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Hi,

The most powerful PCIe card you can put in a G5 late 2005 is the NVIDIa FX Quardo FX4500. You can get a PC version and flash it to work in the Mac.

The next best is the 7800GT, again flashed for Mac.

How-tos and ROMs - start here:

http://themacelite.wikidot.com/nvflash-basics.

You will need a PC which will boot from a Floppy disk to flash the video card using NvFlash.

I use NvFlash 5.06 downloaded from Guru3D.com and an old Dell Vostro 200.

If you have problems, I can dropbox you everything you need.

Incidentally, I have an SSD booting my Quad G5 via a FirmTek SeriTek 2SE2 PCIe card - the only bootable PCIe card for the late 2005 G5. It has 2 external eSATA ports, but I have cabled them to an internal Sonnet Jive mount for the SSD. This is more than twice as fast as the built in SATA connections.

Regards,

Nick