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I've not been keeping up with the latest Video Cards...
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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What's currently the best available for my Quicksilver dp800? Is there a new gen one announced and coming soon that is significantly better than currently avail?
Thanks for the info!
(I currently have GF3)
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Highland Park, IL / Santa Monica, CA
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The best you can get (for the Mac) is a Radeon 9700 Pro, and those are only available BTO -- meaning if you want one, you'll need to get it off Ebay. It knocks the socks off the GF3, BTW 
The current overall GPU leader is the Radeon 9800 Pro, followed closely by the GeForceFX 5900 (the 5800, the original release, REALLY SUCKED, but they fixed a lot with the 5900). The 9800 and FX are still PC-only at the moment, though.
For some good comparisons of video card performance, head over www.anandtech.com .
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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What mac-freak said: The best video card is the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro MAC Edition, also the GeForce4 Ti4800 is pretty fast albeit slower than the 9700
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The Radeon 9700 is definitely the best current video card available for the Mac. Unfortunately it's not available by itself, it comes BTO on new Macs. The second best, the Geforce 4Ti and Radeon 8500 can be bought without buying a new system. The Geforce 4Ti is available from the Apple Store and the Radeon 8500 is available from any retailer.
Here are benchmarks of the cards http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/...EM/index4.html
The next hot cards are the Radeon 9800 and the GeforceFX 5900. Neither of these cards have been anounced for the Mac, yet.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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I have the same equipment.
But will sticking a 9700 in a dp800 really give a huge jump inperformance? Or should you not even bother because of that castrated bus as it is? I know the 9700 is a monster machine and utterly destroys theh GF3, but I'm wondering if I should just hold out completely for whatever Apple puts out next (Power Mac-wise).
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Originally posted by MindFad:
I have the same equipment.
But will sticking a 9700 in a dp800 really give a huge jump inperformance? Or should you not even bother because of that castrated bus as it is? I know the 9700 is a monster machine and utterly destroys theh GF3, but I'm wondering if I should just hold out completely for whatever Apple puts out next (Power Mac-wise).
Actually, I have the same machine, a DP800 with a Geforce 3. Like you MindFab, I'm thinking of just waiting for the next best PowerMac, because, while the Radeon 9700 will improve FPS in my DP800, current and future games will be CPU starved on my machine, and not fully use the Radeon 9700. Ie. We need a faster CPU (with a better motherboard architecture) and a faster GPU. I'll probably buy this fall or early next year.
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