Okay, I'm buying a G5... Which G card do I get?
I'm completely hopeless when it comes to graphics cards... and you only have 24 hours until I walk down to my local reseller to order my new machine. (I get a "Key Customer" discount which is better than the student discount)
I would be using it primarily for Maya and Photoshop.
I am looking at getting the Dual 2ghz and splurging for the NVIDEA Ge Force 6800 Ultra DDL... am I heading in the right direction? Argument for or against this set up would be greatly appreciated... but I am ordering tomorrow.
I am sick of using Maya on my G3 400!
iDunno
PS. Onlooker and hmurchison, advice would be greatly appreciated
I would be using it primarily for Maya and Photoshop.
I am looking at getting the Dual 2ghz and splurging for the NVIDEA Ge Force 6800 Ultra DDL... am I heading in the right direction? Argument for or against this set up would be greatly appreciated... but I am ordering tomorrow.
I am sick of using Maya on my G3 400!
iDunno
PS. Onlooker and hmurchison, advice would be greatly appreciated
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Believe me, I would love to save money and go with a cheaper card... I was going for the top nvidea card because I have used the normal nvidea card on a dual 1.8 and I couldn't even open a particle file I had been working on.
iDunno
Originally posted by iDunno
So you are happy with the Performance with the ATi card and maya 6? I have heard that the nvidea's are better because they use openGl, whereas ATI is Direct X (I am just repeating stuff I have heard - I'm not a techie person)
OpenGL and DirectX are just software interfaces (API) to the video hardware. OpenGL is an open standard, hence the name, available for a number of platforms, though it originated from SGI. DirectX is a proprietary Microsoft Windows-only API.
What a card support is a matter of the drivers for that card for that particular OS. For MacOS, only OpenGL matters. What you probably heard was that on Windows, NVidia writes better OpenGL drivers for their cards than ATI, which seems to be the case since Doom 3 runs significantly better on a 6800 family card than an X800 card, and it's an OpenGL game. DirectX games show the ATI matching or slightly ahead. Of course, just because, say, NVidia writes awesome OpenGL drivers for Windows does not mean they do so for MacOS X, though again, that actually seems to be the case in reality.
Originally posted by iDunno
So you are happy with the Performance with the ATi card and maya 6?
iDunno
I love it. My iMac G4 800Mhz with Superdrive had an nVidia GeForce 2 and let me tell you this ATI Radeon 9600XT leaves it in the dust. I am using an old Apple Studio Display CRT that is clear on the sides and hooks up to the ADC and I can still run a max resolution of 1600x1200. Now that may not seem impressive but considering this monitor is as old as it is this graphics card pushes it to the extreme. I also play Halo, Unreal Tournament 2004, & Call of Duty and they are simply stunning (yet again I have never played on a $500 GPU). I can't imagine how great a new Apple LCD would look with the resolution (just got to get someone else to buy that for me too \) Sorry for the long answer but if you want to save money I say get a Dual 2.0Ghz simply because you might want more the 4GB of RAM that the Dual 1.8Ghz limits you too. I plan on putting in between 6-8GB because of the size of some of these files. Anywho that's just my :two cents:
P.S. Save the extra money and get a 23" Apple LCD