Nvidia Card for Apple Computer

[James Bond]

My dad's G4 went down recently, and Apple was kind enough to give him a $4000 credit towards anything he wants.

Of course, he went through and picked out a bunch of top of the line stuff for a brand new G5. Before he finished his order, he had me look at the video card he had chosen and I noticed that it was a piece of crap, but really expensive. The best card on their site that I saw was an X1900, but it was like $400...

He wants a good video card, so I'm hoping to find something that is >= 8800GTS. Price is not very important.

Any advice?

 

[AmdInside]

Well, there aren't that many options. That sounds about right. The ATI card is going to be the fastest Mac card you can buy. NVIDIA cards are made by Apple and Apple does not make NVIDIA cards as upgrades for older Macs. They prefer customers buy new computers, not upgrade their machines. So you won't find any AGP solutions from Apple that are current. ATI makes their own cards for retail so that is a different matter.

 

[James Bond]

You're telling me that the X1900 is the fastest card for a Mac on the market? That seems pretty ridiculous considering the amount of graphical work done on them...

 

[JBT]

x1950xt is the fastest in the retail market.

Also graphics card don't do anything for "graphic" work thats pretty much all CPU and RAM. Video cards only do 3D hardware acceleration.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: JBT
x1950xt is the fastest in the retail market.

Also graphics card don't do anything for "graphic" work thats pretty much all CPU and RAM. Video cards only do 3D hardware acceleration.

Where would be the best place to buy one, other than Apple.com?

Do I need a "special" one, for mac?

 

[JBT]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000K...=sz-ce-20&linkCode=asnAmazon.com G5 Edition

 

[themisfit610]

The video card does actually do a lot on the mac. The entire desktop is composited, and having a faster card helps with certain applications like Aperture, and Shake.

I'm pretty sure that by G5 you mean MacPro. Apple hasn't sold PowerPC desktops for quite a long time

It's sad but true that Apple is a solid 3 generations behind in GPUs. There just isn't the hardcore gaming market that drives PC vendors to stay up to date...

It's supposedly possible to get regular cards working on a MacPro by using an EFI hack, but that's ugly and not very elegant. Even if you could, drivers would be tricky.

~MiSfit