Powermac G3 Video Card?

Is there a special type of video card that goes into a powermac G3 B+W? or will most any PCI video card work? The story goes that I got this G3 with A Bad CPU, no power supply, No cd-drive, and no hard drives. I then Bought A CPU on ebay, Modified an ATX power supply for it, Installed cd/hard drives into it, but as of now I am using the video card from my good B+W.

I was hoping that at least some kind of really cheap video card would work $5-$10 Preferably.

-Eddie

The PowerMac G3 B+W shipped with either a "ATI Rage 128 GL" or a "ATI Xclaim VR" graphics card.

You need to find a Mac specific card in these models. PC video cards will not work.


The cheapest card I could find was this one here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-661-2...o_TV_Cards&hash=item415eb2f9a1#ht_1749wt_1110

Man...I sure hope that everything you installed in this computer was free...because those old B&W Powermac G3's are worth next to nothing...and I do mean next to nothing! They certainly don't have the "cuteness" factor of G3 iMac's!

Like "MacDude121" mentioned...you are pretty much are limited to the video cards that shipped with the B&W Powermac G3's originally. These computers had a 66mhz PCI slot for the video card...and when Apple released the Powermac G4...they mostly went to an AGP video slot (only a couple of the VERY early PM G4's had the PCI slot...and these models used the same video card as the B&W PM G3's).

- Nick

pigoo3 said:

Man...I sure hope that everything you installed in this computer was free

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Everything was indeed free except for the CPU which cost me a whopping $12.00 US