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Highest Video Card on a G5?

got a G5 off ebay updated ram, os, harddrive, installed aircard ,but when i watch videos the quality is not good at all the connection is solid but not clear enough whats the hiest video card that can be installed into a mac g5 , please someone let me know...

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), My first Mac!!!!

Posted on Nov 28, 2011 12:03 AM

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Nov 28, 2011 1:18 AM in response to Jtabar258

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.

Nov 28, 2011 1:35 AM in response to japamac

Apple Power Mac A1047 Desktop Single Processor Power PC G5 1.60 Ghz 80 GB HD 1.25 GB RAM W/DVD-ROM Drive/ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB Card/Pre-Installed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Software

MODEL: A1047

SINGLE PROCESSOR: POWER PC G5

PROCESSOR SPEED: 1.60 GHZ

HARD DRIVE: YES INCLUDED/80 GB SATA

MEMORY: 1.25 GB RAM

FLOPPY DRIVE: NOT INCLUDED

DVD-ROM DRIVE: YES INCLUDED/TOSHIBA

USB PORTS: 2 IN THE BACK AND 2 IN THE FRONT

TOWER/DESKTOP: TOWER

COA STICKER: NONE

VIDEO CARD: YES INCLUDED/ATI RADEON 9600 128 MB

Dec 31, 2011 5:14 PM in response to Jtabar258

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.

Aug 31, 2013 12:00 PM in response to japamac

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.

Aug 31, 2013 4:18 PM in response to fordnats

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

Sep 1, 2013 2:39 PM in response to BDAqua

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 🙂

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