Will an 8x agp card work on a 4x agp slot?

[noj_022]

I want to buy a geforce fx5200 128mb which is meant for a 8x agp slot motherboard, but my motherboard's agp slot only support an agp 2.0 & 4x mode. Would there be a problem if i use an 8x agp card on my mobo 4x agp slot. My mobo is (Jetway p4fxcu)
via p4x266e north bridge chipset & via vt8235 south bridge chipset, supports 533mhz sys bus my cpu is p4 2.26 ghz.

[tdbs]

in general it should work fine, the card would just run in 4x mode.
the thing is the fx5200 is such a crappy card [for the lack of a better word], you would be just wasting you money... unless you are running a geforce2 you will see absolutely no difference in performance [beleive me - I tried.. my old MX440 worked better]

[noj_022]

tnx for the reply tdbs.. aside from you're mx440 What kind of agp card will
you recommend that works better in games like (doom3, halflife2 & battlefield 2)
and less cheaper. Which will you prefer an ATI RADEON OR NVIDIA?

[tdbs]

for doom3 [openGL based], and nvidia card would do better.. but it all depends on how much you are willing to spend.
the agp version of the 6600 is great, and even better is the 6600GT. if you do decide to go ati, I think the x300 or x550 or x600 have agp versions
again - all are 8x, but should work in 4x

good luck

[warrior_14_2009]

I have almost the same card an XFX GeForcefx 5200, but mine has 256mb and is AGP 8x as well, but it works great on DOOM 3.