PCI graphics card for g4(yikes)

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I currently have a ati rage 128 16mb ram in my 400MHZ G4 with almost a gig of ram. I know that my graphics card is my main bottleneck. Most flash on websites, and some google videos are a bit skippy(no where near smooth). Is this my graphics card, or is this just the fact that my machine is from before 2000. I could pick up a radeon 7000 for 30 bucks, or one with 64MB for 50 or so. Or I could get a 9200 for about a hundred bucks. Atleast with a Radeon I should be able to use PCI extreme and activite quartz, and core imaging. Do I have any other options, or is it not worth it? I figure what I have now is just garbage, and a 7000 would be a good step up... Not like im going to be able to play many games anyways with 400mhz, so i shouldn't need the 9200.

TIA
 
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Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) 400 MHz
The Radeon 7000 for $30 sounds like a good choice to me. ^_^
 
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2GHz Mac Mini 2GB RAM 160GB 10.6.2 | MDD DP 1.25GHz G4 1.5GB RAM 10.4.11 | 233MHz iMac G3 10.3.9
Radeon 7000 should suit you well :)
 
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deus_ex_machina said:
Radeon 7000 should suit you well :)
Will it be that big of a performance gain? I know its cheap, but from 7000 to 9200 What kind of gain can I see?
 

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