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driven · Jul 4, 2004, 12:25 PM

Does anyone know how to tell what video card is in their machine?
(Other than opening the darn thing up and looking at it)

Mr. Blur · Jul 4, 2004, 12:52 PM

applications -> utilities -> system profiler

(or, from the apple menu....about this mac....then "more info....")

driven · Jul 4, 2004, 12:59 PM

Thanks. I'm not seeing where that is telling me what video card I have though. It gives me some vague information about a chipset.

I know it's ATI, but that's about it.

Mr. Blur · Jul 4, 2004, 08:35 PM

Originally posted by driven:
Thanks. I'm not seeing where that is telling me what video card I have though. It gives me some vague information about a chipset.

I know it's ATI, but that's about it.

interesting...when i pull that up i get "GeForce2 TwinView" so it is pretty obvious what my video card is.

driven · Jul 4, 2004, 08:48 PM

Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
interesting...when i pull that up i get "GeForce2 TwinView" so it is pretty obvious what my video card is.

Which screen are you looking at? I'll try and post a screen shot.

(I'm not sure what to make of your tag-line ... was that directed at me?)

Mr. Blur · Jul 4, 2004, 09:38 PM

Originally posted by driven:
Which screen are you looking at? I'll try and post a screen shot.

(I'm not sure what to make of your tag-line ... was that directed at me?)

1 - in system profiler, in the pci/agp cards section. perhaps the ati cards are just identified there in a different manner. i don't have my powerbook here at the moment to see how its built-in ati is id'd

2 - definitely not....it's been there a long time (been thinking of changing it actually)

driven · Jul 4, 2004, 10:13 PM

Thanks ....

I'll post a screen shot in a bit. I'm watching a movie with my wife and I'm on my Dell laptop at the moment. <sigh>

driven · Jul 5, 2004, 12:09 AM

Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
1 - in system profiler, in the pci/agp cards section. perhaps the ati cards are just identified there in a different manner. i don't have my powerbook here at the moment to see how its built-in ati is id'd

2 - definitely not....it's been there a long time (been thinking of changing it actually)

Here is that promised screen shot:

Is this a Radeon 9600, 9600XT, something else?

RussS · Jul 5, 2004, 12:43 AM

It's a Radeon 9600 Pro 64MB. Same card in my Dual 2 G5.
I just read in another forum earlier today that rv350=9600 pro and r350=9800 pro. Don't remember which forum It was though.

driven · Jul 5, 2004, 01:08 AM

Originally posted by RussS:
It's a Radeon 9600 Pro 64MB. Same card in my Dual 2 G5.
I just read in another forum earlier today that rv350=9600 pro and r350=9800 pro. Don't remember which forum It was though.

Thanks! I appreciate it.

Now I'd love to grab my 9600XT out of my PC, but the lack of an AGP connector makes that difficult with my cinema display. :-(