Video card compatability

[sphereboy]

I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 AGP card sitting in my PC. I was just wondering if these video cards are able to be installed into a PowerMac G4?

Anyone have any suggestions.

 

[sphereboy]

[bump] trying to get the morning people to see this thread. thanks.

 

[cocopelli]

Ive wondered this also. In theory it should work, since they use a unified driver, but I do not know this to be fact. Obviously you would not get the ADC port, but is that the only thing missing?? I dont know. Anyone else know how the unified drivers work?

 

[Versello]

Wouldn't the firmware have to be flashed?

 

[Sun Baked]

Originally posted by Versello
Wouldn't the firmware have to be flashed?

Bingo...

There's a flash matrix for Nvidia/ATI cards lurking somewhere around that IDs the results you can expect -- some are not very good (the cards that don't have enough EPROM for a universal flash).

Of course a card that work right now, can be rendered quite unstable with a Apple firmware/OS update and/or a driver update.