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I am reciting from a vague memory, but here goes - the 8X agp cards and motherboards are both backwards compatible. I think the current 8x cards on the market dont show much if any imporvement on 8x mobos over 4x mobos on current games. This seems to be the case for many new features on video cards. There are still features on the GF3 that havent been used by mainstream games, but they were major selling points a year and a half+ ago. 8x is a good thing, its just too early to see any benefits yet. They definately wont hurt your performance. If someone else has heard different, please let me know.