You can find them readily on eBay But you’ll pay for that.The last couple I bought, I found earlier this year on shopgoodwill.com. IIRC I paid around $15 for a used one & $30 for a NIB one shipped.
Might be a bit more as we creep up on the holidays but they’re not too hard to find & can be an extra value if included in one of the many bundle auctions that show up on SGW. I also picked one up on CL Years ago with a 23” ACD monitor purchase.
Sounds like you don’t have an ADC monitor though, so a new gpu makes the most sense.
I think you may be confusing my post with the active DVI-to-ADC adapter. Those are incredibly easy to find(never seen fewer than 8 on ebay) and while they do average about $40, they offer no assistance to me as I don't own an ADC monitor. I need to go FROM the ADC port TO a DVI display.
I'm just wondering why you went with a card that has an ADC port and not one of the many available for Mac (stock or flashed) that have two DVI ports or DVI/VGA?
There are a couple of early G5 cards that did have ADC, but for the most part a card with ADC is not an upgrade to me in light of all the other cards available.
If price was the issue, well a Radeon 9200 has DVI and VGA. If you're looking for dual DVI then a FireGL X3 (flashed) can be had for a decent price and there are some NVIDIA dual DVI cards out there that can also be flashed. There's also a G5 version of the 9800 Pro that has dual DVI that can be used (need to tape pins, like with the Fire GL).
I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound critical, I just don't see a point in using an ADC card, much less it being an 'upgrade'.
Hey, no offense taken.
Breaks down like so:
*I was not comfortable using any sort of flashed/modded/taped card. That sort of thing has traditionally not worked out for me(though I did have a pencil-modded AMD that ran great for YEARS). For this project, whatever I bought had to be stock.
*So, the card I bought had an ADC port and a DVI port - silly me I thought I'd just use the DVI port(I only needed 1 monitor). For whatever reason, its DVI but only outputs a VGA signal. Go figure.
**When I made the decision to buy an ADC/DVI card, I believed the adapter could be located with a reasonable amount of searching and a little patience. I'm dumbfounded at how wrong I was.
*When I installed the current card(Geforce 4) there was some minor damage to to the AGP port, the Mac is old and the plastic in places quite brittle. The fit was also let's call it "snug"; getting the card installed was a very scary process(and that's coming from a guy who takes apart and rebuilds computers for fun). So when I did learn that the DVI port was a bust, I was in a tough way. I didn't want to risk damaging the computer, and I was still back at square one with finding a factory-stock dual DVI card(as far as I could tell, one was never made for the G4).
So anyway, that's the carnival of failures that led me here. I mean, it's not overwhelmingly vital; its not like I havem't got a small collection of VGA screens. But I'd like to have the mac tied in to my KVM setup so I can use it with my usual monitor/keyboard/mouse, and that requires a digital signal. I DO in fact have a VGA-to-DVI Scaler amongst my eclectic collection, but for various reasons too complex to get into that's limited to 1024x768.
So, in conclusion, yes I have kind of painted myself into a corner, but here I am.
