Radeon VS. 9200

Question

I currently have a PCI ATI Radeon Mac Edition in my Beige Desktop, and was wondering if there is any benefit of upgrading to a ATI Radeon 9200? I have read mixed things about the 9200 in these forums in other Beige machines, so I am not sure if it's a good idea or not.
The Radeon is a single head output, but you can mirror the same resolution output to the VGA and the s-video. Is the 9200 a dual-head video, where you can display an extended desktop on different monitors connected to the different ports at different resolutions? ATI web says it has dual display support, but I don't know if that means that it just works with your other displays, or if the card itself is a dual head card.
Does the 9200 work well under both OS 9 and X as compared to the Radeon Mac Edition? Just wondering what the general consensus was from the other G3 Desktop users out there.
Thanks.

Answer 1

i know that the 9200 has problems with a Beige G3 running under OS 9. but ive herd that it works great under OS X. these problems are not there with the orignal radeon ME or radeon 7000 ME both work great under OS 9 or OS X. i will let other people with the 9200 installed on there beige G3 chime in.
i have a radeon 7000 and dont have a problem with it. i know the orignal radeon that you have is faster than the 7000. and the 9200 isnt much faster than the orignal radeon cause of the Beige G3's 33mhz pci bus speed.
the only place where the 9200 shines is games that require a high amount of video ram cause it has 128mb vram and the orignal radeon and radeon 7000 have only 32mb vram unless you have a flashed pc radeon 7000 with 64mb vram ( when i say flashed pc i ment its normaly for a windows pc that has been flashed to work on the Mac) but i have herd that a Mac flashed pc video card is hit and miss on working.
and i dunno about your dual head video card question. as i said above i will let som one with a 9200 chime in