To be honest you are better off building or finding a second system like a pentium 4 rig but you can just find a office toaster as they are still dirt cheap or even free like all those Dells to use with those two higher end cards you have.

That bad huh? I would ultimately consider getting a second PC down the line, but right now I just don't have the room for anything more. I was hoping something like an FX5500 would be acceptable for Quake2 etc.

You could just use what you have and when you want to run glide games consider giving nglide a try with the 9800. This is why I like having multiple system as I get to have choice.
Voodoo 2 isn't a bad option but they are getting to be expensive and there are fewer and fewer cheap ones around.

You could try an Nvidia Quadro4 100 NVS. It's basically a PCI version of the GeForce4 MX440 SE, geared for workstation use. I have a couple and they handle Windows 98 games well. The silent cooler is nice, and power consumption is very low. Forceware 45.23 is a good fit for these.

There aren't too many on eBay at the moment, but I've seen large lots sold for less than $10 a piece.

Hilariously enough I ran a PCI Geforce FX 5500 for the longest time, with an early Pentium 4. It worked... Mostly. At lower res and with DX8.1 or older games.

Edit: I also ran Half-Life on a PCI Radeon 9250 and that ran okay.

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In an ideal world I'd get a PCI Voodoo3...

What's the benefit of the PCI version versus AGP?

Being able to use it on newer AGP4x/8x motherboards (typical no-Voodoos-allowed territory) and non-AGP motherboards of course 😀