The FX5700 is a lot faster then the integrated intel 865G but has no support for hardware acceleration on flash videos. But still a faster card and might be useful for other things
I have the 865G chipset on one of my 478 boards with a P4 3GHz also and it's rubbish.
So, what I'm gathering about AGP video cards is that they're only really an improvement if you do a lot of modern 3d engine gaming.
I don't do any of this type of gaming AT ALL. The only gaming I might do on this PC is emulate Amiga and C64 games with UAE and VICE to play games for those platforms. With emulation, I'm learning that the graphics card would help at all over the integrated chipset (even the integrated chipset is not really being pushed), right?
What I really use my computer for is video editing (Sony Vegas), music recording and 3d modelling/rendering software (older software). Also desktop publishing / 2d graphics - this includes a LOT of running WinUAE to use Amiga graphics software.
Would installing this AGP card I found in the garbage really improve anything in regard to these productivity applications? The system works well now so I don't want to fix what aint broken unless I knew I was going to get a speed bump in using video editing software or something (for instance, rendering of video in Sony Vegas). If the only advantage from an AGP card would be to gaming then I won't even bother.
Thanks in advance for any input you guys may have. Learning a lot here.