First post, by DNSDies
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I recently came into a 386/486 hybrid that has a footprint for a VLB slot that isn't populated. I'm planning to install a slot for it (I have a few), and I'm debating on what to install in this new fast slot on what I plan to be a 386DX 40mhz machine.
Option 1: QD6500a VLB controller card. The obvious bonus being very fast drive speed, but also using XT-IDE to take full advantage of it. The negative to this is being stuck with an ISA video card. Luckily, I have a WD90C31 1MB ISA card, so it'll at least be the fastest slow video card.
Option 2: Continue to use an ISA controller card, and instead put a Diamond Stealth 32 VLB (Tseng ET4000/w32p). Benefits - very fast video card, but detriment of slow ISA controller card and needing to keep a network card to boot the XT-IDE bios.
What should I do?