[G4] Video upgrades for PowerMac G4 dual

[Eric Smith]

You can use a PCI card but AGP is waaay faster than PCI.
You don't say why your ATI Rage is inadequate, but I would
find PCI cards to be inadequate too.
For more information on the differences, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port#Advantages_over_PCI

I upgraded my PM G4 to the Radeon 9800 Pro.

Eric S.

David Gardner wrote:
> I have a PowerMac G4 dual 500mhz with the standard ATI Rage 128 AGP card 
> with a measly 16mb video RAM, which is pretty inadequate. The 
> recommended upgrade is to the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition, but those 
> prices seem pretty high, as well as it being pretty rare, especially the 
> 128mb version.
> 
> Is it possible to forget the AGP slot completely and run a primary video 
> card in one of the PCI slots instead, and if so, which higher end card 
> would work best in this system?
> 
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