Perplexed on Upgrade Options

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I'm currently running the system that you'll find in my signature. It's getting a bit long in the tooth for gaming, but I will not have the money to invest in a new system until the fall/winter of this year, but I'd like to get a little boost in performance that will last me until then.

I was looking at the eVGA AGP 6800 GS that's overclocked to 400/1100 for ~$225.

I mostly play Battlefield 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and San Andreas and I currently have to run BF2 in 1024x768 with everything on low and the lighting effects off completely just to keep it playable. I'd like to get a good performance increase with a good IQ increase as well in the game (best case senario being 1280 res medium with 2xAA or something similar). If the card gives a good enough performance jump, I would love to reinstall FEAR and COD2 to see them with the higher IQ levels.

I'm curious if that card (or one similar for around $200) will actually give me much of a performance increase to last me for a good while (with the new games coming out like Oblivion) or if it will be money wasted. Thoughts?
 
Tough call, especially if you are going to upgrade later this year. Putting money into AGP just feels like a losing proposition. It muddles the upgrade path, but you could go to something like an ASRock 939Dual-SATAII later with AGP and PCIe.
 
Yeah, I'm calculating that by next December, I'll be spending about $2000 on an entirely new machine, so I'm just trying to get a card that will get me there a little better than my 9800 Pro will. My main concern is that my processor is more of a bottleneck than my video card.
 
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