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What’s the best graphics card for editing?
I’m in the process of buying a dual 2 gig G5. Here’s a basic run down of what I’m getting (omitting some extraneous things):
Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz
160GB Serial ATA – 7200rpm
16x SuperDrive double-layer (DVD+R DL/DVD -
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The basic stock card in the G5 is totally sufficient for Final Cut. Typically the ATI’s have less hiccups that the NVIDIA on the Mac platform.
As long as you trust their RAM, go ahead and put it in. No need whatsoever to reformat or reinstall. Welcome to 95% uptime 🙂 Macs are very good with adding things on and just working.
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The basic stock card in the G5 is totally sufficient for Final Cut. Typically the ATI’s have less hiccups that the NVIDIA on the Mac platform.
======That being said, it’s only $50 to upgrade to the ATI Radeon 9650 which would double your video RAM. I’d consider that money well spent since Tiger uses the video card for more things than past OS’s have. The basic card works fine, but I don’t think $50 is enough to worry about for what you get.
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Okay, but I want to get either the Geforce 6800 GT or the Radeon X850 XT. I was just wondering which would be better for video applications. Both cost $360 more than the stock card.
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Then get the ATI. Like I said, NVIDIA has had more hiccups (in the past) with OSX than ATI.
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The 6800 blocks a slot, which is unacceptable for many of us…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
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