Howdy,
I've been poking around for a few weeks trying to figure out a way to add a video card to my PowerMac G5 (late 2005, PCIe, dual core 2.0ghz) and have had no success.
I've got the stock nvidia 6600LE card in the box running 2 monitors; I'd like to add a second nvidia card so that I can run a third monitor. It needs to be PCIe which limits (destroys?) my options. The 6600LE's, if you can find them, go for over $100 on eBay. It should work fine, though, because as I understand it a 16x pcie card will work in an 8x slot.
I'd like to pick up a generic PC nvidia card and flash it to be Mac compatible, but unfortunately every piece of info I can find online is about flashing AGP cards to work in a G4 or older G5, or a Cube. The small amount of PCIe card flashing info I can find is for ATI cards, on themacelite and strangedogs.
I've found the nvidia ROMs but no guide as to which cards will work or utterly fail to work, so I don't want to play russian roulette. Does anyone know of a mid-range card or two (64mb/128mb) that I can look for on eBay to go on my merry rom-flashin' way?
thanks in advance!
I've been poking around for a few weeks trying to figure out a way to add a video card to my PowerMac G5 (late 2005, PCIe, dual core 2.0ghz) and have had no success.
I've got the stock nvidia 6600LE card in the box running 2 monitors; I'd like to add a second nvidia card so that I can run a third monitor. It needs to be PCIe which limits (destroys?) my options. The 6600LE's, if you can find them, go for over $100 on eBay. It should work fine, though, because as I understand it a 16x pcie card will work in an 8x slot.
I'd like to pick up a generic PC nvidia card and flash it to be Mac compatible, but unfortunately every piece of info I can find online is about flashing AGP cards to work in a G4 or older G5, or a Cube. The small amount of PCIe card flashing info I can find is for ATI cards, on themacelite and strangedogs.
I've found the nvidia ROMs but no guide as to which cards will work or utterly fail to work, so I don't want to play russian roulette. Does anyone know of a mid-range card or two (64mb/128mb) that I can look for on eBay to go on my merry rom-flashin' way?
thanks in advance!