Anyone got tips for a good PCI-based GPU for Socket 7 mobos? · 3:54am Jan 11th, 2018
'Cause seriously. At this point, 50% of the cards I own are GPUs that I found to be incompatible due to driver issues.
Namely, I suspect that the drivers use instructions that aren't found on Pentium/K6-era hardware.
GPUs that I've tried:
Nvidia Geforce Fx5200 PCI (BSOD upon loading anything utilizing hardware acceleration)
ATi Rage XL PCI (Works well, but doesn't have enough VRAM for really anything outside of games from the early 90's. 8mb of VRAM is hardly anything compared to 32 and 64mb cards from the late 90's)
Nvidia Geforce GT 610 PCIe adapted to PCI (I honestly expected this to fail anyways, and it did. I had to boot in safe mode to get out of the boot loop.)
ATi Radeon x1300 PCI (Drivers install fine, enters boot loop after rebooting.)
Nvidia Geforce Fx5500 AGP (Works in the Pentium 2 system I have, but BSODs on a K6. Likely due to missing CMOV instructions used in the driver.)
S3 Virge/DX PCI (Works perfectly, but pointless to use for anything other than basic games due to horrid DirectX and lack of OpenGL support)
Cirrus Logic... something ISA (It's a freakin' 2D card meant to play media and display pretty pictures. I can play Minesweeper though.)
My current thoughts are to try the ATi RAGE 128, ATi Radeon 7000, Nvidia Geforce 4 MX400, and maybe a Geforce 256.
The only problem is that the motherboard I use for Socket 7 doesn't have an AGP slot, and the only company I know of that made PCI to AGP adapters spits a 404 page now when I search the card.
