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I was an FSAA skeptic. Now that I've actually seen the Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing that the Voodoo5 can do, I am amazed! Even old games that looked jagged and dated on a GeForce look great with the Voodoo5's FSAA. With the updated drivers on 3dfx's website, you can also adjust the LOD bias to make blurry textures look crisp and sharp. This card will make all of your existing games look new all over again. The Voodoo5's image quality is better than any other card you can buy. It may not be quite as fast for Quake3 as a GeForce2 GTS, but the image quality is absolutely amazing. No more jaggies, no more pixel popping, and new life for your old games.

This is got to be the best graphics card you can buy for the PCI bus. I'm glad 3dfx (now bought out by nVidia) decided to produce a state of the art card for both AGP and PCI. On top of that made the performance very close to the AGP. With Voodoo5 3d graphics, 64 MB Ram, 350Mhz Ramdac and the most support for games, you can't go wrong.

This is a good card and better than I expected. I previously had a original voodoo1 (Monster 3d). This was an add on card only though so you needed to have that along with a 2d card (which was a Matrox Millenium II). So far I am impressed with the quaility of the voodoo5 PCI. Espically now since the price is only 179-200 dollars. Its worth spending the extra to goto the Voodoo5. My system is a PPro 200, and didn't really want to go out and buy a whole new system to play just a couple of games, so I got this card. The 3d and drivers are very good, and the 2d portion seems like it is good also. The image seems sharper and more clear then it previously did. I tried the voodoo5 with Jane's USAF combat simulator and was surprised how smooth it ran, giving the heavy system requirements. I'd say if you need a good 3d card and good 2d as well this is a great buy. Its especially nice if you don't have an AGP slot and still want to get great performance with a PCI.

I had to return this card because it wouldn't fit in the available computer space. So I really did not have a chance to use it. I have an HP 8760C. The card is about 10 inches long. So just make sure you measure the available space.

I love this card i upgraded my intel card to this. 1 word AMAZING. BUY IT