What video card for a win98 computer?

ya didnt say what video card that ya have now, im assuming that ya got an agp 4x slot, so the radeon 7000 will work, ya can pick one up for $30.00 at newegg.
and while your addit, pick up some cheap memory like a 256 mg stick, ya can get one low as $30.00 bucks. assuming you have the 168 pin sdram? then later down the road when your son gets a stronger computer, ya can use this one as a file server, or a firewall/router(just an idea). hope this helps :?:

now that brings back memories!

Do you mean Celeron 333MHz? Starcraft and the original UT...two of my old favorites. Don't get a Radeon 7000, no hardware T&L. A Radeon 7200 or above is fine. The GF2MX400 or MX4000 would be fine also. I hope that you are getting these cards for next to nothing though.

Here is an AGP GF2Ti for $15 shipped. Still only a DX7 card, but much faster than the GF2MX and Radeon 7200.
http://www.pcdirect.com/product.as [...] ICM-AGP786

If you need PCI, a new MX4000 is probably $35. You may want to look used.

I doubt it. Run CPU-Z for accurate info!
I have a sweet Celeron 400MHz rig here, 512MB RAM, 10GB HD, CD Burner, that I would gladly sell to someone for $150 bucks, complete. (It'll still get a kid through University, y'know?)
But the thing is, it's late-90's and uses PC133 SDRAM. Only double-sided 256MB sticks will work...
Also, the video is probably AGP 2x (or even AGP 1x) as only the newest stuff from circa 2000 (ie. Pentium-III on 133FSB or Athlon) will have AGP 4x.
Go to a local computer shop and they will have many ancient vidcards about - old ATI Rage and GeForce TNT etc...
If you could improve the old rig for minimum $$ that would be great.
Hey I still run massive Unreal Tournament GOTY tournaments on my LAN here! Lots of fun and still runs good on old rigs,
Regards

Ok Im an idiot. It has a PCI Slot. I think Im just gonna do the cheapest Nvidia card available. BTW It must be the 333mhz. I wasnt paying much attention to it. Thanks for the help. Ill let you guys know what I get.

Well, many oems with integrated video maybe. But 440LX and 440BX had AGP. AGP slots on slot 1 mobos were very common/standard.

I didn't think a celeron was available at the speed but I wasn't for sure that was a long time ago. You might check ebay and see what is available as well as newegg and zipzoomfly. Get the cheapest card you can and maybe look on ebay for some used ram. A bump in ram to 256mb would make a huge difference. I know from when I had a system with 64mb ram that even games back then like age of empires would start to choke a little due to lack of ram.

Ok heres the specs of the computer.

General
Type: PC

Recommended Use: Small business, corporate business

Product Form Factor: Desktop

Width: 45 cm

Depth: 45 cm

Height: 12.8 cm

Weight: 11.4 kg

Localisation: French / France

Processor
Type: Intel Celeron 333 MHz

Installed Qty: 1

Max Supported Qty: 1

Upgradability: Upgradeable

Cache Memory
Type: L2 Cache - Pipeline Burst

Installed Size: 128 KB

Mainboard
Data Bus Speed: 66 MHz

RAM
Installed Size: 32 MB ( 0 MB soldered) / 256 MB (max)

Technology: CDRAM

Form Factor: DIMM 168-PIN

Storage Controller
Type: 1 x IDE - integrated

Controller Interface Type: ATA-33

Storage
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy

Hard Drive: 1 x 3.2 GB - standard - ATA-33

Monitor
Monitor Type: None

Graphics Controller
Type: AGP - integrated

Graphics Processor / Vendor: S3 Trio3D

Video Memory: SGRAM

Installed Size: 2 MB / 4 MB (max)

Max Resolution (external): 1600 x 1200 / 8-bit (256 colours) <-- 8O

Video Output Supported: RGB

Input Device
Type: Mouse, keyboard
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I think Im gonna upgrade the ram with one 128mb stick. Then I think I will get a new $30 radeon 7000 video card and be done with it. Thanks guys.

Ok heres what Im getting... All from newegg.

Mushkin PC100 128MB 168Pin Ram Stick

Saphire Radeon 7000 Pci Card Direct-X 7 64MB 64Bit

Foxconn Wireless Adapter Pci 54MBPS

DCT Factory Speakers

I-Rocks Mouse

$70... :-) Its all for the children. LOL.

I found one!

The most important thing is the one item you didn't tell us: what is the motherboard chipset? That can be found out in Device manager. If indeed it is a max 66Mhz Bus then it's an LX (or FX) That means a maximum PII-400. No possible P3 support. (well, a P3 CAN be used but it's underclocked, and may be unstable) If it's a BX then the bus can be 66, 100 Mhz, or even 133 in late hack boards (One of which I'm on now) and the max is a P3 1000, which is rare in Slot 1, 600 and 733 being the most popular P3 slot 1 CPUs. Thus you WOULD have an upgrade option to a $20 P3-600, at a considerable increase in performance.

LX could use up to 512megs of ram, though were often limited to 256 Meg. Only the first 64 megs are cached. BX boards could all use 512 Megs though they could be particular to card type (number of chips, single/double-sided etc.

All component market AT and ATX slot 1 boards had AGP. Small form boards and Dell etc. budget systems often did not.

$70 to upgrade what you have is nice... but consider the alternative that you could concievably rebuild your system for about that.

Just a thought here but using newegg as a guide you could do something like this:
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amd duron 1.8 ghz $28

256mb kingston valueram ddr 266 - $29

asrock k7vm3 atx motherboard with integrated via gfx - $41

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All in all not much more than you're spending now and should fit in whatever case you're currently using. Also, you can use the integrated gfx as dx7 apps should run just fine on it... until you feel like stepping up, and when you do it'll be agp.

... just a suggestion

Pauls right. Even though the 7000 uses T&L via the cpu instead of hardware, most games will not run on a machine that does not support it through hardware.