To be quite honest you are much better off just building a cheap intel/amd rig from scratch, and you'll get significant performance gains. Most motherboards nowadays don't even have AGP ports anymore, it is such a dead-end for technology. I remembered a year back looking for decent AGP motherboards and having little/no success.
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AGP Leadtek Winfast 256 meg Video Card
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I've never even heard of that kind of card. Is it Nvidia or ATI based?
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At this stage, I'm leaning more towards a dual core/Intel build - in the light of the fact that my dad's current intel quadcore beastie is a pleasure to use.
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Stick with a dual core. No more, no less. Unfortunately software still hasn't quite caught up with hardware; when I built my dual core rig a few years back I thought by now things would be making full use of it but it still isn't the case. Unless you are doing heavy video encoding or workstation things, two cores shall suffice for a long time IMO.
AMD/ATI is releasing derivatives of their wonder 4800 series GPU's. The price market for both of them is in the sub $100 range and they should be released either next week or in two weeks. I'd say pair one of those bad boys (which perform extremely well for 'budget' chips) with a nice intel set or AMD depending on pricing and you can have a great build.