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Video card upgrade for G5?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2008
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I'm thinking about upgrading the video card in my dual 2.5Ghz Power Mac G5, purchased in February 2005. The specs are here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP67
My machine came with 2GB of memory.
I think I'm limited to AGP (please confirm), and limited again because the Mac editions of these cards are hard to find (at least for me). I'd like to see a significant boost in 3d (WoW, mostly). I've heard some upgrades require an extra power supply (?), but I want to get my facts straight before I look further.
What options would you suggest, and where do you think I should look to buy?
Thanks very much.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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If you currently have a Radeon 9600, you have three upgrade choices: the Radeon 9800, the Radeon x800 and the Nvidia 6800.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Thanks.
Any thoughts on where to purchase one? Also, what I read about the 9800 needing an extra connection to a power supply, did I just get my wires crossed?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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OWC (eshop.macsales.com) probably has them.
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