[rotuts]

My MacPro is about a year old and I got it w the GeForce 7300 256MB card.

so far so good. Not A Gamer! (me

I run a 24" and 21" Samsung fine.

but Its Football season and I has the Miglia HD reciever and when I put the true HD on the 24 in I need to unplug the 21 to use all the video ram for true full HD w/0 'fall out" then its 1080. if its the smaller 720 Im ok.

so I might like to get a second videocard. but Id like some recommendations and a way to make sure the card I might get is really for a Mac.

maybe just a second GeForce 7300? or a ATI X1900 x 2 w 512?

cheers and thanks!

[rotuts]

ooooooooop's

its not the video RAM its the antenna possition.

fiddle fiddle and now strengh > 80% and much better.

still it would be nice to know how to get aapl video cards and not PC's

Id have a red face but Ill go w purple:

cheers

[P]

Apple sells some, including the 7300GT, but they're not exactly good value at the prices they charge.

[mduell]

Playing video on a Mac has nothing to do with the video card.

You can buy Mac-compatible video cards through the Apple Store online; beware that not all of them will work in a Mac Pro (many are for older PowerPC Macs). The 7300GT, X1900XT, and Quadro 4500 are the only three that will work with a Mac Pro, and even then you need to be careful to buy the Mac Pro version not the PowerMac version of the latter two.

[rotuts]

md!

I was under the impression that "live" video processing as from my Miglia HD was very sensitive to the amount of VRAM on the video card:

an older HD system on my G4 would only work when I unplugged one of the monitors: that card had only 128MB VRAM.

this MPRO has enough it seems after I figured out that the Miglia TV had a pref panel that allowed me to move the small antenna around to maximize the signal strength.

even small movements made a differece.

your views?

cheers and thanks

[mduell]

While the current (and last) generation GPUs can do video decoding (for significant reductions in CPU load on Windows machines), the graphics drivers for OS X don't support it.

The Miglia TVmini HD page says nothing about needing a lot of VRAM, and I can't see why you would. OTA broadcasts are MPEG2, so decoding them is not a big challenge on a modern machine.

[rotuts]

OK Thanks. thats good to know.

saves me a second card!

cheers