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Summary: Voodoo5 5500 AGP - Good in its time...
Review: In its day the Voodoo 5 5500 video card was a great card. But times have changed since 3DFX went under and was bought out by Nvidia. As of Dec 2000, there is no official driver support for the 3DFX line to include the 5500 AGP. The graphics are still outstanding today Jan 2002 but the card is showing it's age and is nowhere near as fast as the Nvidia Geforce line-up. The un-official driver support is terrible and will cause more problems with your graphics card than you care to deal with ( I know!). If you still decide to use this card be warned.....there is NO drivers that work well with windows XP! Still, it is a good card that runs well on any windows operating systems before Win XP. As long as you don't mind cutting edge tech and blazing speeds on newer games.
Rating:
Summary: 3dfx is gone, take care
Review: NVidia (of GeForce fame) has purchased 3dfx (maker of this card) - and NVidia has no plans to continue the Voodoo product line. Could still be a great 3D card, at the right price, and if you don't mind no support...
Rating: 
Summary: 3dfx IS GONE...This is their final product!
Review: As anyone can see on their website (www.3dfx.com), 3dfx went under. I strongly suggest you try as hard as you can to get your hands on this piece of hardware. It's simply a wonderful board. The graphics are wonderful, likely because of 3dfx's solid engineering. Everything this company did was great. It was a major shock to discover this company will be gone shortly. As for the hardware, it is excellant. There is one downside (and this is why I didn't give it a perfect score), it has no S-Video out like the V3 3000 AGP. After this one I don't know who i'll buy my graphics cards from. The great company that was 3dfx will not be there.
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