ATI 100-435317 Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition for G5 256MB AGP Video Card

• I bought this video card to speed up Aperture on my G5 tower, and it has more than doubled the speed of the app. A photo with lots of adjustments, particularly spot healing, still bogs down everything, though. I took off one stare for the fan noise. It's not overly bad or obtrusive, but it can be heard constantly when the G5's fans are at their lowest setting.
• I'd like to add that the X800 XT for Mac worked wonderfully (once I received a working replacement from ATI) with my G5-2.0 using Tiger, but now upon upgrading to Leopard the fans are a little louder (noticeable but not terrible), and I periodically get a flash of green or pink on my entire 30" Cinema Display screen when trashing a file or closing a window or application. This may only be a problem with the combination of G5-Leopard-30" Apple Cinema Display.Ivor

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ATI Rage 128VR 32MB PCI VGA Video Card

• Had to replace the video card in my old Apple G3 blue and white yosemite. It worked fine.
• I bought this video card to replace the on board video that is fading. I wondered why it would never work until I found out there are no drivers for Windows XP. I spent a good deal of time searching and I got nothing. Anything before XP you should be ok. Manufacturer website was no help.

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EVGA 01G-P3-1080-TR GeForce GTX285 for Mac 1024 MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card

• This is the fastest 3D graphics card you can get for the Mac, as of this writing. Installation was trouble-free in both OS X 10.6.1 and Windows 7 64-bit in Boot Camp. My system is a dual quad 2.8GHz Mac Pro (early 2008 model). I took out the stock ATI 2600 card before putting this one into the x16 PCI Express 2.0 slot.In OS X, I didn't have to do anything, as drivers for the 285 GTX are included in 10.6.1. I did end up downloading newer drivers in Windows after installing the 285. Several days later Windows prompted me to upgrade the drivers again. Adding the card caused Windows 7 to require reactivation.For Windows gaming users only:Here are performance numbers from the Crysis Benchmark Tool…
• I imagine the card works fine, but the description does not disclose that it does not work with the earlier versions of MacPro. It should say"Requires Mac Pro (Early 2009 with 1066MHz DDR3 memory) or Mac Pro (Early 2008 with 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory) with PCI Express 2.0 slot. Card is not compatible with version ____ and 1,1..."Also, the instructions that are included do not say anything about installing the driver at all. So before removing your old card, be sure to run the included installer and it will check to see if your system will support the card (I regretfully installed the card first which waisted a lot of time, as the power cables are very small for full size hands to…

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BFG GeForce 7800 GS OC 256 MB GDDR3 AGP Graphics Card

• Game settings that choked my old card (GeForce FX5950 Ultra 256MB) to 5fps now go at tolerable 20fps with this card, while my computer's 3DMark05 score with the old card was 1262 (LOL!) and flew up to 5457 when the BFG GeForce 7800 was swapped into the system. With the old card, my comp was in the basement at the 9th percentile among 277,000+ systems tested, and went to the 57th percentile overall. It was in the top 10% of P4 systems. Basically, the GeForce 7800 took my old system as high as an AGP/P4 system can go.No compatability issues so far (3 weeks of use) on 15 or so games. I'm pleased that I can run games such as Oblivion, Guild Wars, Eve, and FlightSim at detail settings that are satisfying.BFG…
• I upgraded my August 2003 Alienware computer from a 256mB GeForce FX 5900 Ultra to this card based upon more than one recommendation that this was the fastests AGP card made. Even though though this means that the technology is still old in terms of currently available products. Once the PCI-e standard became established, and eventually SLI technology became the mainstay, AGP products quickly became the dinosaurs of PC technology. While I still feel there is still some get and and go in my old mule of a PC, this change of video standards made my PC virtually obsolete. There is little chance I can get a lot more use out of it, when this is the last stop on the upgrade trail.Still, I am surprised…

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Sapphire Radeon HD6850 Toxic 1 GB DDR5 2DVI/HDMI/2x Mini DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card 100315TXSR

• I bought this ATI card instead of it's same-model counterpart that was about $30 less because of the mini displayport outputs. I have one of the new 27" Apple Cinema displays and I wanted to make sure I could plug it directly into the card. It works great! It supports the max resolution, and even the iSight camera, speakers and USB hub. I'm also hooking up the card to my Sony 46" tv so I can use my system as a media center. The presets allow me to switch back and forth in one click while leaving the thing plugged in at all times. Lastly, this thing is BEEFY. It takes up two slots and is quite heavy -- I have no doubts that this thing can crank out some serious pixels without the worry of overheating!

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NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac by PNY 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express Gen 2 x16 DVI-I DL, DisplayPort and Stereo OpenGL, DirectX (Boot Camp), CUDA and OpenCL Profesional Graphics Board, VCQ4000MAC-PB

• The fact that it has 2 GB of VRAM doesn't mean squat. You can't run X-Plane 10 at all.Save your money unless you need it for a specific purpose
• Works as advertised. I needed it for use of DaVinci Resolve software, a professional color correction program that relies on the off CPU image processing this card provides.But be warned...NVIDIA has still not created a LION driver for mac users that will work for this card, so to use it you must be running Snow Leopard. I just threw another hard drive in my Mac Pro and created a different "world'" to boot into that featured the obsolete OS to make NVIDIA happy! But, that's an advanced extreme move that some may not be able/have luck with/ have patience ....to do.I have installed three of these cards in the last few months, and all worked fine on inital boots. No problems so far. (Longest…

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Matrox Triple Head 2 Go DP Edition T2G-DP-IF - Retail

• The product does everything it says in the specs and it does it well. The only reason I didn't give it 5 of 5 stars is because it really wants a third screen in place. If you buy the 3H2GO, you need 3 screens unless you have a majorly tunable graphics card program. I run a MBP i7, summer of 2010, and it doesn't know how to just use two of three ports on the 3H2GO DP. Also the mac stretches out the screens somewhat. I am running twin 24" Acer LCD P244W. I think it would work better with X3 22's and if I could adjust the resolution a bit more on the MAC I think it would be perfect.But as I mentioned it does exactly what it advertised so I can't complain.
• I had to write this review in response to another review that says the TripleHead won't work well with just two monitors. I run two monitors all the time. The trick is to use output #1 and #3 if you are using just two of the three outputs.My 3H2G DP works well with my 17" MacBookPro as well with my new Mac Pro with an ATI 5870 video card. I run two monitors at 1920x1080 each.The only bummer is you need to buy a mini DisplayPort to (full size) DisplayPort cable and if you are running to DVI monitors (like I do) you need a (full size) DisplayPort to DVI connecter for each output. (note, Apples Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapters will not work, has to be Full size DisplayPort). So figure an extra…

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