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Changing video cards
Ok well I bought the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro card over the weekend which was recommended for my system as an upgrade. Now the instructions state that I should locate the current graphic card drivers and remove them before installing the new card. That sounds more like a PC thing to me. Someone else told me to install the new card and don’t fiddle around with the drivers because I could mess my system up. I am confused on what to do since it came with a Software installation CD for Mac OS systems. The card is PC and Mac compatible.
Those of you that upgraded your cards before, does any of this sound correct to you? Just trying to get to the bottom of this before I install the new card and Final Cut Studio 2.
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the current recommendation is the Radeon HD 3870.
https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/smartin/story/its_all_in_the_cards/
when I change cards on any of my Macs I just put it in and run the software than came with it. It’s probably a PC file on the CD and your Mac tool swill be Web downloads.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Chuck,
What model of Mac do you have? Does it have an AGP or a PCI express (PCIe) graphics card slot?
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I have a first generation Powermac G5 with a AGP slot with 3 PCI expansion slots
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