What is the best ISA video card? I'm probably going to use this with wfw3.11. Right now I have a 10mbps LAN card, SounbBlaster 16 card, and a ATI mach32 vid card. I also have a big box of SIMM memory, different sized floppy drives, slow cd-rom drives, some HDs. I want to get 486 mobo w/ CPU, Powersupply, so I can use these parts. I'm just wandering if ther eis anything better.

Any ISA Video Card you can lay you hands on is likely to be best you are going to get. ISA was never very good at Video - that's why they devised the Video Local Bus (VLB) and even they will be as rare as hens teeth. VLB is an extension of the ISA bus for Video only. If you get a 486 motherboard there is every chance it will have a PCI slots in which case you can fit a PCI Video card which gives you a lot more options. A PCI video card will work with WfW3.11 Stuart

Yeah the ATI I have and a Diamond vid car both have a VLB? Here is a pic that kinda looks like my vid cards: |---------------------- | | | | |-,__________,---,____,- ^ISA VLB

To use a VLB card you will need a motherboard that has a VLB slot - it wont fit in an ordinary 16 bit ISA slot. Don't forget that ISA only had a bus speed of 8Mhz while PCI is 33Mhz. A huge jump in performance at the time. Stuart

The edge of the VLB card's extra extension will look somewhat like a PCI card edge. The two cards you describe sound like regular 16-bit. Are you actually looking for a 486 motherboard too? It might be easier to find a pentium board than a 486, and cost about the same. Both would fit in a standard AT case. I've seen a few old pentium boards with VLB slots. I probably still have some VLB video cards.

Yeah, the 2 cards I have, have that extension/PCI looking thing. I use to have 2 486 boards, but I thru them away a few years ago. I could use a Pentium board. Can I have one? Also what are the specs on your video cards?

I could probably send you a board. Do you live in the US? Those VLB cards wouldn't work with any boards I have. They have one or two meg of ram. You'd be better off with a PCI card anyway.