Personally I prefer Matrox cards to be paired with Voodoo2/SLI, in particular a Millenium G200 8MB if you have a AGP based board. But you can use PCI based cards too if you feel soo, like Mystiques or Millenium 1 or 2's. I think the only real downside is video mode support in DOS ?

Also in regards to the CPU, probably a Intel BX based motherboard with an Intel PIII 850 or around there, I may be wrong but I have heard there is a bottleneck if your using a lesser speed CPU up to about that point.

if you use only the Voodoo for 3D take a Matrox like the Millennium or G100, maybe a Tseng ET6000 most say its perfect for dos
if you use the Voodoo only for glide and want a other card for D3D use a nVidia Riva TNT or TNT2

Maf wrote on 12.02.10 at 22:25:13:


ET-6000 was one of the fastest if not THE fastest DOS gaming boards (Think Duke Nukem 3d)

For Voodoo II pairing my choice was the i740- Great opengl support and great drivers from intel.

RaverX wrote on 13.02.10 at 14:27:51:

A Pentium II 350 is indeed of 'the same age' but performance-wise it's underpowered. With the Unreal timedemo at 1024x768 a Pentium III-S 1400 is 13FPS faster than a Pentium II 450 using a Voodoo II 8MB SLI set. A Pentium III or Athlon at 600MHz is probably going to give a noticeable performance increase over the Pentium II 350.

If you use a decent CPU (350MHz+) I don't think it really matters much how fast your 2D-card is. Of course it's cool to have the fastest one (ET6000 is going strong for DOS, indeed) but S3 and Matrox also have good cards. Matrox (G100, G200, G400, etc.) have excellent 2D-image quality compared to other cards of that time.