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graphics cards – ATI X1900 still the one?
i had asked about this awhile ago, and tonight looked over some threads on the subject, but am finally about ready to upgrade my GEForce FX 5200 to the recommended ATA X1900. it seems that “Color” is the graphics hog here? so if it works well for Color, Motion and FCP will be no problem, i assume? just wondered if anything else had hit the market since Apple made it’s recommendations that you guys would recommend, or just stick with the X1900…
i have the Power PC G5, so it looks like i need the GT rather than the XT? also, i’ve got 4GB RAM, will that have any effect on the graphics card, or do i need to bump it up to 8 GB?
more dumb questions…(sorry)
thanks again!
mh
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It’s a great card… Motion, Color, and FCP’s fx plugs will all benefit from it. just buy the one that works with the mac you have. Probably PCI X unless you’ve a newer G5. (Quad).
My intuition says there will be newer cards out soon, but they may never work with the PCI config you have…. so the X1900 might be just the ticket for your machine.
Jerry
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for the PCI-X G5 you will have to go with the X800 card
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[mortimer heathcliff] “but am finally about ready to upgrade my GEForce FX 5200 to the recommended ATA X1900.”
It would be hard to do Mortimer as the X1900 is a PCI-e card and your machine doesn’t have PCI-e slots. As Morten mentioned, the proper card for your machine is the ATI Radeon x800 XT Mac Edition. They were out of production, but are now re-released and available for about $270. I’m thinkin about getting one myself.
You can see it at at MacMall at: https://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=7127975&Redir=1&description=ATI-ATI%20Radeon%20X800%20Graphics%20adapter-Video%20Cards.
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I mentioned this on the Color forum, there seems to be some problems with the re-released x800t, so test it quickly in case you need to return it:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/223/4135
Gerry
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Interesting Gerry, thanks for the tip. I’ll certainly look deeply into that before I guy…
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Sure, I want to save people the hassle I went through. Since it’s a power issue the card may work with display setups that don’t use the older ADC cinema displays which draw power from the G5- like with a dual link 30″ or maybe an ADC to dvi adapter.
Gerry
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I make a search in Googles a couple of days ago and it seems that there is a big problem with this graphic card.When installed it seems that produce a kind of pixels corruption in the screen. It seems that ATI is replacing the cards.
I order one a couple of weeks ago. Let see what they send me.
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thanks for the input guys. so, it has 256MB DDR, and if the newer remakes of these are working, i guess this is probably about the best i can do in upgrading my Mac short of just getting a new Mac, eh?
how much graphics RAM are you guys using with FCP2, namely for Motion 3 and Color? just curious…
thanks again!
mh
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The more the merrier… I’d think 256 would be minimum myself…
Jerry
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