Nvidia FX5600 vs ATI Radeon 9700 and 8x AGP?

"Xeromus" wrote in message
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I own a Geforce 4 TI4200 right now. In a month or two I'm going to
upgrade. The asking price for the Radeon 9800 and FX5900 are
ridiculous so they are out of the question. Now, which is better card
for the money, the FX 5600 or the Radeon 9700? It's basically to run
next gen games like half life 2 and Doom 3, etc.

The Radeon 9700 has the wider 256 bit memory interface and is faster than
the GeForceFX 5600 Ultra.

Also, is it worth my while to upgrade my motherboard to one that
supports 8x AGP? mine currently supports up to 4x.

Not unless you upgrade to faster memory as well. By itself AGP 8x means very
little if anything.
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Anders