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(More customer reviews)I upgraded my G5 workstation to this card for better gaming and Motion graphics performance, and it does deliver the on screen portion very well. Everything is super-smooth and beautiful quality.
HOWEVER, the heat from the card -- even with its own fan, makes my G5 fans run about 2x the RPM they used to. Consequently my machine is now more noisy, very noisy when playing high performance games. Worse still this thing will heat up a small, closed in office very quickly. You can literally feel the temp rise in the room after a few minutes of heavy use.
Last, the instructions that came with the card are wrong as far as power supply connectivity. I think they packaged old instructions with a new card but who knows.
So, if you're in a noisy office with good ventilation, you'll love this card. Otherwise think twice about the environmental consequences before you plunk the money down.
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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition - For those of you who like to ride on the bleeding edge of technology, the Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition offers you the ultimate in Mac gaming graphics! Supporting today's latest video games, as well as those yet to come, this video card features 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, support for both 4x and 8x AGP bus configurations, 8 parallel rendering pipelines, 4 parallel geometry engines, support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 specifications, and much much more.Supports up to 2048x1536 @ 85Hz with 16.7 Million Colors Requires - Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, AGP 4x or 2x capable Macintosh, Power Mac G5, & 512MB of system memory
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