Hello!

This thread is for all the PC gamers of this forum. Recently, I've been upgrading a computer that I've owned since childhood. It's an IBM Aptiva from 1996 with a 120MHz pentium processor and some kind of integrated graphics. I've installed a new harddrive, and it now has an additional 8 gigabytes (amazing!) to store windows 95 games on.

Recently, I found an old GeForce 2 MX card in a scrap computer, and googling it showed that it has drivers that support windows 95.

I've been thinking about getting a voodoo card to install in it, but now I'm really curios about if this card would work in it. It also supports S-video so that's kind of awesome.
What do you guys think? Should I go for it, or just wait unitl I find a cheap Voodoo2 or 3? Would it slow down my computer to a crawl if it's too new?

That sounds pretty old. Does the motherboard have an AGP slot? I think the old GeForce 2 MX needed an AGP slot.

Voodoo 3... Oh wow. The memories. Legendary cards.

This. You may be stuck with PCI or ISA slots on that motherboard. AGP first came out in 1996, so it is possible you have one, but unlikely.

The GeForce card fits into a PCI slot. The Aptiva itself has three PCI slots and three ISA, slots, but one PCI slot is obstructed by the sound card, that is really tall for some reason.
Then it seems like the PCI slots are positioned so that the graphics card monitor out wouldn't be reachable from outside the computer.

I think I'll add some pictures to the thread :)

Yes! I'm thinking it might be worth the wait and money just to have one of those cards. I mean my PC is from that era and Voodoo is just a really cool name for a graphics card.

This is how it all looks.
I checked and the GeForce will fit into the motherboard and will be reachable outside the case.
So the only thing I'm worried about is that a PC from 96/97 might not be able to handle a graphics card from 2002. There are drivers for Windows 95, but perhaps the OS won't be the bottleneck.

The computer is running a pentium processor clocked at 120Mhz. I'm not sure how much RAM it has.

I imagine the CPU will be a bottleneck in that. From memory most 3D games from around that era recommended 166-233MHz Pentium processors. You may be able to run the likes of Quake II, Half-Life, MDK and the original Tomb Raider games though.

If it fits and it has drivers though I don't see any reason the build shouldn't work with the GeForce 2MX.

I don't think the PCI bus is compatible with the geforce 2.. It needs a newer version then your system probably has

So even if it fits on the motherboard, it won't work?