Video Card For Mac G5 Tower

Okay so, I have a PowerMac G5 with 3 PCIx slots and one AGP slot. I also have three monitors, one with a ADC connection [but I do have the ADC to DVI Apple adapter][max resolution: 1280x1024], one with a VGA connection [but I do have an VGA to DVI Apple adapter][max resolution: 1024x768], and one with an S-Video connection [if needed I can go buy the S-Video to DVI Apple adapter][max resolution: 1024x768].

The purpose it to run Final Cut Pro on the first two while running a preview of the footage on the third. Since my bus is practically outdated, I'd like to get the best cards, for PCI, I think that's ATI's Radeon 9200, but for the AGP, I'm not entirely sure. Everyone was leading me towards the ATI Radeon 9800 [256] and the nVidia 6800, but then I just noticed the ATI Radeon X800 and the nVidia 7800, so now I'm not so sure. What do you all think?

Any incite would be great. You may already know this but it bears repeating: If you have an AGP Mac you cannot use the Apple GeForce 7800GT, because it is a PCIe (PCI Express) card. Your AGP Mac uses PCI-X expansion slots, but these are not compatible with PCIe video cards. You need an AGP card. It is possible to find certain early PC GeForce 7800-class AGP cards and flash them to the Mac - but they must be cards that use the G70 core GPU, not the G71 that most later cards have. See forums (the successor to StrangeDogs) for details. But if you don't want to mess with flashing a card your best AGP Apple-compatible option would be an Apple Radeon X850XT.

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It's a bit faster than the X800XT, but harder to find because it was BTO-only. Both X800-class cards offer good performance.

The two 6800-class cards are also good (I'm quite happy with my flashed 6800GT), but the Ultra is a double-wide monster of a card. Hp photosmart d110 software download. Unfortunately no, that was a flashed PC card. The strangedogs (now The Mac Elite) video card flashing forum had success flashing a G70-based 7800GS AGP to the Mac using a hacked ROM (can't remember which ROM was used, may have been the 7300 Apple ROM). You need to find a similar card to the original hacked card or the ROM won't work. Certain GS, GT and GTX cards can be done this way but you need a G70-based card.many(most?) 7800-class cards are G71-based. The Radeon X850XT is the fastest official video card out there for the AGP Macs. IF you do a flashed 7800-class card it will be faster than the X850XT, of course.

But there was never a 'genuine' 7800-class card for AGP Macs. (sorry if this is a somewhat old post) As someone who literally flashed a x800 card for my very same PCI-X G5 (dual 2.7) yesterday there are a couple things to point out: First off: As far as I know there are NO ROMs for the x800 which enable the DVI ports digitally. VGA and DVI work, but not as a digital output on the DVI. The FireGL 256 (which is a FireGL version of the x800) does work, but they're rare and costly. Second: The x800 is a very fast card. I had the stock Radeon 9650 installed and got ~30-90 FPS in World of Warcraft and 250-300 in Quake 3. After installing the card WoW does 90-200 and Quake 3 350-400 (or higher, the numbers change rapidly ) I used a Sapphire x800 XT.