Graphics card upgrade - PowerMac G4 QuickSilver

Hi everyone!
As BDAqua probably remembers, I installed an ATI Radeon 9600 in my G4 QuickSilver. It was slow as ****, and after selling the card I realised that the problem was the 733MHz G4 CPU. I now have a Dual 800MHz G4 in it and graphics performance improved a lot. I found a spare FX5500 with a REALLY noisy fan, flashed it, taped pins 3 and 11 and put in the G4. It works fine but:
- the fan noise is really unbearable and it isn't worth replacing it (it's attached to the heatsink so I should replace the whole heatsink - no way)
- no Core Image support in Leopard (no translucent menubar, no graphic acceleration etc)
- only VGA port is working, so awful image on the display
So I'm thinking of buying a new graphics card, but I don't know what to buy. I have an X800 Pro from Sapphire that isn't compatible with Mac ROMs, so I can't flash it (plus it wasn't recognised at all in my G4, even with taped pins, whereas in my G5 was listed as a "VGA compatible controller" or something like that) and a strange revision of the Radeon 9250 that doesn't even work anymore.
I would really like a fan-less card (a quiet fan would be fine as well) but my priority is to have good graphics performance and A WORKING DVI OUTPUT!!
I was thinking to buy an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB on eBay that I could flash, but I'll wait for your advice. Which card should I buy?
Thank you!

Hey,
See japamacs page here on the best AGP cards for G4s & G5s...
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/4B4B7BA2-7ABB-47F1-87AC-B03D379 42BEE.html
Rated slowest on top, fastest on bottom, hopefully japamac will drop in shortly.
G5 PCIe options are listed here:
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/71BBF3EF-9713-4C53-8B80-26771F8 A4087.html
Fixed High Temps + Ghosting on 6800 Ultra Mac Edition AGP Graphics Card
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5926058?tstart=0

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