Need upgrade path advice & info on AGP4 / 8 performance

[Strief]

I have an older rig I've been gaming on for a few years ... MSI KT3 Ultra Mobo (only AGP 4 support), GF4200, AMD 2000, 1gb ram, etc.

I've seen the game on a 6600GT and was quite impressed (of course the system was PCI-E, 2gb ram, faster cpu etc).

I'm sort of at a pinnacle of a decision point here:
upgrade path 1) Go replace mobo, cpu, and vid card.
upgrade path 2) Buy a 6600gt, 6800 or 7800 (or some ATI card, although they have had notorious crash bugs in WoW) as a bandaid, and wait a year (or so?) for DirectX10 or whatever 'next gen' bus/standard takes over.

Is AGP 4 to AGP 8 a big step? Am I really gimping an AGP8 video card by only running it at AGP4?

 

[dvdpiddy]

Damn you beat me to the punch. I would wait till next year and get a brand new system.

 

[Strief]

Damn you beat me to the punch. I would wait till next year and get a brand new system.

So basically I can pick up a dx9 eyecandy card for around 200CDN, and then wait on the new system until a I see a big change I want to jump on .. nice.

When is dx10 supposed to come out?

thx guys!

 

[dvdpiddy]

First off thank prozac and second dx10 should be out this summer or winter.

 

[Heyyou27]

The first Direct X10 cards should be out in July/August, but Vista won't be out until 2007 for Direct X10 to really be used.