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If you aren't absolutely certain that you want this card, then it is likely that you won't even be able to use it at all. This is a silly hobbyist product for people who want to tinker and experiment, and not something most people could make us of. I ordered it because I knew what it was, and I want to solder and mod and have fun with it. It is made from low-end parts from the 1990s, rebuilt on a new circuit board. If your kid said that they need a new video card to play apenite legfort or mineblox or whatever their digital daycare is, this card is not at all what they meant. Go for a second hand RX570, or GTX1060, or anything around there that is still driver-supported and will be completely capable of enabling playtime. If you need an old W98 compatible display output just to get the old computer up and running, maybe go for the fairly readily available MX200 or MX440 or MX4000 or FX5200 (or a real GF3 or GF4 if you want a some proper good old gaming and have an AGP slot), a Matrox card, or even a Radeon 9200 or the aforementioned FX series 5500 or 5700 if you want something more modern and XP+Vista compatible that is still PCI. I will be updating this review with benchmarks against similarly powered cards, and some with similar market positioning like the TNT2 M64, tested on an appropriate computer system (likely a 800MHz PentiumIII because it has both AGP and dual-voltage PCI). There is a good amount of info on the web about modding these XL cards for 5V-only operation, from the basic "file off the 3.3V contacts on the edge connector and solder a few series diodes between the 5V supply and the 3V contact" all the way to "design and attach variable regulators between the 5V supply and each chip's voltage input for full control and possible firmware overclocking". I can confirm that this card was capable of outputting a video signal when installed in a motherboard from around 2001 running W98 with 256MB 133MHz SDRAM. It is what it is, a specific product made of salvaged old parts, that is well-documented by the hobby-forum user base to be used for some electronic geekery.

If you don't know the difference between pci and pcie, do NOT but this card, it is not for you. It will not work in most standard consumer motherboards, as it's not designed to. But it will work perfectly in a board with PCI slots