Budget PCI graphics card for a Pentium III based Compaq Presario
Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well. I recently acquired a few older computers that someone was getting rid of. One of them happens to be a very nice HP Compaq 8200 Elite system, and I'm looking forward to getting that one cleaned up and put to work. One of the other computers was an old Compaq Presario from the Windows ME era. It was a nice machine at one point, but the previous owner had stored it either outside or in a dirty garage, and the case had been beaten up a bit. I decided that the case wasn't worth trying to salvage (even if it wasn't so beaten up I wasn't sure that I wanted to put it in my vehicle) so I pulled all the worthwhile parts out of it. This left me with the following:
Stock Compaq motherboard
Intel Pentium III (866MHz) Socket 370
128MB RAM
PCI ethernet card (likely 10/100)
I ditched the power supply as it was pretty filthy, and the previous owner had already removed the hard drive. The board has 4 PCI slots, and I'm not sure what video card I should get for it. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that wouldn't be too expensive?
Stock Compaq motherboard
Intel Pentium III (866MHz) Socket 370
128MB RAM
PCI ethernet card (likely 10/100)
I ditched the power supply as it was pretty filthy, and the previous owner had already removed the hard drive. The board has 4 PCI slots, and I'm not sure what video card I should get for it. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that wouldn't be too expensive?
Comments
What do you plan on using the machine for? Vintange DOS games? 95/98 games? 2K/XP/7? File server?
You're putting 98 on it, but what are you doing with it? Do you need a card that can play directx 9 games? is directx 8 good enough? Do you just need to accelerate DOS based games like Doom and call it a day?