zapbuzz wrote on 2021-07-16, 18:17:
a 64 - 128mb agp 4x by nvidia is fantastic and blows voodoo away really voodoo's are really really rare and expensive; Ati voltages clamp theirs down to 2x speed on discreet passive cooled cards which is more widely available and 4x is not much better than 2x. (2x does give 4x sideband) and still blow voodoo away.
PATA hard disk of 32gb for udma66 because its the biggest natively supported by 9x platforms with the best data seek rates without RAID etc.
I'm not sure why people have put down SiS but they probably don't even think about power supply which without explination I will recommend 500 watts as 75% is typical normal throughput for PSU's the written rating is the absolute peak (never happens)
I have Voodoo 2 and can confirm it's way overhyped and not worth the money nowadays (got mine for 2€). I get about 3100 3Dmarks with it, while I get 4700 with Geforce FX5600. It's only good for games that would fail to work on FX5600 properly or DOS games with 3Dfx support. Voodoo 2 performance is ok for 640x480 and even then it's nothing stellar. Resolution and color depth has almost no effect on FPS in 3D Mark 99 with FX5600 because it is CPU bottlenecked.
Just as another poster noted, win98 works with drives up to 120GB. I use 80GB drive as 120GB is very rare. You can have single 80GB partition for DOS.
SiS is disliked because it became very rare in P4/AthlonXP era, overtaken by Intel, VIA, nForce chipsets. It was slightly slower than the former. Not by much but with nonexistent price difference it makes little sense to buy it.
Pentium III 900E, ECS P6BXT-A+, 384MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 128MB, Voodoo 2 12MB, 80GB HDD, Yamaha SM718 ISA, 19" AOC 9GlrA
Athlon 64 3400+, MSI K8T Neo V, 1GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT 512MB, 250GB HDD, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS