John, In the technical sense, this could be an answer: http://www.barefeats.com/rad9650.html.
In real life, you might not see a huge difference. But it actually makes some kind of difference. A couple years ago I had a 450Mhz dual Mystic, 2 gigs of RAM, running Leopard with an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, and it was adequate, minus the eye candy. But when I replaced the Radeon with a flashed 256Mb GeForce 6200, the Mystic just got unleashed. It ran circles around my 1.25Ghz eMac, which also had two gigs of (much faster) memory but a merely adequate video card. I know this is all anecdotal, but in the end the user experience is what counts. So enjoy your bumped-up system with the blue lights... :-) HTH, Felix On Nov 6, 7:20 pm, JohnCarmonne <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a G5 Dual 2.7 6GB that I recently swapped out the ATI Radeon 9650 with > a Radeon 9800 Pro complete with a large copper colored fan sporting blue > lights that can be seen through the cheese grater holes in the case:-) > My question is what increased video experience should I expect? I'm not a > gammer and so far I'm thinking I may have just spit in the wind on this > upgrade. I guess what I want to know is how can I see a beneficial video > change from my investment? I like to max out my Macs just because it's fun to > see the results but this video stuff has me wondering? > > John Carmonne > Yorba Linda CA > 92886 USA > MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
