video upgrade

[choasforages]

now that i own a 9500, what would be the best upgrade route, radeon, or geforce./*yes, im a mac newbie*/

[cocoamix]

No GeForce for that Mac. No AGP. You're limited to PCI cards, the best being a Radeon.
Should be more than enough for a computer that old.

[rtgwbmsr]

A Proc. upgrade wouldn't kill you (or your wallet)

Conveniently, both the video card and the processor upgrades are all on one page!
Vid Card & Proc Upgrades

Caution: They list AGP cards on there. They will not work in that Mac - The 9500 has no AGP slot! Trust me!

After looking at the specs of that machine, you may want to consider a hard drive upgrade before a video card...depending on what you plan on doing with the thing.

[ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

[choasforages]

i was planning on putting a g4 800mhz in it with a bunch of large scsi drives and a better video card. and a usb2.0/firewire card for kicks. then i want to max out the ram in it and go for osx

and i have seen geforce pci cards for macs

[ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

[psyjax]

You can buy GeForece 2 PCI cards, and Radeon 7000 PCI cards from MacMall pretty cheep. I would recomend the ATI because it has video in/out. Thrugh S-video that is. Now adays you can do video in thrugh firewire if that's what you need.

[cocoamix]

I like the S-video out on the Radeon Cards. I can send my computer output to my TV or VCR and record my Mac to video tape.  

[choasforages]

will the radeon be able to run quartz extreme?

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
will the radeon be able to run quartz extreme?

yes...

at least it gives me no trouble.

Make sure you download the latest drivers from ATI.

[choasforages]

on apples site i read it had to be an agp radeon or any gefore, then agian, the 9500 isn't listed under 10.2 support either

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
on apples site i read it had to be an agp radeon or any gefore, then agian, the 9500 isn't listed under 10.2 support either

Oh, there are ways. Don't worry, weather or not OSX takes advantage of the graphics accleration provided by the ATI I don't know. Can it run off that ATI, yes. Maybe the graphics are being handled by software, but my comp. is pretty top end so I don't notice any big diffrence.

[rtgwbmsr]

quote:Originally posted by psyjax v6.9 /Dave: Mac Zealot:
Oh, there are ways. Don't worry, weather or not OSX takes advantage of the graphics accleration provided by the ATI I don't know. Can it run off that ATI, yes. Maybe the graphics are being handled by software, but my comp. is pretty top end so I don't notice any big diffrence.

You can make Quartz Extreme take advantage of a PCI card...check out www.xlr8yourmac.com I'll post specific links later.