Upgrading my 90’s Pc for gaming.

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I have an Aopen AP5C with an AMD K-2 processor and 128MB of RAm and I’m trying to find a pci graphics card for it. Looking for suggestions. Thank you.
 
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Wow, a PCI graphics card is old school. Something used then, not new. I used a Diamond Stealth II S220 to play VQuake, since it didn't do well with GLQuake. It did great on other 3d games though and did both 2d and 3d on the one card. That's a Rendition Verite 2100 based card. The best back then were the Voodoo cards, 1 and 2. Those cards were 3d only, you still needed to use something else for 2d tasks, such as your desktop. So I'd say look for card based on one of those chips. For the fastest 3d, get a Voodoo card. There undoubtedly newer and faster PCI cards, but I can't recommend any since by that point I was using AGP.
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The biggest issue here is the intent of games to play. Knowing the exact model of motherboard will be helpful as well, as the ones that supported the higher end AMD Socket 7 CPUs sometimes had some fussy limitations on which video cards would work and which would not.

Also, what video card do you have in there now, and what are you seeing that is unsatisfactory?
 
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I want to be able to replay my nostalgic games that I still own. Diablo,FF7,Ncaa FB 99, Unreal Tournament, Doom, Duke Nukem. AP5C is the model of the motherboard. I never had a graphics card on it.
 
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Wow, a PCI graphics card is old school. Something used then, not new. I used a Diamond Stealth II S220 to play VQuake, since it didn't do well with GLQuake. It did great on other 3d games though and did both 2d and 3d on the one card. That's a Rendition Verite 2100 based card. The best back then were the Voodoo cards, 1 and 2. Those cards were 3d only, you still needed to use something else for 2d tasks, such as your desktop. So I'd say look for card based on one of those chips. For the fastest 3d, get a Voodoo card. There undoubtedly newer and faster PCI cards, but I can't recommend any since by that point I was using AGP.
 
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I had an AGP card, I think a 7550, that seemed to handle Unreal Tournament, No One Lives Forever, etc, pretty well with a 400MHz K6-2+ and 128 MB RAM.

Doom, Duke Nukem, (and Blood, Redneck Rampage, and similar games) didn't require 3D acceleration at all - they played fine on S3 (Virge?) chip, PCI card, with if I recall 1 (maybe 2?) MB of video RAM. Even built-in video chips should be able to play those games.
 
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