[X4U] G5 Video Card Question

[Zane H. Healy]

At 6:03 PM -0500 4/2/08, Rod Buchanan wrote:
>I have a first-gen PowerMac G5 (2x2) with the original 64MB Radeon 
>9600 graphics card.  The machine still runs great, but video 
>performance can be slow at times.  Would upgrading to a ATI RADEON 
>9600 PRO (256MB) help performance?
>
>I'm looking to get by as cheap as I can (it's too old to invest a 
>lot of money in).


I'm running the same system.  Let me guess you're looking at running 
Aperture?  This was why I went with Adobe Lightroom.  I'm not sure 
there is an *affordable* video card upgrade available unless you get 
lucky.  At this point the only upgrades that really make sense are HD 
upgrades, as they can be moved to a new Mac Pro.  Having said that, 
I'm sitting at 5.5GB, and moving to 8GB is getting tempting.

Zane


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