THE QUeSTION IS: DO ANY OF THESE MORE MODERN PCI CARDS WORK INSIDE A POWERMAC G4? for either os X or os 9?curious about this card as ive found that it exists but not found it references positively or negatively anywhere else
ATI Radeon HD2400 PRO *PCI* from december 2007/early 2008
RV610 GPU chip
http://www.gpureview.com/radeon-hd-2400-pro-pci-card-561.htmlfound this card its PCI not AGP
i wonder if this would work in a G4 as it has 525mhz core clock
6gb/s mem thruput!
forgot to mention its for sale for 8 dollars too lol
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-HD-2400-256-MB-PCI-Graphics-adapter-/261392292595?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item3cdc31daf3on the same topic of more recent modern PCI based adapters
heres another
GF108 fermi GPU chip from 2010
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-ZT-40605-10L-GeForce-GT-430-Fermi-512MB-64-bit-DDR3-PCI-VIDEO-CARD-/170987614158?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item27cfa7efcehttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E-IOw6Q7BNMJ:www.gpureview.com/geforce-gt-430-card-644.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-aremember there was a geforce 6 series PCI card too
using NV43 gpu chip
Geforce 6200 PCIhttp://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007708%20600007853&IsNodeId=1&name=PCIthey still sell this 6200 pci card!! even to this day..
other models still for sale **IN PCI FORMAT** (not pci-express):
quick look at some facts of the other "PCI" cards for sale on newegg:
Geforce FX5200, NV34 @ 250 MHz, 6.4GB/sec
Geforce 6200, NV43 @ 300Mhz, 8.8 GB/sec
radeon X1300, RV515 @ 450 MHz, 8 GB/sec
Geforce 8400GS, G84 @ 567 MHz, 5.328 GB/sec
Geforce 9400GT, G96 @ 550 MHz, 25.6 GB/sec
Geforce GT210, ?
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187211Geforce GT610, ?
radeon HD5450, "Cedar" @650 MHz, ?
if these Fx5200, + 6200 PCI cards are known to work in powermac g4's for mac osx
whats to stop them from running these other newer cards?
here
http://compareindia.in.com/specification/graphic-cards/zotac-geforce-gt520-pci-x1/252742is a GT520 @ 800mhz clock!
Quadro FX 600 PCI *DUAL DVI ON A PCI GFX CARD*http://www.gpureview.com/quadro-fx-600-pci-card-495.htmlNV34 gpu @ 275MHz, 7.85gb/s (qualifies for core image/quartz extreme i think? slightly better then an FX5200)
http://www.pny.com/products/quadro/fx/600fxPci.asphttp://www.pny.com/products/quadro/brochures/QuadroFX_Brochure.pdf