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Best Video Card for my Dual 2ghz?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2002
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What's the best card that I can get for my machine? Right now it has the stock ATI Radeon 9650. My Power Mac is an older model dual 2ghz with only 4 RAM slots.
Thanks,
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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The ATi X850XT and nVidia 6800U are the best cards available for your Mac.
Which one is better for you depends on the apps you use; see Barefeats for benchmarks.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Is this card available anywhere? I can't find a Mac version at any of the usual online retailers.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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"This"? I mentioned two cards.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
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Sorry, I'm retarded! The ATi x850 XT.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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That's because the X850XT was only offered BTO by Apple. There's no way to buy it. The Apple 6800 cards were offered as an upgrade, but I believe they're EOL'd. You might find one, but you'll have to do a bit of looking. The person who told you they're available was simply incorrect.
The ATI offers the X800, which you will be able to find. It's just a hair slower than the X850.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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I purchased an ATI x800XT for my Duel 2Ghz, G5. I have to say I love it. I run motion and Final cut on my machine and it runs smooth as silk. This is the card that you want if you do those kind of application or play games on yoru mac as well with a nice 23'HD Cinema Display.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced civilization could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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I got my revA 2.0 duallie with a 9800Pro. A few months ago I got a 256MB X800XT and was very impressed. Doom3 runs just a tad slower than on my MacBook with a 256MB X1600. IMO ATi has better drivers and support than the nVidia catds on a Mac...
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally Posted by PixelBurst
Is this card available anywhere? I can't find a Mac version at any of the usual online retailers.
There are two or three on ebay right now (if eBay is a valid option for you), this one has a great price:
http://tinyurl.com/gqku8
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