PCIe GeForce 7300GT in a 733MHz Quicksilver?

[dkvasnicka]

Hi fellas,

i have an old Power Mac G4 Quicksilver running at 733MHz and I also have one unused PCI Express GeForce 7300GT -- a PC version.

These seem to me as impossible to combine, but still I'd like to ask whether is it somehow possible to put a PCIe card to an old Quicksilver...? (some kind of freaky conversion gizmo perhaps? )

And if it is, can I flash the PC GeForce using the quicksilver? (I've got no PC desktop in my house -- could it be done through some linux live CD or something like that...?)

If this all is a nonsense, I'll just sell that card thing...

 

[Pressure]

No can do.

AGP is not, in any way, compatible with PCI-Express.

 

[dkvasnicka]

Well, but the board has PCI slots AFAIK... so some PCI to PCIe adapter maybe? Just asking, really, I want to be sure it really is not possible before I get rid of the thing

 

[Pressure]

Well, but the board has PCI slots AFAIK... so some PCI to PCIe adapter maybe? Just asking, really, I want to be sure it really is not possible before I get rid of the thing

The problem is that PCI is using a parallel bus (and dates back to 1994) while PCI-Express is using a serial bus.

Don't be fooled by the name. They may sound similar but in reality have very little in common.

 

[300D]

It will not work.

 

[zmttoxics]

If you need a Quicksilver card, there are lots of AGP cards that can be had for cheap to be flashed for it, like a 5200 or 6200.