xtraa Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Hi, well I thought about selling my nVidia and get me an Ati for several reasons - I did not find any information about the current status of the macvidia project - I did not even found a guess, how long it will probably take - I dont know, if it is just quiet or dead!? - No one knows anything about future OSX drivers in upcoming releases Atm, I have a geForce 6600 GT with PCI-E. Can you recomment an equivalent ATI that is working for you? Or do you think it may be ok to just do nothing and wait a month? I am not a hardcore gamer. I just need a card that works with dual monitor and fit into the pci-e slot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozotheclown Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 come on, hold your breath for a few seconds and hear me out. Why the {censored} would you based on an os in beta with far from finished driversupport which shouldn't run on your machine anyway (non Apple intel hw) decide to dump a perfectly good videocard to get one of which you don't know how it wil work with the finished product that is again not supposed to work on your machine anyway. I'd hold on a bit and see how osxi matures and more important the driver support and beyond that if it remains so easy to hack into working on non Apple intel hw and then dicide to dump your videocard or not:) may the force be with you dude;) Hi, well I thought about selling my nVidia and get me an Ati for several reasons - I did not find any information about the current status of the macvidia project - I did not even found a guess, how long it will probably take - I dont know, if it is just quiet or dead!? - No one knows anything about future OSX drivers in upcoming releases Atm, I have a geForce 6600 GT with PCI-E. Can you recomment an equivalent ATI that is working for you? Or do you think it may be ok to just do nothing and wait a month? I am not a hardcore gamer. I just need a card that works with dual monitor and fit into the pci-e slot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FancyNatra Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 does with intel chipset's work dualmonitoring? with this new 8f1099 my ati card work very well but no multimonitoring. Intresting that with my geforceFX5200 i have mirrored screens(no acceleration), but I can't to set anything in System Profiler.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 I'll Wait. Even the newest G5 come with NVidia PCI-E cards. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted November 26, 2005 Author Share Posted November 26, 2005 Hi, thanks for your suggetions and comments, I think I'll join you then and just wait, too Maybe it would be good, to have a diffuse date at the macvidia page, just for the feeling I am very thankful and appreciate their hard freetime work very much, but sometimes it is hard to just have a blackbox with no information about 'when'. @bozotheclown: I agree, and I am also happy with my system, i never would have expected it to work like it does now. But you know, this is the only thing missing and to say goodbye to windows This is even harder, when I imagine the lucky Ati owners now with CI and QE. (Something in me screams: mee too! I wanna!! here!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 I, maybe, will buy a X300 (the cheapest) of the ATI cards, just to see if it worth, and sell it then. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tak Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 Yeah for the moment if you want to play with QE and CI with one monitor then pick up a cheap used compatible card like the X300 for PCI-E or 9600 for AGP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 Get the cheapest thing that works and wait for final. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TribesMan Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 I, maybe, will buy a X300 (the cheapest) of the ATI cards, just to see if it worth, and sell it then. tongue.gif Is Core Image supported on Radeon x300? I thought that x300 is just R9200 with PCI Express bus, and R9200 does not support Core Image as far as I know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FancyNatra Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 everything sound's great, but this dualmonitor problem is for me, like i have just one eye... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 Is Core Image supported on Radeon x300? I thought that x300 is just R9200 with PCI Express bus, and R9200 does not support Core Image as far as I know. Good question. Agree with idea of minimizing investment in an ersatz "DTK" machine. Will be nice if the first Apple Intel machines are released in Jan 06...should give a pretty good idea of just what the protections will be in shipping machines. Has anyone tried this card: <http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=131928&cm_keycode=85>. VisionTek X300 128mb on sale for $100, with a $50 rebate ($50 net price) ??? G Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TribesMan Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 Hmm as I can see from guilliamos link DirectX 9 is supported on Radeon X300, so CI should work on this cards... Thats definetely good newz. Is X300 supported by latest OS 10.4.3 builds? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted November 28, 2005 Author Share Posted November 28, 2005 Very good idea with the x300 I think I will buy one, too, as soon as we know, that it i supported 100% Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groffy77 Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 I have a X300-- I wouldn't totally change your way of life for this yet. If in a year you can't get your card working, then change it. Most likely you will be able to. I was going to get a $80 wireless Linksys thing that will allow me to use my ethernet port which works with my computer. Although it would be nice to get working internet, I don't have sound, graphics.. etc. I am not going to be spending $80 for something that won't have a point on getting it in a couple months. I am sure people will get almost all hardware working.. just now people have ATI being detected! Thats a big step.. and Apple only released the Intel processer supported version only at the beginning of this year (I think). If you ask me, I think we have made great progress. Just wait. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 free x300se from cc ar starting 11/27. check HERE Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-31711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted November 29, 2005 Author Share Posted November 29, 2005 (edited) Ok .. I did it I paid 43 Euro (±50$) CI and QE is supported out of the err... 'box' and the eyecandy efx are nice to have, but you can also live without it. There are two versions of that card, so it is a good idea to check if you get the one with the two outs (dvi+vga) and tv-out, in case you want to buy one. Dual-Monitor does not work yet. Speed: it's smooth, but i think it sucks compared to my gf6600 if it would be accelerated. My benchmarks grew from 61 (geforce) to 72 (ati) so you can see, that the geforce would be the killer here, it is nearly as fast as the ati but without CI and QE. Ok, I think we did not expected anything else between a card that costs 50 and another one that costs 150. Bugs: i think it is the mouse shadow that makes these dirty fragments when scrolling. But everything else is working fine. I will use it a while and maybe give it back within the next two weeks, or sell it later at ebay. If I manage to figure out the dual-moni support, I will keep it, but I don't think that I will find a way. Edited November 29, 2005 by xtraa Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4913-does-it-make-sense-to-buy-an-atiand-sell-my-geforce-now/#findComment-32331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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