VOGONS


First post, by Butler2679

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

I have a pc with a 3GHz Pentium 4. I am wondering what the best AGP GPU would be for this CPU. I intend on running Windows ME or XP. If anyone could help, that would be appreciated.

Also I can post photos of the build when I finish it.

Reply 1 of 9, by fitzpatr

User metadata
Rank Member
Rank
Member

As always, if depends on your definition of best. A good period correct card would be a GeForce 6800GT. A Pentium 4 of that speed is well into the Windows XP era.

If using the 9x/ME family of cards, GeForce4 Ti4200, or maybe a higher end GeForce FX.

MT-32 Old, CM-32L, CM-500, SC-55mkII, SC-88Pro, SC-D70, FB-01, MU2000EX
K6-III+/450/GA-5AX/G400 Max/Voodoo2 SLI/CT1750/MPU-401AT/Audigy 2ZS
486 Build

Reply 3 of 9, by Butler2679

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie
fitzpatr wrote:

As always, if depends on your definition of best. A good period correct card would be a GeForce 6800GT. A Pentium 4 of that speed is well into the Windows XP era.

Yes, by best I meant period correct. The 6800 GT sounds very nice. I'll see if I can track one down. Thanks for the suggestion.

agent_x007 wrote:

Best :
X1950 Pro 512MB for XP
6800 GT/FX 5900 series/GF4 TI 4600 for ME.

Also thank you for the suggestions, I'll keep these other cards in mind for any future builds that I may do.

Reply 4 of 9, by Atom Ant

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

HIS HD 4670 IceQ 1GB AGP, but they littls still expensive

My high end of '96 gaming machine;
Intel PR440FX - Pentium Pro 200MHz 512K, Matrox Millenium I 4MB, Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo II 12MB SLI, 128MB EDO RAM, Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold, 4x Creative CD reader, Windows 95...

Reply 5 of 9, by schmatzler

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie
Atom Ant wrote:

HIS HD 4670 IceQ 1GB AGP, but they littls still expensive

And there are no drivers for 9x/ME.

"Windows 98's natural state is locked up"

Reply 6 of 9, by ODwilly

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

ATI 9800 would be pretty period correct and top end. My friend's Dimension 4600 shipped with a 2.8ghz Prescott P4, 512mb of ram and a 9800 Pro 128mb from the factory and was a gaming beast back in the day.

Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1

Reply 7 of 9, by Butler2679

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie
ODwilly wrote:

ATI 9800 would be pretty period correct and top end. My friend's Dimension 4600 shipped with a 2.8ghz Prescott P4, 512mb of ram and a 9800 Pro 128mb from the factory and was a gaming beast back in the day.

I was considering the 9800 Pro, but I need to check the minimum specs for the games I want to run. I may need more VRAM than that GPU has.

Reply 8 of 9, by Butler2679

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie
schmatzler wrote:
Atom Ant wrote:

HIS HD 4670 IceQ 1GB AGP, but they littls still expensive

And there are no drivers for 9x/ME.

Are drivers for XP available?

Also it isn't exactly period correct, but I would be willing to get one.

Reply 9 of 9, by SPBHM

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie
Butler2679 wrote:
schmatzler wrote:
Atom Ant wrote:

HIS HD 4670 IceQ 1GB AGP, but they littls still expensive

And there are no drivers for 9x/ME.

Are drivers for XP available?

Also it isn't exactly period correct, but I would be willing to get one.

4670 is from 2008, AMD kept making XP drivers until 2013 I think.

for ME compatibility, I think you will probably want to limit yourself more to FX and older, or ATI 9800 and older
which are also less bottle necked by the P4.