Simplest way to support additional displays?

I have a PowerMac G4 with dual 450MHz processors, and an ATY,Rage128 Pro graphics card that came with the system. I would like to support another VGA display. I have seen several questions on this forum with regards to specific graphics cards, and all of them seem to be about high-end graphics cards, like the ATI Radeon 9800 Mac, and may require additional cooling, etc.
I would be most grateful for advice on a functional, yet inexpensive PCI graphics card that I can add to the G4 to drive the second display. I do not feel comfortable flashing my own cards, and I live in the UK. Thanks in advance.
VirginiaS

It the second display isn't needed for hi-res graphics and 3D acceleration, you can go pretty lo-tech on a PCI card. The old ATI Rage 128 Orion (a retail card) or its factory-installed equivalent, the ATI Rage Pro 128 (pulled form old blue and white G3s or PCi G4s) have 16MB of VRAM and a VGA port. Driver support is still present in 10.4 and may be in 10.5.
The downside is that you are looking for a used/pulled unit and must rely on the veracity of the seller's description to make sure you're really getting a Mac card. Many are AGP so you need to carefully determine that the card is PCI. I've seen these cards various places for under US$20. NOTE: Rage 128 Pro cards advertised as having 32MB RAM are usually for peecees, not Macs.
This one appears to be the right one.
The nice thing about the older cards comes if you still use OS9. The current PCI card, the 9200, does not play well in OS9, giving mixed results at best.. The ones I mention above normally are as happy in OS9 and they are in OSX.

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