TheGimp
Jan 31, 2006, 08:59 AM
"Radeon 9800 Special Edition"
Excellent conditions, original box, discs, and manual.
$150 shipped anywhere in USA
Paypal and money orders only
This card spent 1 year in a Dual G5(early winter of 2004 until 2 months ago when I sold that Powermac), and original package, manual, and discs containing drivers (most up to date ones are online) and a handful of luscious bundled Radeon 3D demo animations (including the now famous "Car Paint", "Bear", and several others) For at least half that time, the card was mostly snoozing out of boredom from having so little work to do. That is, I played a lot of games for the first 3-4 months (mainly Doom 3, Halo, and BF 1942), and then got bored with mac games and hardly did anything that pushed the card from that point on. (mainly just 2D stuff like Photojob and illustrator). Now for the last 2 months it's just been neatly packaged in the original box, ready to ship.
For those unfamiliar with the card's specs, I suggest visiting the radeon site and looking under "Mac Products". As the thread topic states, this card works only in G5 Powermacs. It is AGP 8X, compared to the older 128MB Radeon Pro that worked with G4 Powermacs, and this card is is somewhat faster as well, most notably (according to barefeats.com review and my own experience) being able to enable antialiasing and anisotropic filtering WITHOUT taking as big an overall rendering and pixel fill performance hit as the non-special edition Radeon 9800 Pro.
What else...it drives two displays, one DVI and one ADC (inexpensive adaptor will convert the ADC to DVI so you can hook up two DVIs at once if you want to).
Also does some other neat things, such as hardware 90 or 180 degree rotations of the image so that you can, for example, turn a widescreen display on end and do studio work using different screen proportions.
It also claims to have enhanced DVD decoding, but I can't personally vouch for it making a big difference.
While it't surely not the most current card, it was the best card obtainable for the Powermac about 1.5 years ago (right before then priced $600 Nvidia ultra 6800 was released).
Now it would be about the best card you could put in a single processor G5 without being overkill (cpu/bus speed would be the bottleneck), or possibly a dual 1.8ghz G5, but I;m no expert so spending twice as much might get you an extra 8-10 frames per second in a game like Doom 3.
If 3D rendering is your cup of tea, this card is an excellent entry to medium level (formerly "pro level") card appropriate for someone who plans to use it in a mac network rendering with other macs, OR is suitable in a G5 system to be used by a budding 3D artist who doesn't mind waiting 2 hours to render an image that would be processed by a $300-500 in at best half the time. The 3D engine itself produces visually breathtaking results (i.e. compared to an Nvida 5200FX or even a radeon 9600) , it just does it slower than recent cards so you won't people able to play Doom 3 on a dual 2.0 G5 mac or slower on a 23" display at FULL 1920x1200 resolution and have it look ultra smooth. You CAN play Doom 3 on a G5 with this card and get an average in0game framerate of over ~40+ fps at a lower resolution such as 1024x768 and most of the eye candy Doom 3 options set to medium . Jumping up to 1280x1024 and keeping medium detail settings wilol bring you down to the lower 30's, and going down to "low" eye candy and rasing resolution to 1600x1200 will bring you back up to high 30's (timedemo).
I addressed Doom 3 performance on a basic dual G5 1.8 not because I expect a hardcore gamer to buy this, but because at least 1-2 people WILL ask about it..
(btw- this card does run games such as Wolfenstein:ET, RTCW at 1920x1024 will most or all eye candy maxed, at well over (more like 60fps for RTCW on a dual G5). Halo 1 also runs GREAT, but you'll need not at 1920x1200, unless you lower the visual options to compensate.
that's it
PM me.
$150 Shipped to continental US
paypal and money orders only
Ted
Excellent conditions, original box, discs, and manual.
$150 shipped anywhere in USA
Paypal and money orders only
This card spent 1 year in a Dual G5(early winter of 2004 until 2 months ago when I sold that Powermac), and original package, manual, and discs containing drivers (most up to date ones are online) and a handful of luscious bundled Radeon 3D demo animations (including the now famous "Car Paint", "Bear", and several others) For at least half that time, the card was mostly snoozing out of boredom from having so little work to do. That is, I played a lot of games for the first 3-4 months (mainly Doom 3, Halo, and BF 1942), and then got bored with mac games and hardly did anything that pushed the card from that point on. (mainly just 2D stuff like Photojob and illustrator). Now for the last 2 months it's just been neatly packaged in the original box, ready to ship.
For those unfamiliar with the card's specs, I suggest visiting the radeon site and looking under "Mac Products". As the thread topic states, this card works only in G5 Powermacs. It is AGP 8X, compared to the older 128MB Radeon Pro that worked with G4 Powermacs, and this card is is somewhat faster as well, most notably (according to barefeats.com review and my own experience) being able to enable antialiasing and anisotropic filtering WITHOUT taking as big an overall rendering and pixel fill performance hit as the non-special edition Radeon 9800 Pro.
What else...it drives two displays, one DVI and one ADC (inexpensive adaptor will convert the ADC to DVI so you can hook up two DVIs at once if you want to).
Also does some other neat things, such as hardware 90 or 180 degree rotations of the image so that you can, for example, turn a widescreen display on end and do studio work using different screen proportions.
It also claims to have enhanced DVD decoding, but I can't personally vouch for it making a big difference.
While it't surely not the most current card, it was the best card obtainable for the Powermac about 1.5 years ago (right before then priced $600 Nvidia ultra 6800 was released).
Now it would be about the best card you could put in a single processor G5 without being overkill (cpu/bus speed would be the bottleneck), or possibly a dual 1.8ghz G5, but I;m no expert so spending twice as much might get you an extra 8-10 frames per second in a game like Doom 3.
If 3D rendering is your cup of tea, this card is an excellent entry to medium level (formerly "pro level") card appropriate for someone who plans to use it in a mac network rendering with other macs, OR is suitable in a G5 system to be used by a budding 3D artist who doesn't mind waiting 2 hours to render an image that would be processed by a $300-500 in at best half the time. The 3D engine itself produces visually breathtaking results (i.e. compared to an Nvida 5200FX or even a radeon 9600) , it just does it slower than recent cards so you won't people able to play Doom 3 on a dual 2.0 G5 mac or slower on a 23" display at FULL 1920x1200 resolution and have it look ultra smooth. You CAN play Doom 3 on a G5 with this card and get an average in0game framerate of over ~40+ fps at a lower resolution such as 1024x768 and most of the eye candy Doom 3 options set to medium . Jumping up to 1280x1024 and keeping medium detail settings wilol bring you down to the lower 30's, and going down to "low" eye candy and rasing resolution to 1600x1200 will bring you back up to high 30's (timedemo).
I addressed Doom 3 performance on a basic dual G5 1.8 not because I expect a hardcore gamer to buy this, but because at least 1-2 people WILL ask about it..
(btw- this card does run games such as Wolfenstein:ET, RTCW at 1920x1024 will most or all eye candy maxed, at well over (more like 60fps for RTCW on a dual G5). Halo 1 also runs GREAT, but you'll need not at 1920x1200, unless you lower the visual options to compensate.
that's it
PM me.
$150 Shipped to continental US
paypal and money orders only
Ted
