| the 5700LE is a heavily stripped down version of the 5700 card. It's quite likely that your friends 5600 is a full featured 5600 compared with your entry level 5700 and that is why it's outperforming you. though cpu speed does have an impact on HL2, with that level of graphics card it is more likely that they will be the limitting factor.
I also doubt running on agp 4X is it either, even though agp 8X is double the speed this probabally only accounts for a ~5% performance increase, just like pci-e makes very little differance over agp 8x inspite of it's increased bandwidth
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