JSR Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Hi. I'm looking for a new PCI-E graphic card, compatible and working under Windows and under Mac OS. At this moment I have an Ati X800 XT: it's a good card, but it's not the best under Mac Os (just a VESA compatible unaccelerated cards). I've seen that Ati X1600 Pro AGP is the best card for mac os, am I wrong? But It's AGP, and I don't know if it's better than an X800 XT What d'u know about? TNX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 X1650XT Pci-x also works, as do nvidia cards, but for them you need natit/titan, and a 10.4.8 kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddharth Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Buy the ATI X1950 XT (PCI-E). It's great and it works perfectly under OS X AFAIK. And this is how you can get it to work. A very good flawless installer by jccool. Here's the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EPDM Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Hi. I'm looking for a new PCI-E graphic card, compatible and working under Windows and under Mac OS. At this moment I have an Ati X800 XT: it's a good card, but it's not the best under Mac Os (just a VESA compatible unaccelerated cards). I've seen that Ati X1600 Pro AGP is the best card for mac os, am I wrong? But It's AGP, and I don't know if it's better than an X800 XT What d'u know about? TNX The X1600 Pro is normally a PCI-E card. There is an AGP varaint of it indeed. Anyway depending on which card. The Radeon X1600 pro 256MB PCI-E works best for OSX upto 10.4.7. Depending on which firmware I think it'll work fine on 10.48 too. In my own case it doen't work in 10.4.8 (I have a saphire X1600pro 256) while a mates computer also with X1600pro 256 but from another brand works perfectly. Nonetheless you can fool OSX into thinking it's a 10.4.8 by fooling around the version.plist. This is reequired for those programs that refuse to install in anything below 10.4.8. Cheers, EPDM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 At this moment I have an Ati X800 XT: it's a good card, but it's not the best under Mac Os (just a VESA compatible unaccelerated cards). I'm not saying the X800 is the best card (I've thought about replacing mine), but by "unaccelerated," do you mean you don't have Quartz Extreme and Core Image working on it? You can get them working with Callisto, but you need to have the ATIRadeon9700.kext and ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin from 10.4.4 for it to work right. If you still want to replace it, the Geforce 7000 series works very well. The 7600GT is very good for the money (you can get one for less than $100). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephiro88 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 X1650XT Pci-x also works, as do nvidia cards, but for them you need natit/titan, and a 10.4.8 kernel I have a x1650xt pci-e and cant seem to get CI/QE. I tried using the natit universal installer. This gives me res support but not QE/CI. How did you get yours working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh256 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 best would be either x1950 or 7950GToc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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