98 Guy Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 The following is a list of AGP and PCI-e cards showing current price and availability as quoted to me by a parts vendor.Given a motherboard (such as the VIA-based Asrock) where there is a working PCIe bridge being shown by device manager, and also given the right hacked or modded driver, then:Which of these are known to work (or to NOT work) on 98se Asus EN7300GT pci-e Fanless -- $69 - Readily AvailableXFX 7600GT pci-e -- $119 - Limited quantitieseVGA 7600GT pci-e -- $119 - Limited quantitiesAsus EAX800XT pci-e -- $579 or $749 - Different versions - LimitedXFX 6800GT AGP -- $289 - Very LimitedAlbatron 6800GT AGP -- $359 Very LimitedBFG 7800GS AGP -- $279 Readily AvailableSparkle nVIDIA 6200 Ultra 128MB AGP - $49I would think the Sparkle 6200 would work no problem, but it would be my last resort because it's a low-end card.I'd rather try the Asus EN7300GT or eVGA7600GT but the messing around I did about a year ago with basically any PCI-e boards on the Asrock motherboard didn't work.The ATI board above is crazy-priced so it's not an option. What sub-$200 ATI boards (PCIe or AGP) should I look at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroOS Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Hi 98 Guy,For nVidia cards, see this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=97140Official ATI drivers support up to Radeon 9800 series: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/98me/radeonaiw-98me.htmlNot sure about newer ATI cards and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig Von Cookie Koopa Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 All cards will run under any OS, or Command line if you have the drivers installed. You need the drivers ( or files that can be used as drivers ) to run any card. Even the most expensive cards can run in 98, 95, Unix, Linux, Sun, and any other you can think of. You also need to know how to iinstall the drivers.Most cards have installation guides with them. If it can't install the card then it is a proprietary card made to push you into buying the next OS installation or is not made for that OS.More recent proprietary cards have all kinds of tools that you would have to use like temperature agent, speed guide, and over clocking options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dz1 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 It really depends on the motherboard you are using. One motherboard i tried, that claimed it was win98 compatible, and which I think had a VIA chipset, did not run any 6 or 7 series geforce pci-e graphics card I tried on it. Another motherboard, and also the one I am currently using, has an nvidia chipset and works with ALL of the pci-e graphics cards that didn't work in the other motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dz1 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 (edited) All cards will run under any OS, or Command line if you have the drivers installed. You need the drivers ( or files that can be used as drivers ) to run any card. Even the most expensive cards can run in 98, 95, Unix, Linux, Sun, and any other you can think of. You also need to know how to iinstall the drivers.Most cards have installation guides with them. If it can't install the card then it is a proprietary card made to push you into buying the next OS installation or is not made for that OS.More recent proprietary cards have all kinds of tools that you would have to use like temperature agent, speed guide, and over clocking options.I have experimented with win98 compatible motherboards with pci-e slots and can tell you that what you say is not true. At least one win98 compatible motherboard I know of will not work with pci-e graphics cards no matter what drivers you use with them. Edited April 29, 2008 by dz1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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