Mac Dual 2.5 GHz PPC graphics card upgrade

I am looking for a replacement to my ATI Radeon 9600 XT card so I can fully exploit the new Photoshop CS4 features. It should be an AGP card (or will an PCI card work, too?) I guess and have at least 256Mb RAM. And I have seen that there's not a lot of those AGP cards available anymore, at least not for Macs. And it should be one of the cards that Adobe supports, listed here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405711.html#mac
Thanks a lot for any suggestions,
Olaf

Hi-
See this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9473720#9473720
There are only two real options for some support:
Geforce 6800 GT or Ultra
Geforce 7800 GS
There is no way to get full support of all the features of CS4 (After Effects) in a PPC Mac.

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