Where to put an AGP card for my G5?

Question

I have a Power G5 at work, and I need an AGP graphics card to use Final Cut Pro. The problem is that this G5 only has a PCI card. When I went online to look at manuals to figure out what kind of card I needed and where it should go, I became very confused because all of the info on the Apple support site says that Slot 1 for graphics card can ONLY take AGP cards and that all the other slots are PCI. My G5 has a PCI card in Slot 1.
If I do get an AGP card, where the heck am I supposed to put it?

Answer 1

Either the G5s have AGP cards in the bottom slot or (in the case of the last iteration of the machine, a PCI-express card in the bottom slot) and most will support FCP no problem, the AGP exception, probably, would be the GeFarce 5200, which is seriously underpowered.
Go to the Apple Menu and select "About this Mac" and then click the "More Info" button, which will give you a System Profiler window. Under the Hardware section in Contents, select Graphics-Displays and report the information here and we can help you decide whether you are OK (you probably are, absent the aforementioned "monkey with crayons" 5200 card). You should see something like this display with your specifics:
*NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL:*
Chipset Model: GeForce 6800 Ultra
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0040
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 2130
Displays:
SMB2330:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 50 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
SMB2330:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 50 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Note that monkey comment is really japamac's but it is apparently so true that I had to borrow it here.
Message was edited by: old comm guy