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which video card for mac G5?
wondering if anyone can help this video card newbie. i'll be getting a G5
dual 2 GHz Mac. doing mainly 2d & 3d graphics and some video editing. No game playing. the above mac comes with NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Ultra which i understand to be a 'basic' card. next available up is the ATI Radeon 9600XT. will either card be enough or should i get something better? |
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"woodsie" wrote in message ... wondering if anyone can help this video card newbie. i'll be getting a G5 dual 2 GHz Mac. doing mainly 2d & 3d graphics and some video editing. No game playing. the above mac comes with NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Ultra which i understand to be a 'basic' card. next available up is the ATI Radeon 9600XT. will either card be enough or should i get something better? ATI 9800 Pro 128Mb for G5 systems. Twice the card of a 9600XT. http://www.welovemacs.com/109a14400.html |
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Augustus wrote:
"woodsie" wrote in message ... wondering if anyone can help this video card newbie. i'll be getting a G5 dual 2 GHz Mac. doing mainly 2d & 3d graphics and some video editing. No game playing. the above mac comes with NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Ultra which i understand to be a 'basic' card. next available up is the ATI Radeon 9600XT. will either card be enough or should i get something better? ATI 9800 Pro 128Mb for G5 systems. Twice the card of a 9600XT. http://www.welovemacs.com/109a14400.html I agree, but what a weird offer :-)) "Regular price: $249.49 Sale price: $249.99" haha... -- Thomas |
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Since you do video editing and 3D graphics, you may want to look into cards
that are specifically made for that kind of work. I know nVidia has a line of cards for this and ATi may, as well. Here is the link to nVidia's "Quadro" line: http://www.nvidia.com/page/workstation.html If you can't find what you need with nVidia or ATi, last ditch would be Matrox, I guess. "woodsie" wrote in message ... wondering if anyone can help this video card newbie. i'll be getting a G5 dual 2 GHz Mac. doing mainly 2d & 3d graphics and some video editing. No game playing. the above mac comes with NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Ultra which i understand to be a 'basic' card. next available up is the ATI Radeon 9600XT. will either card be enough or should i get something better? |
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woodsie wrote:
wondering if anyone can help this video card newbie. i'll be getting a G5 dual 2 GHz Mac. doing mainly 2d & 3d graphics and some video editing. No game playing. the above mac comes with NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Ultra which i understand to be a 'basic' card. next available up is the ATI Radeon 9600XT. will either card be enough or should i get something better? I have a G5 1.8DP with the FX5200, and it's more than enough for what You want to do. The card is slow at games but more than sufficient for everything else. No other card will bring You any improvements at 2D (something on which all cards of the last ~5 years are equally good), and it's also more than enough for 3D work... The other cards only bring You some benefit if You're into gaming, but You already said that this isn't the case. So save the money and better get some add'l RAM instead... Benjamin -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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Scotter wrote:
Since you do video editing and 3D graphics, you may want to look into cards that are specifically made for that kind of work. I know nVidia has a line of cards for this and ATi may, as well. Here is the link to nVidia's "Quadro" line: http://www.nvidia.com/page/workstation.html If you can't find what you need with nVidia or ATi, last ditch would be Matrox, I guess. All nice ideas, but neither the Quadros nor Matrox cards You mentioned work with a Mac, and that's what the OP has... Benjamin -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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No other card will bring You any improvements at 2D (something on which
all cards of the last ~5 years are equally good Not the case at all. There IS a strong variance between the 2D capabilities of chipsets made by players other than ATI and NVidia (like Via, Sys, Intel etc...) over the past 5 years. To be accurate you'd have to say (something on which all NVidia, ATI, and Matrox cards of the last ...say 3 years... are equally good) Tony |
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In article , "Benjamin Gawert"
wrote: woodsie wrote: wondering if anyone can help this video card newbie. i'll be getting a G5 dual 2 GHz Mac. doing mainly 2d & 3d graphics and some video editing. No game playing. the above mac comes with NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Ultra which i understand to be a 'basic' card. next available up is the ATI Radeon 9600XT. will either card be enough or should i get something better? I have a G5 1.8DP with the FX5200, and it's more than enough for what You want to do. The card is slow at games but more than sufficient for everything else. No other card will bring You any improvements at 2D (something on which all cards of the last ~5 years are equally good), and it's also more than enough for 3D work... The other cards only bring You some benefit if You're into gaming, but You already said that this isn't the case. So save the money and better get some add'l RAM instead... Benjamin thanks for your input. bit hard to work out what to do when so many people have opposite opinions. guess i'll start off with someone lower on the list and see how that goes. |
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woodsie wrote:
thanks for your input. bit hard to work out what to do when so many people have opposite opinions. guess i'll start off with someone lower on the list and see how that goes. Well, You should know that in PeeCee-Land the FX5200 has a bad reputation simply because it's too slow for most modern games. It is a full DirectX9 card which supports all the nice goodies but doesn't perform well enough to be able to be useful for Dx9 games. So that's one reason for negative feedacks. The second reason is probably that most people never would buy a FX5200 for themselves, because it's a low-end card. But most of these people also never would recommend a FX5200 for other people, despite the fact that not everyone does gaming and that the FX5200 (or any other card of that price range) is more than enough for the supposed tasks. But You're not a gamer, and You also are going to buy a Mac for which the list of available cards is quite short compared to PC-Land. The FX5200Ultra Apple sells with the Powermac G5 isn't the fastest card, and if You were into serious gaming You probably would be much better with i.e. the Geforce6800 DDL, but for the applications You listed, none of the other availabe card will bring You _any_ benefit. Just a higher price... The Apple FX5200U also has a very good analog signal quality (better than Apples Radeon 9600), and it's passive cooled. A nice thing if You consider that the Powermac G5 is extremely silent... Benjamin -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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Tony DiMarzio wrote:
No other card will bring You any improvements at 2D (something on which all cards of the last ~5 years are equally good Not the case at all. There IS a strong variance between the 2D capabilities of chipsets made by players other than ATI and NVidia (like Via, Sys, Intel etc...) over the past 5 years. Not really. Even the UMA gfx chips made by VIA, SIS and intel during the last 5 years aren't really slower than todays top end cards when it comes to 2D. Differences usually are barely measureable, and certainly not feelable in real work... Benjamin -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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