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What is the best graphics card available with the mac pros?
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After holding out for the past two months, I was rather disappointed this past Wednesday with the expensive update that apple provided for the mac pro line. It is obviously way out of my range to upgrade to the 8 core, and I kind of wish I would have just ordered the 4 core 2 months ago.
My question is..
Whats the best graphics card available for the mac pro…
I’m assuming I should just go with basic ram and order over the internet?
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The most affordable best video card is the X1900XT. The more expensive option is the Geforce FX 4500 Quadro, which is more of a graphics workstation card for those costly pro apps.
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Mac Pro Dual 3.0 Dual-Core
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Thanks, I am basically looking for something for a some gaming and fun 
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The X1900XT is very nice for gaming. I'm also shopping for a new video card but will be waiting until the new DX10 cards come out (although OS X can't support DX10, I play a little in Windows and figure may as well get the fancy new generation as they are much better [on paper]).
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They make PCI Express video cards for PC's right? Then you could probably get a kick-ass card for cheap and just play your games in Windows even if there are no Mac OSX drivers for the card.
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Originally Posted by Sakino 
Thanks, I am basically looking for something for a some gaming and fun
Get the X1900XT from Apple's online Store. As the others said, it's great for gaming.
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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i currently have the x1900 and i can play all the games at the highest res without any lagg (Quake, Postal, Prey...)
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