Buy an ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 graphics card. I’m pretty sure Alienware PCs use this card. The most powerful Mac Pro Desktop computer uses this card. If you don’t want ATI Radeon, then go with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB GDDR3 graphics card and use it. Either way, those two cards are very powerful seeing that Alienware PCs and Mac Pro Desktops use one or the other.
Cept he has an AGP mobo. And you can’t buy GT 120s and they suck. I dunno where they fit in relative to other cards, but the specs for 4850s are better. I wouldn’t use Mac Pros as a graphics benchmark except maybe with the Quadro cards, and even then, meh. I wouldn’t use Alienware either.
Okay. What about an NVIDIA 9400M or a NVIDIA 9600M GT? Would that work for this individual whose graphics card is not working?
Obvious Mac Troll is obvious
HURRR shut up, my 9400M can play crysis on low at 10fps, that’s like, fast!
Oh yeah? My family comp back home has an nVidia TNT2 from sometime in the 90s. This graphics card can’t run HALO. And we’re talking HALO 1 here. Damn comp barely runs firefox… and my dad refuses to upgrade it.
I have a laptop that crashes occasionally in Fallout 2.
It can’t run Half-Life without crashing.
It takes over ten minutes to start up.
Anyways, @OP: Get a new graphics card. Better yet, a whole new computer. I suggest the Nvidia 9800 GTX+ and higher.
No.
Why? It can run almost any game currently in existence on the highest settings, it’s relatively inexpensive and doesn’t require as much power as the newer cards.
but it sucks
I don’t understand how something can suck yet run amazingly.
The creator of this thread should get the most powerful ATI Radeon graphics card that he can afford. ATI Radeon is better than Nvidia. Tests on my computer’s website have proven that.
yeah except the 9800GTX+ is not the most powerful card nvidia has to offer.
Nice of you to post an enormous claim without even having any data, and you quote a site that you do not link to.
@Sersoft: I wasn’t recommending the most powerful. I was recommending it because it is very powerful, inexpensive (both cost and power-wise) and I have had a good experience with it.
I’ve had a good experience with my 8800GT and 8600GTS too, but I won’t recommend it to everyone because it’s their own choice, what if they only need to play casual games? What if their local computer store has a huge discount on a different card?
Oh god. I like ATi over nVidia, but just cos a mac has a gfx card doesn’t mean that it’s a good graphics card. You can buy MUCH better GPUs than macs come with. Use something like tomshardware.com and buy whatever brand has the best value. Typically it’s ati, but there are exceptions.
I would get a Radeon 4770 over a 9800 any day. They’re under $100 and as good as a 9800 in most games. Right now, they are hands-down the best value for the money. Even better value if you get 2. If you can find one, that is.
I used to use the radeon x1950 pro 512 mb AGP gpu. Problem is my new pc doesn’t use AGP. I now for the moment am using the nvidia 9400 GT 1 gig. I am also running my pc with the intel i7 920 2.67 cpu with the D0 stepping. 6 gig of ddr3 ram. Nice machine imo and the compile times in hammer are way faster than my old pc.
But yeah, my gpu is okay, but I could do with an upgrade.
I’ve never used the ATI Radeon graphics card. I have a NVIDIA 9400M graphics card. I just recommended ATI Radeon because the test on the Mac Pro Desktop website shows the ATI Radeon HD 4870 outperforming the weaker NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 had up to 6.6x improvement compared to the previous standard graphics card that Mac Pro Desktops used which was a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT. For the OP of this thread, I recommend that he buys a powerful NVIDIA or ATI Radeon graphics card that is in his price range.
Oh for the love of god… OMG GUYZ GET AN ATI CRAD COZ A HIGH END ATI PART OUTPERFORMS A LOW END NVIDIA PART.
Apple’s choice of graphics cards never fails to amaze me. How they can, in all seriousness, put a GTX 120 into a Mac Pro, is utterly inexpicable. I’m not the only one who’s confused.
On topic: the OP already said he’s gotten things working with another card, so why is everyone still telling him to get a new graphics card (and not only that, recommending PCIe cards which won’t work with his AGP setup)?