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Best PCI video card for a Socket 7 Pentium 200mmx computer

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First post, by biessea

Posted on 2019-10-24, 13:11

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Hi there, dears Very Old Gamers On New Systems, I really appreciate this forum and I have learned a lot here.

Some weeks ago I begun with a nice mission to revive a very old DOS/Windows system and finally I accomplished it!

I'm the guy that have a Nforce 2 chipset in the other system and I wanted to find an audio card to play in real DOS environmment but at the end I cannot find any card that work.

So I made this system cause a friend gave me this old old system.
And now I want to know which video card use on this one.
The system is this:
Pentium 200mmx
96mb Ram Simm
Creative AWE64 Value
Vtech with i430 chipset

I have three PCI card to use, all perfectly working.

- Creative Voodoo Banshee 16mb
- Ati Radeon 7000 64mb ddr
- Ati Radeon 9250 256mb ddr

I want to use this system for DOS Games and Windows 98 SE games too.

Which videocard do you reccomend me?

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Reply 1 of 8, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2019-10-24, 13:18

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banshee, ez call

Reply 2 of 8, by appiah4

Posted on 2019-10-24, 13:39

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Banshee for sure.

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Reply 3 of 8, by biessea

Posted on 2019-10-24, 14:13

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I'm sorry but I cannot understand, can you explain me why?

Radeon 7000 and radeon 9250 expecially are more powerful video card and have a lot of vram more than the banshee.

Expecially the radeon 9250 has 4pixel shaders, 4 TMUs and 4 ROPs when the banshee has only 1? And expecially the radeon 9250 is manufactured on 150nm when the banshee is 350nm?

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Reply 4 of 8, by imi

Posted on 2019-10-24, 14:17

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what game are you going to play on a 200mmx that will benefit from all that GPU power?

banshee is better for dos compatibility and has glide.

Reply 5 of 8, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2019-10-24, 15:26

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Radeon 7000 and radeon 9250 expecially are more powerful video card and have a lot of vram more than the banshee.

ATi drivers are not optimal for such slow CPU and will run horribly.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 6 of 8, by derSammler

Posted on 2019-10-24, 15:44

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Even the Banshee can not be fully exhausted by a 200 MMX. You already have a 1.5-year technology gap here.

Reply 7 of 8, by SSTV2

Posted on 2019-10-24, 19:52

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Banshee, no doubt.

Reply 8 of 8, by biessea

Posted on 2019-10-25, 12:56

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Ok, thank you a lot.

Explaination understood.

Thanks dears.

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