[G4] Best graphics card for a G4 MDD

[Kristen R]

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On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Jon Scordia wrote:

> Hi folks, A few months ago I set my parents up with a great Dual  
> Mirrored Door G4 Mac (Dual 1GHz) but it's paltry 32mb graphics card  
> is letting it down.
>
> Can you please recommend me the best options for a new graphics  
> card for this machine? I believe there was a built to order option  
> for a NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 128 MB graphics card.
>
> But is there anything better?
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jon

Jon,

	I thought I would update this thread. I just purchased a Mac Edition  
ATI Radeon 9800 (R350 processor series) with 256MB memory. I found it  
on ebay and this card is brand new. I spent a total of $73.00 for it.  
The price I paid was less then other ATI Radeon cards with 128MB  
memory, all selling as used. So I feel I found an exceptional deal.

	I was hoping for something dramatic from this card but I didn't  
really see that much of a difference with it. True I now can see  
photos full size on my 22" monitor which I could not before. And  
photos no longer have that chopped edge look to them nor do they have  
a white leading edge. And so Aperture works very well indeed as does  
my Canon software. I can now enjoy iLife 08. Except for iMovie which  
won't install because I do not have a 2.0GHz processor nor a G5. I  
did find a website which gives a hack for that so some other day  
perhaps I'll play with that.

	I experimented with viewing flash from espn.go.com on 3 web  
browsers, Camino, Safari, and TenFourFox. In all cases attempting to  
watch a sports broadcast gave such jerky results it would be  
difficult to watch or enjoy. TenFourFox presented the video's the  
best of the three. Going to youtube.com and watching various video's  
displayed just find in all three browsers. You couldn't tell any  
difference at all and they were all fully acceptable.

I hope this helps out

Kristen

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