Reply 20 of 40, by PC-Engineer
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I would recommend a contemporary graphics card. Later graphics cards have a high driver overhead because they were born into systems with significantly more RAM and CPU power. There are then such nice effects as that these graphics cards perform rather poorly in comparison with slow CPUs and then scale very far with CPU performance and perform quite well again with fast CPU.
The best option for your 233MMX are the Voodoos as matze79 has already written (V2, V3, Banshee). Alternatively still for PCI: G200/G450, Riva128/TNT1, Permedia 2, Voodoo1 whereby the Permedia 2 and the Voodoo1 mark the lower limit performance-wise and the others also demand their compromises and are also not cheap. For fast, compatible DOS, V3 and Banshee would be first choice. I would look for these variants in your place and accept the surcharge for it.