Multiple video cards on a powermac g5?????????????

I have heard that you can connect more than one video cards as long as they are pci. Does this fully work/ what do you recommend?

Hi-
I have heard that you can connect more than one video cards as long as they are pci.
Yes, one may.
Does this fully work/
No, not for all apps or all OS versions.
what do you recommend?
Choices are limited to Radeon 9200 Mac Edition, Radeon 7000 (Mac) , Geforce 5200 (Flashed) and Geforce 6200 (Flashed).
Support for multiple monitors in pro apps will be hit and miss, primarily the latter.
Quartz Extreme support is of concern, with only the flashed 6200 providing such (from other reports).
PCI graphics cards do not provide graphics acceleration as AGP cards do, so they are not for gaming or any graphics/video intensive applications.

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