Thanks Ben. I managed to find another Ge6600 on eBay and it works like
a charm. Only the one HD monitor on the second card and I think I've
seen a reasonable bump in performance as a result. Much joy!
Cheers,
Greg
On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Ben Greenfield wrote:
On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Detour wrote:
I've got a dual 2.3Ghz G5 from late '05 that I use at home for
running QC compositions in my studio. It's still got the original
GeForce 6600 in it and I run the graphics outputs to 2 flat
screens. Recently I put a larger HD screen in the studio which has
VGA input and I've been dreaming of running it as a third monitor
for the G5 specifically for outputting compositions at full screen.
My research on video card options thus far has been kind of
confusing so far. Discussions on Apple forums for G5 seem to
suggest you need a PCIe card that is specifically Mac compatable
and that you can't get them easily or cheap. Does anyone else run a
G5 desktop configuration with multiple videos cards? Any
recommendations from the QC users in this situation?
When those machines were current I used one with all four slots
filled. This worked and I think I was using nvidia 6600s which were
cheap. I also think that I had problems if I tired to mix and match
the high-end cards video with the low-end. I think I was only able
to use three monitors at a time. I also think the problem I would
see while trying to use all four cards was that the last 25% of a
monitor had a feathery edge were the graphics ended and the rest of
the screen was black.
Thanks,
Ben
Thanks,
Greg
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