Graphic card upgrade for old Mac G5 a good idea?

[magic_dot]

Hello,

I am operating a 1.6 GHz PowerPC G5 with 2 GB DDR SDRAM.

The graphics card is an nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 with 64Mb VRAM.

I have two displays, a 1680x1050 flat screen and a 1600x1200 CRT monitor.

I run Adobe Creative Suite 3 a lot. I have already discovered that the graphics card does not like dual monitors when using Adobe Bridge.

My two graphics card upgrade options are:

ATI Radeon 9200 128MB DVI/ VGA PCI card
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB DVI/ DVI AGP card

Will I see any performance increase when using two monitors OS X 10.4 and Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Bridge in CS3?

(apologies if this topic has arisen before... I struggled to find it on a search).

regards,

Pete

[Templarian]

The other hardware is pretty old man. The 9200 graphics card would help out, but don't waste the money on getting the 9600 as most of the performance between running those programs comes a lot for the processor and ram.

You will probably see it run smoother on both your monitors though.

[magic_dot]

Thanks for your comments.
We upgraded the G5 to the 256Mb card in the end -- with great results. Highly recommended upgrade.

I can now run Bridge successfully (without software rendering) on dual monitors whilst Ps, Id and Ai are running. Preview times for Bridge have dropped to an instant. As an extra bonus, Firefox no longer causes system crashes (frequency of crashes has dropped dramatically when Firefox is open).
Pete