I did the same thing, it was a great budget card. vquake was awesome, plus you were able to use Direct3D inside of Windows which the first 3Dfx cards didn't do. It also came with a Descent clone called Forsaken on the demo CD, which was the first colored lighting I had ever seen in a game, and was pretty amazing.
Ironically, the Verite chips didn't handle certain VGA modes that well, so DOS games like Doom were pretty choppy.
Although, eventually, when the miniGL port was released, it was clear that the V2x00s were sub-par, even with 24 bit support and hardware z-buffer. Eventually the voodoo2 just put the nail in the coffin. But for a time, little geek me had fun pushing the hardware limits, even though I knew nothing of thermal management at the time.
Indeed, I remember some DOS games having some... stutters? For lack of a better term. But at that point I was hooked on 3D and Windows 9x, so it didn't matter too too much.
AA was an underappreciated feature at the time. You didn't really notice it unless you had quite a sharp monitor! Everybody else just got antialiasing "for free" thanks to their blurry screens. =)
It's funny to think these days how you use to have to buy sound cards (and hardware DVD decoders, but this came later)
I think I used a discrete sound card even later on into the Pentium III days because of either driver issues or quality of the on-board ones.