Buying the best AGP video card

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unknow user

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I'm going to be upgrading to a SOLTEK SL-XP865G-3IG socket 478 motherboard. I want this motherboard because it has 3 ISA slots (one of my cards is for a special backup unit, which I still use). Anyway, here are the spec’s that I’m going to put in this motherboard:

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz w/ Hyper Threading: Cache L1/12K+16K; L2/1MB
Ultra PC3200 1GB memory module
160GB WD (or Maxtor) Hard Drive

My problem is choosing a video card. I want one that will allow me to play any game I want. This new motherboard will support AGP 8X. I was thinking about going with a GECUBE RX800XT -256M AGP Radeon Video Card, but many online sites (like tomshardware) show eVGA 256-A8-N507 Geforce 7800GS Video Card is better in benchmark tests. I want to know why the Geforce is better then the Radeon?

Here's a list of video cards I've been looking at for the past few days (I'm open to anything else).
 
I want to know why the Geforce is better then the Radeon?
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Are you implying Radeon shoudl be better then Geforce by default?

The 7800GS is the best AGP card available at the moment, so that would be your best bet.
 
Technically the Radeon should be better, it has a faster core clock (running at 520MHz) and has 16 pixelpipelines, but in benchmark tests it doesn’t perform as well as the 7800GS. I just want to know because both the Radeon and Nvidia are going to cost about $300?
 
unknow user said:
Technically the Radeon should be better, it has a faster core clock (running at 520MHz) and has 16 pixelpipelines, but in benchmark tests it doesn’t perform as well as the 7800GS. I just want to know because both the Radeon and Nvidia are going to cost about $300?
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It's because the 7800 GS supports SM3 and has a better architecture.
 
Change your motherboard selection and get a PCI express video card. The newer technology is cheaper than the old.
 
Jet said:
Change your motherboard selection and get a PCI express video card. The newer technology is cheaper than the old.
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Which would mean upgrading motherboard, which would inevitably cost more anyway.
 
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