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AGP card recommendation for FCP5 please…
I installed FCP 5 on a slower Blue G4 and it says it won’t run without an Extreme Graphics video card.
Can anyone recommend a low-end (cheap), AGP card to get? And, do I have to use AGP or can I use PCI?
Thanks in advance…
Bill
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4 Replies
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I can’t recommend a card but I can recommend a newer Used computer.
FCP 5 will not run on your system. It’s not just the graphics card.
If you are looking for cheap, a year old iMac is what you want.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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[Steve Eisen] “FCP 5 will not run on your system. It’s not just the graphics card. “
Because it’s too slow? (Dual 500 mhz). I can live with slow – it’s mainly for practice.
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Not sure if the ati 800’s fit in your machine but given the price of them Steve’s recommendation is probably the best way to go. I think the dual 500G4 was fcp 3 vintage. I still have mine and it was running fcp 4 (before HD). It wouldn’t run DSP3 very well at all which is why I jumped to a dual 2GHZ G5. You could always pick up a fcp 4 sw to fool around with.
You can use the pci slot for a graphics card but you may run out of them for other things.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Rennie Klymyk] “Not sure if the ati 800’s fit in your machine but given the price of them Steve’s recommendation is probably the best way to go.”
Pretty sure it wouldn’t work. The ATi x800 is an 8X card, the AGP bus on a dual 500 is probably 2x or 4x. I don’t remember the minimum spec on FCP 5.x, but If a dual 500 is compatable at all, it would be so far towards the minimum that it would be painful.
Arnie
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