Yes, the graphics cards that shipped with all PowerMac G4s since December 1999 are in the single AGP slot. You can't have more than one AGP graphics card, unfortunately. You can get PCI graphics cards pretty cheap, though, as long as you're not too concerned with graphics performance on the extra monitors they provide - Rage 128s have OS X support and they will run basically any VGA or older Apple monitor, and they only cost about $20-$30 on eBay. PCI Radeons are a bit more expensive, but the cool thing about those is that they can support Quartz Extreme (with a hack) and they are actually playable with games, although I don't know of any games that use dual monitors. Also, the PCI Radeon 7000, although slower than the standard, discontinued PCI Radeon, does support dual monitors, so you could have three or four monitors connected to your computer at once.
>Also, the PCI Radeon 7000, although slower than the standard, discontinued PCI Radeon,...
Where did you find / tested that, Luca???
The Radeon 7000 is slightly faster than the Radeon Mac Edition (= Radeon 7200) in 2D because it's clocked a bit faster (183MHz vs 166MHz). But it lacks the Transform & Lightning unit of the R 7200 and so it's slower in 3D where T&L is used.
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>Also, the PCI Radeon 7000, although slower than the standard, discontinued PCI Radeon,...
Where did you find / tested that, Luca???
Originally posted by Bender
>Luca Rescigno:
>Also, the PCI Radeon 7000, although slower than the standard, discontinued PCI Radeon,...
Where did you find / tested that, Luca???
The Radeon 7000 is slightly faster than the Radeon Mac Edition (= Radeon 7200) in 2D because it's clocked a bit faster (183MHz vs 166MHz). But it lacks the Transform & Lightning unit of the R 7200 and so it's slower in 3D where T&L is used.
This is from my own experience as I own both...