AGP Graphics Card Recommendations anyone?

Hi,
I recently purchased soem software that my 128 MB AGP 8X card is not worthy of. I have spoken to Apple and they are not offering anything that is 256 MG AGP 8X, I have an early 2005 dual 2.0 Powermac... so my questions are....
1) Is there a way to adapt a PCI Express video card?
2) What would be the best card to use in regards to an 256 MB AGP 8X card that would work with my Mac?
Thanks in advance,
Sean

Hello! Look HERE to decide on a card. tom

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