best PCI gpu with windows 98 support?

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hello

i have a 1999 micron millennia PC that runs windows 98SE, and i want to turn it into a vintage gaming machine

it has terrible specs right now. a slot 1 466 MHZ celeron and an 8 MB integrated nvidia RIVA GPU.

the motherboard only has 2 PCI slots and one ISA slot. so there's no way i can get an AGP card

what would be the best PCI card?
 
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So there's no kind of Socket 370 to Slot 1 adapter business going on? Interesting.

Anyway, the 6200 should definitely work since both the card and the chipset utilize PCI 2.1; I checked VOGONS for anyone who might've had success with a similar setup and the conversations revolved around the AGP version, not the PCI version. But there seemed to be an unspoken consensus that the PCI version would work very well on a 440BX board.

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Ahhh, Micron. A name I remember quite fondly. Big ol' beige tower, a Pentium 4, and a GeForce 4 Ti card. The good old days...

Anyway, the best PCI card that works in Win98 is the GeForce 6200, but I'm unsure if your PCI slots are new enough to support one of those cards. Mind taking a photo of your PCI slots so I could check compatibility? A 6200 would be awesome in that system but who knows if it'll work.

By the way, AFAIK Intel stopped making Celerons for Slot 1 after the 433 MHz model, are you sure that CPU is correct?
 
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im too lazy to check right now, but the motherboard model is a micron DR737, you can find pictures of it on google images.

and im sure it's a celeron 466, there's an article about it on Intels website
 
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So there's no kind of Socket 370 to Slot 1 adapter business going on? Interesting.

Anyway, the 6200 should definitely work since both the card and the chipset utilize PCI 2.1; I checked VOGONS for anyone who might've had success with a similar setup and the conversations revolved around the AGP version, not the PCI version. But there seemed to be an unspoken consensus that the PCI version would work very well on a 440BX board.

 
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