Q: Highest Video Card on a G5?

If the machine is an AGP graphics model, the Radeon X800XT or X850XT are the absolute fastest.

The Geforce 6800 Ultra is almost as fast and is a better buy.

For video playback, a graphics card is not everything, but if you have a Geforce FX 5200 or Radeon 9600, you will benefit from a graphics upgrade.

For cost/performance, the Gefdorce 68700 Ultra is a best buy.

i want to get a 512 mb for this machine

There is no AGP card with 512 MB VRAM that will work in a G5 and OS X.

A flashed Gainward 512 MB card can be used, but only 256 MB is used by a PPC Mac in OS X.

All common, possible AGP options are listed here:

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You just cant get better G4/G5 Video card help thn japamac provides, he's always 100% !

update the card came in the mail and didnt fit the board, so i put it in a spare pc that i had , thanks for nothing japmac!!

So you didn't check that the card was Mac/OS X compatible or not?

Well, shame on me for your stupidity.

If your machine is AGP graphics, you buy a Mac compatible AGP graphics card.

If your machine is PCIe graphics, then you buy a Mac compatible PCIe graphics card.

Pretty simple stuff, I'd say.

YOU said your machine was an AGP machine AFTER I said that the fastest AGP card was a Radeon X800 or X850XT.

If the card didn't fit, then it isn't AGP. THAT'S not my mistake.

BTW, the fastest PCIe graphics card possible is a flashed Geforce 7800 GTX. The PCIe X800 Pro or whatever was pretty slow and couldn't be used in a Mac, flashed or not......

Oh, you don't have a PCIe graphics G5..........right?

Now you say that OS doesn't have anything to do with "it".

Well, Mr Knowitall, OS has everything to do with every focking piece of hardware in every focking machine.

If there are no drivers for the hardware in the OS, the hardware is worthless.

If the OS uses OF or EFI or whatever, a piece of hardware must also use that protocol in it's ROM.

IF you don't check OS compatibility with a piece of hardware, YOU are the idiot.

No idea how you bought a card that didn't fit, or how that could be japamac's doing!?

Hi Japamac, gonna drag this out some. took delivery of a Power Mac, I believe to be a http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_dual_2.3.htm l  . I plan to use it for usual domestic internet use, movie dl's, playback via the likes of vlc and also, hopefully, some electronic music production, probably using  Reason, seeing as I have that software already. The Mac appears to be pretty much 'out of the box', apart from no HD's, which hopefully is being sorted as I speak. I am wondering if I should consider swapping the standard non-cooled graphics card for one of these.. http://http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSI-GeForce-6800-ULTRA-PCI-e-512MB-2x-DVI-video -graphics-card-/161095271303?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_ TV_Cards_TW&hash=item258206c387  , is this gonna help my mac in the duties I am hoping to acheive, and is it compatible and cost-effective?

Thanks in advance, Jason.

Hello, sadly master japamac hasn't participated gere in some time.

Your 1st link got a space between .htm & the l...

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_dual_2.3.htm l

2nd link should be...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSI-GeForce-6800-ULTRA-PCI-e-512MB-2x-DVI-video%20-gra phics-card-/161095271303?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_%20T V_Cards_TW&hash=item258206c387

Looks like a PC card, do you know about flashing it with Mac ROMs?

And I'm not sure it can be done or not...

http://themacelite.wikidot.com/wikidownloads2

The only thing I attempted to flash did not make it out of the other side, whether it would have anyway is anyone's guess, but I am just looking to find a budget plug and play card, and I had seen in another discussion someone recommending the aforementioned being just that for a power mac.. Have you any ideas or should I just open a fresh discussion?

Cheers,  J