First post, by red_avatar
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I got my hands on a very cheap Aopen Xcube in mint condition (EX915 with a Pentium IV 2.8Ghz). I love the form factor but it only has two slots on the motherboard: PCI & PCI-E. No AGP ... .
Now I have a dilemma - I want this Xcube to cover most Windows 98 games that don't run well in Windows XP (I have a different PC for that with a GTX 750 Ti which is remarkably compatible) but here I run into the issue of which graphics card to get.
- Voodoo 3 3000 seems the best solution but I only have the AGP version and the PCI version is €400 ... .
- A Voodoo 2 12MB card (combined with the on-board graphics) ... I have one to spare but honestly it's not ideal for games past 1998 since performance is limited.
- I could go with a late Nvidia PCI card like the FX 5500 but there's all kinds of driver issues there from what I hear & the performance is not that great.
Does anyone have any idea what card might be powerful enough & be compatible enough to fit this build? It doesn't have to be able to run games after 2001 (I'll bank on my XP system for that) but it should run games before that at a decent framerate (such as Drakan for example).
Retro game fanatic.
IBM PS1 386SX25 - 4MB
IBM Aptiva 486SX33 - 8MB - 2GB CF - SB16
IBM PC350 P233MMX - 64MB - 32GB SSD - AWE64 - Voodoo2
PIII600 - 320MB - 480GB SSD - SB Live! - GF4 Ti 4200
i5-2500k - 3GB - SB Audigy 2 - HD 4870