I am looking to gradually upgrade my PC bit by bit on a budget. I have been looking at buying MSI GeForce FX5700LE 256MB to replace my old Geforce3 Ti200... Q. Does anyone know if the GeForce FX5700LE runs on the AGPX4 interface? I have had a good look around and it is advertised as just AGPX8. I don't want to upgrade the mobo yet but would like the card to work on my existing system? Many Thanks

yes it will run at 4x if thats all your motherboard suports, to get full throttle of the card u will need a AGP Port 8x tho cant fit my system in

It should work, my old system had an AGP4x GeForce2 on a AGP2x slot, but it makes a slight bottleneck for all that potential the card has. It should still run fast enough, they just say that to promote utilization of all that speed, which is a good idea(to run it in an AGP8x slot). My 5700 LE has compatability problems with Direct3D, so if you can afford it, chuck the thing and go with a more widely supported video card like the 5600 or even better, a 5800. Maybe it's just my card, or eVGA's fault (the manufacturer of mine).

Thanks for your reply. I decided in the end to get the full 5700, and then to upgrade the mobo and processor in the next couple of months. Cheers