Stewie de Young wrote:
The Radeon 9800 series are about the best value for money.
The nvidias are faster ( 6800 and 7800s ) but also quite a bit more
expensive too.
I have a MDD with a flashed 9800XT - 256mb and while a hot running
card , it is a good performer.
If you go this route , remove the original fan that came on these
9800s and boost it up to something better.
These cards burn out a lot as the original fans were quite poor and
prone to failure leading to the videocards being fried.
Stewie
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Absolutely right:- I had a 9800 in my heavily upgraded Sawtooth (SATA
Card, OWC 1.5gig CPU etc.,) and it ran VERY hot, with the card packing
up after some 7 or 8 weeks. ATI (or rather, AMD) replaced it eventually,
but with a 128 MB model, not a 256MB as I returned, but with all the
hassle of to-ing and fro-ing the card between the UK & Canada, I didn't
bother to argue with them.
Picked up my current G5 dual 2.0 a few weeks later at a good price -
which I've done nothing to, other than fit the SATA card, with an eSATA
backplane, and max the RAM to 4GB.
Ted
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