[kris whitten]

mike,

Radeon 8500 agp card.

I have it in a G4 400 and it works PERFECT.

DO NOT GET THE RADEON 9000 or higher

unless your machine comes with an ADC connector (gigabit models only.

THe majority of G4 400 came with ati rage 128 card.

These will not power the radeon 9000, it is designed to replace or be installed in newer G 4 which have special power requirements on AGP bus for ADC (apple display connector) it powers and sends output to monitor.

If you did radeon 9000 you couldn't use it's ADC port.
8500 has vga, DVI (plus DVI to VGA adapter) and can even do S video !!!!

Keeps second monitor card off of the pci bus....

Also saw your post about the upgrade cards.

I have the Sonnet 1 ghz card, i beta tested it with ptle 5.x and os 9

works good, however they want the card back, so I am considering going dual.

I would check into the powerlogix dual 800 or 867 or 933 or 1 ghz upgrade, should keep you going for another year or two (being conservative, probably longer)

where a single processor upgrade is only if you plan on getting a G5 in the next year or two....