Smack2k
Veteran Member
What would you say best to pair a Voodoo1 PCI card with on a board with AGP and PCI available running a Pentium MMX 200.....for best overall compatibility and video quality in DOS and Windows?
Geeze did pentium 1 boards have AGP? I dont remember it that way, but who knows.
The Voodoo 1 came out around the end of 1996, so go look up video cards that came around that time to about 2 years after.
The original TNT1 didn't come out until 1998 so a TNT2 would be way overkill for any glide games that are limited to 640x480 because of the Voodoo 1.
Duke3d wasn't even a 3d accelerated game (all done in software).
I want this particular machine to be able to play games from 95 through 97-98 basically. I could go with a P2-233, but I dont want this machine being much faster than that.
If I went P2-233, I could still go with the Voodoo1 or I could use a Voodoo2 I have and pair it with a RIVA 128, TNT, or TNT2 Card in the system. Just want to be able to get that range of games playable in the best way on this machine.
I want this particular machine to be able to play games from 95 through 97-98 basically. I could go with a P2-233, but I dont want this machine being much faster than that.
If I went P2-233, I could still go with the Voodoo1 or I could use a Voodoo2 I have and pair it with a RIVA 128, TNT, or TNT2 Card in the system. Just want to be able to get that range of games playable in the best way on this machine.
Sometimes you end up needing more then 1 machine.
I have a P3-500 TNT2 + Voodoo2 SLI for some games, and a P233MMX Riva 128 + Voodoo 1, plus a dozen other systems that go back to a 5150 + CGA up to a FX-8350 + RX580.
Yes some of these cards are getting harder to find and cost a few dollars, but that is just going to get worse not better so pick what you want and use it.
Pentium 200 MMX was just before AGP came to fashion.