cheap card - but a gem in disguise 😀

As for its Windows performance, I don't know yet. I should install W98 on my Tualatin rig which has the card.

Yes indeed that card 😁 At this moment it is also in my Tualatin machine 😁

I don't know how far back in time i would go. As noticed, i also have a Tualatin 1.4Ghz and a Pentium 1. I thought i replace the Tualatin but keep the Pentium1 for Older games. Pre 1995.

/edit: just won an auction Radeon 9600 Pro on ebay for 5 Euros plus 5 euro PP.