Video Card to upgrade?

Jeff,

I can't comment firsthand on anything but the Radeon 7500, which I'm running in my G4 DA. It works fine with Quartz Extreme, though sometimes I think that a card with 64MB might be better.

I've read that the Radeon 7000 is a slow card. You might want to check xlr8yourmac for reviews of these cards.

John

The radeon 7000 is two steps down from the R 7500. of the three the R 7500 will give the better performance

R 7000 = RV100 core

Radeon(7200) = R100 core

R 7500 = RV200 core

R 8500 = R200 core

RV cores have deactivated processing units and are slower than R cores of the same generation.

Hi Jeff,

Another choice you may want to consider is an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I can vouch for it --got the 64MB for my own Gigabit.

Peace,

F

R 9000 = RV300 core

R 9600 = RV350 core

R 9650 = RV360 core

R 9700 = R300 core

R 9800 = R350 core

R9800XT=R360 core

R X800 = R420 core

Jeff,

Last year you gave me some help with upgrading the optical drive on a PCI Graphics, and you recommended upgrading the ATI Rage 128 at some time. I finally upgraded to the Radeon 7000 64MB. When I select shutdown, the system will go to a blank screen with hollow spinning beach ball but never shuts down. Upon restart I get the error message about not properly shut down. Ant ideas on fixing the problem? Card detals from the Profiler is below. Thanks.

Name: ATY,RV100ad_B
Type: display
Bus: PCI
Slot: J12
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x5159
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1002
Subsystem ID: 0x0908
Revision ID: 0x0000

I think you're referring to me (not the "Jeff Furse" that posted this topic) and the recommendations that I made in your post back in October. Did the shutdown quirk occur as soon as you installed the flashed Radeon card, or did everything function normally for a while? Beyond Tiger updates, what other software have you installed?

Thanks Jeff, sorry I got the wrong Jeff. The shut down issue began as soon as I installed the new card.The only new software I have installed is the Radeon January 2005 update and ATI displays v4.5.7.

The Radeon January 2005 Update was current for OS 10.3.6. From ATI's web site: "If you have a newer release of Mac OS X, you should already have the required ATI components as part of your OS. Running this installer will not install anything. This installer and its core driver set are not compatible with Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4. Tiger already includes its own versions of the ATI core drivers." Your system info indicates that you're running Tiger (10.4.9), so did the Radeon January 2005 installer give any indication that it would not install drivers, because newer ones were found?

It went through the installation process very quickly, the status bar shot over to the right as being complete and it indicated 0 items remaining to install. It then said that the installation was not necessary. I also tried to perform a software update, but that has been unsuccessful. The checking for new software status bar gets to about 15% complete and stagnates; the ripples comtinue to be seen in the bar indicating that it processing. I cancelled out after 15 minutes (broadband connection) of no change in status. I also tried to reinstall the OS but neither drive became available for the install after 10 meniutes. I am working on backing up software and I'll reformat and install the OS. I'll let you know the outcome.

Very bizarre. Shut down issue is resolved. I switched back to the Rage 128 to try to isolate the issue to the new card. The old card had the same issues. I put the new card back in and all is fine now. I am sure that everything was installed properly the first time.

Hopefully, it will continue functioning normally.

Hya, I just upgraded my mac (the same as yours G4 gig) with a Radeon 9800 Pro Mac version (128mb) and it works great... you might consider fitting the Arctic cooling Fan 1 it uses a PCI slot but is quieter than the stock fan and it exhausts to the back of the cabinet.. thus keeping things inside cool...
For the Fan:::
http://www.thecoolingshop.com/productinfo.php/productsid/1132
For the card::: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mac-ATI-9800-Pro-128mb-PowerMac-G4-G5-Video-card_W0QQitemZ 250134472037QQihZ015QQcategoryZ25449QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I have no vested interest in either of the above links and neither will provide profit or gain for me. Posted for courtesy only.
Hope this helps

Do any of these cards have an ADC connector? I bought a Radeon 9800 Mac Special Edition which had an Apple Display Connector, only to find out it didn't work in my machine. No loss, I sold is on ebay for more.

Does the Radeon 9000 have an ADC version?

Edit: I found a 9000 w/ADC. Thanks anyway.