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    Radeon 9800 pro 256 better?

    Anyone try this card out and does it deliver better performance at all?

    CC

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    Quote Originally Posted by litemover
    Anyone try this card out and does it deliver better performance at all?

    CC
    I dont think its available yet.

    http://www.ati.com/buy/pricesmacusa.html
    its not listed on ati's price list - so its not available yet.
    I spoke to the ati developer relations a while back, and they indicated april time.
    I dont think the card will be 'faster'.


    The performance limit that most people will come up against first of all is poor hard discs. ( i think you have explored a few of these options )

    scsi is the way to go here - if you want ultimate performance.

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    radeon platinum 256mb is available!

    Richard,

    I just saw one at Fry's, the Excalibur 9800PRO IceQ 256 meg but didn't want to buy it till I got your ok.

    It was made for mac too, or maybe someone put it in the mac aree, I'll double check it. Supposedly there is a performance increase made in the card.

    Christian

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    Quote Originally Posted by litemover
    Richard,

    I just saw one at Fry's, the Excalibur 9800PRO IceQ 256 meg but didn't want to buy it till I got your ok.

    It was made for mac too, or maybe someone put it in the mac aree, I'll double check it. Supposedly there is a performance increase made in the card.

    Christian
    Thats not a mac card. Thats a third party card.
    In my experience no third party pc graphics card has ever worked in a mac, they need different information to be given to the os.

    Right now, the performance limit is not the graphics card.
    There may be some operating system limit related to the way the graphics card is handled, but that is not the same thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by litemover
    Anyone try this card out and does it deliver better performance at all?

    CC
    Christian - you going to buy one and see if it works?
    If you buys from frys and it doesnt blow up you can always take it back.


    RRR

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    naw I swear i saw a 256 version for mac, I'll go back there once I'm done with my current project.

    Christian

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    Quote Originally Posted by litemover
    naw I swear i saw a 256 version for mac, I'll go back there once I'm done with my current project.

    Christian
    There is one coming out. It was shown at macworld.

    http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/...=1081302413000

    And its due out very soon.

    But it will be an ATI product.

    I tried to order one in January directly through ATI developer support - but they havent got them yet.

    There are no aftermarket graphics products that work in Macs.

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    Next generation graphics cards

    Christian.

    This line is rumoured to be the next generation:

    http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=2018

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