PowerPie5000 wrote: The V5 is just too slow compared to Geforce & Radeon cards from it's era
Thats not exactly correct. During its time of release the only card capable of beating it was the GeForce 2 GTS, and even then it traded blows, especially when FSAA was enabled. Comparing it to the Geforce 4 MX 440 is not fair in that respect, since the MX 440 is refined technology from almost a couple years later.
For what its worth, if you stuck with Direct X 7 generation games and prior, and Glide titles and Open GL titles from that time line (2000 and prior), the Voodoo 5 is more then fast enough to handle said games. If you plan to run a lot of early Direct X 8 generation games or many titles that used Hardware T&L, you are better off the the MX440.
On a side note since it was mentioned, the X-Men COTA Dos port, I was only able to get that game to display correctly with a S3 Trio64. It would not work correctly with any other card I have on hand, so I cant really fault 3DFX for that one since I couldn't get the game to display on even an S3 Virge or older ATI Mach64 or anything.