What Video Cards ACTUALLY WORK with my G5

I have a Dual core 2.3GHz G5 with a GeForce 6600. I really want to upgrade my video card, but as usual, I can't figure out if any card will actual work. I'm really interested in the 7800 GT and GTX. Nvidia's site says that the entire 7 series of cards work in OS X, but none of the companies that actually make the cards have any mention of Mac support. I'm so frustrated because Nvidia doesn't make any cards, the companies that make them make 4 different versions of each card and don't sell them and the places that do sell them know nothing about them. So can someone PLEASE, post links to the actual cards that work in my machine. thank you.

Nvidia doesn't make the Video Cards.
They make the chips (GPU) that run on the Video Card itself. Most of the Nvidia chipsets are supported by Mac OS X.
The problem is that all Video Cards carry a firmware PROM chip that contains the early-boot code for the card as well as the card's internal operating parameters.
There is a PC version of the firmware, commonly called the VGA BIOS, and there is a Mac version of the firmware, which is designed for OpenFirmware.
The two are completly seperate from each other. A PC card will not operate in a Macintosh, nor will a Macintosh card operate in a PC.
That's your problem- is that the Nvidia chipsets support Mac OS X, but the firmware on the card (which, is up to the manufacture which one they include) may or may not support the Macintosh platform.
Saying that, the only two cards available for the G5 is the 7800 GT and the Quadro 4500. Both cards contain the Apple firmware required for the card to work in a G5.
There are no other manufactures who offer Mac G5 compatible solutions, probably due to Apple's unwillingness to release the said Mac firmware for third party video cards. Thus, it's really one or the other, and Welovemacs.com seems to be the only retailer offering ether of the cards for seperate purchase.
-S'Captain

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