Difficulty Shopping For Graphics Cards, Can Anyone Help!

[Mike_Amiga]

I want to buy either an ATi Radeon 9000 Pro or an Nvidia Geforce MX Mac Edition in the UK, or if you know a company that will ship to the UK that would also be useful.

I'd like to be playing some relatively modern games, but with my current card that's unlikely.

I have looked at their respective Websites and got nowhere, I phoned a few UK suppliers they recommended on these sites. A typical response "Certainly sir, ah! you want it for a Mac, sorry can't help." or words to that effect.  

Apple will sell me one, but only in a new computer that I can't afford and don't want. I wonder are they hogging all these new cards for their new machines? :-D

Suspicious me.:roll:

Any alternatives reasonably close to the power of these graphics cards would be nice, but no totally outdated crap thanks.  8-)

[Mike_Amiga]

Hello my ducklings, just checking you read the first bit of the thread, I want a card for my Mac.

I'm more of a retro Amigan I'm affraid, my next upgade miggy wise will be an A1200, when I can afford it and when I'm not looking for stupidly overpriced graphics cards for Mac which I've scrimped and saved for.

Pass the bong what-ever-your-or-name-is. :-P  :-D  ;-)

[Mike_Amiga]

@AntonioX

Thanks! So far I've found a ATI Radeon 8500 AGP MAC 64Mb DDR   for £ 249.95 on www.microanvika.co.uk.

Not the one that I want, but it's one of the only places that doesn't want me to buy a card inside a machine so far, I'll check the others though no point going off half cocked, as they say. 8-)

Thanks also to everyone else. ;-)

(UPDATED by Mike_Amiga 2003)

Now I've gone and bought it. Hope my credit card doesn't max out.

[Mike_Amiga]

I'll tell you if its crap or not when I get it, anythings got to be better than a Rage 128 though, right?

[Mike_Amiga]

blobrana wrote:
Yes you`ll find it a lot better for games/dvd , twin monitors ( for zoom views in Quake3d! ).

As for productivity, the rage 128 is just as good...

BTW. i couldn`t get any links on the choons page :-?

True for productivity in Photoshop etc a Rage 128 will do it's job more than adequately, but I'm mainly purchasing for improved games performance.

 :-D

[Mike_Amiga]

@blobrana

Wayne did say he was changing the site so HTML links wouldn't work or something, but my link seems to be working and it looks like HTML to me?:-?  

He said something about using BB Code instead. I just checked the code most people are using on this site for links and it looks the same as the stuff I'm using.

Weird :-?

What computer you using? Could that make a difference? Can anyone sort this out? Maybe the server was busy or taken down that night for repair when you tryed to use the link. :-? :-?  :-?

Works fine on my Mac. 8-)