Andy Hewitt <wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> James Dore <james.dore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Andy Hewitt <wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > > James Dore <james.dore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's the best graphics card to stick in a Quad Core Powermac G5
these
> > > > days? A good all round card, I don't do anything specific. Just
want
> > > > more powah!
> > >
> > > If it's an AGP 8X G5, then the Radeon X800XT is the best you can go
for.
> > > However, I never had any luck with running ATI cards in mine, the
stock
> > > Nvidia card worked much better most of the time.
> >
> > No, it's PCI Express (16 Lane, IIRC)
>
> OK, one of these two then:
>
> http://eshop.macsales.com/search/video+cards+PCI+Express
>
> BTW, I've bought from these people, and they are superb. It was the
> Radeon 9800 card I put into my G5, and it arrived in two days (almost
> exactly in fact). Much cheaper than buying here.
I've got a Quad G5, late model.
We had Apple build it with a NVIDIA 256MB GeForce 7800 GT - one of the
three graphics cards that the link above comes up with, but the one
that's out of stock.
<http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Apple/630NV7800GTB/>
The result is a Mac that's as snappy as a Mac Plus running System 6. It
seems to be pretty good at the whole `playing video' thing - I've had
stupid numbers of QuickTime videos playing at once (just for a laugh,
really).
I've no idea how that graphics card compares to any other, but the
prices they're asking for any of the three listed at the above url seem
to be a bit OTT compared to what it cost to have the 7800GT installed as
a build to order option.
As a general rule of thumb, I take the view that the more RAM the
better, so of the two Radeon cards listed, I'd go for the 512MB one:
<http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100435928/>
Rowland.
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