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<blockquote data-quote="theshane0314" data-source="post: 849784" data-attributes="member: 102462"><p><strong>powermac g5</strong></p><p></p><p>i am wanting to buy a powermac g5 dual 2ghz 4-8 gbs ram but i have some questions before i do. i dont know if there is another forum i should have looked at first so if there is please post a link to that one.</p><p></p><p>first off i am wanting to dual boot xp via bootcamp because i play games(l4d, css, fc2) that are not compatible with os x. my only concern about that is the video card. i have done some research and they best video card i can install in this wont meet my requirements. so i was wondering if i could install a second videocard that is compatible with windows xp and then just use that one for my games such as an geforce 9800 GTX and then run xp off a different monitor. is this possible? and if so what would i have to do to get that to work.</p><p>and i believe the best video card i can get for a g5 is a geforce 7800. please correct me if i am wrong. </p><p></p><p>thank you for reading my post and i am open to any ideas. i really love macs just not their compatibility with windows games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="theshane0314, post: 849784, member: 102462"] [b]powermac g5[/b] i am wanting to buy a powermac g5 dual 2ghz 4-8 gbs ram but i have some questions before i do. i dont know if there is another forum i should have looked at first so if there is please post a link to that one. first off i am wanting to dual boot xp via bootcamp because i play games(l4d, css, fc2) that are not compatible with os x. my only concern about that is the video card. i have done some research and they best video card i can install in this wont meet my requirements. so i was wondering if i could install a second videocard that is compatible with windows xp and then just use that one for my games such as an geforce 9800 GTX and then run xp off a different monitor. is this possible? and if so what would i have to do to get that to work. and i believe the best video card i can get for a g5 is a geforce 7800. please correct me if i am wrong. thank you for reading my post and i am open to any ideas. i really love macs just not their compatibility with windows games. [/QUOTE]
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