PCI Video Cards For MDD & G5

[robertdsc]

After a lot of study and some nosing around eBay, I took the plunge and bought a 32 MB ATI Rage 6 PCI video card with VGA, DVI, and S-Video. When it came, I first tested it on my testbed G4 MDD Dual 1.0 with satisfactory results.

I then transplanted the card to my G5 Dual 2.0 and it works fine.

After working with a triple monitor setup between the stock G5's ATI Radeon 9600 XT and the Rage 6, I'm a little disappointed that the Rage 6 doesn't work as well as I had hoped it would. It works fine and I can see my HP 19 inch widescreen monitor without issue, but the lack of Quartz Extreme support makes things a little choppy for wallpaper transitions and other things.

My question is this: what 64 MB PCI cards are out there and can be recomended? Any info would be appreciated.

 

[eyoungren]

After a lot of study and some nosing around eBay, I took the plunge and bought a 32 MB ATI Rage 6 PCI video card with VGA, DVI, and S-Video. When it came, I first tested it on my testbed G4 MDD Dual 1.0 with satisfactory results.

I then transplanted the card to my G5 Dual 2.0 and it works fine.

After working with a triple monitor setup between the stock G5's ATI Radeon 9600 XT and the Rage 6, I'm a little disappointed that the Rage 6 doesn't work as well as I had hoped it would. It works fine and I can see my HP 19 inch widescreen monitor without issue, but the lack of Quartz Extreme support makes things a little choppy for wallpaper transitions and other things.

My question is this: what 64 MB PCI cards are out there and can be recomended? Any info would be appreciated.

You might want to try an ATI Radeon 9200. I got one at eBay auction for $15. I was the only bidder. 128MB ram, VGA/DVI/S-Video. Came out of a guy's B&W G3 and works perfect in my G4.

 

[Intell]

The best PCI card for non-OS 9 Macs is the GeForce 5200. It can natively do CoreImage on Leopard and can come with 256MB ram, DVI, S-Video, and VGA. Only problem is you'll have to flash it yourself. The 256MB ones are slightly faster than Apple's OEM GeForce 5200's, plus have 3x the ram.

 

[robertdsc]

OK. I'll give both cards a look. I wound up removing the Rage 6 card from the G5 as its use was giving small issues, like clicks in audio feed when moving things around on the screen and the aforementioned lack of QuartzExtreme. Once I toss one of the above cards in, I hope things smooth out some. Thanks.