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Re: Want to upgrade my Power Mac graphics card
« on: October 26, 2010, 04:08:54 PM »
Looks like the ATI Radeon 7500 is the card you want according to Other World Computing (macsales.com).  They're asking $59 for a new one.  I've used OWC for most of my Mac needs and have always had a good experience.

You can see the card at:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/1028342302/
 

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Re: Want to upgrade my Power Mac graphics card
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 04:37:49 PM »
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That card has 32MB video memory, and thus it wouldn't be much of a upgrade.
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The 7500 was the only card listed to work with the 466 mhz model.  If you have used the other models on this model PowerMac, and it worked, great! I've found some of the older PowerMacs can be picky about video cards.

The 7500 is double video memory and supports Quartz Extreme which was implemented in OSX 10.2.  Quartz Extreme isn't available on his current card so the 7500 would be an improvement.
 

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