How much will a new video card help performance

david_rdavid_r
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Hi everyone,



I have a 867MHZ powermac with a gig of ram and a 32mb agp video card. Performance has been fine up til now, but on iphoto 5 setting up the ken burns effect is really too slow. (when dragging the image it jerks along badly). In addition I plan to go to tiger when it comes out and from what I read, tiger likes to run with 64mb of video ram. So if I buy, for example, the Radeon 9000 pro mac edition, what do folks think that will do to my iphoto/photoshop performance?



Thanks, Dave

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    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by David_R

    Hi everyone,



    I have a 867MHZ powermac with a gig of ram and a 32mb agp video card. Performance has been fine up til now, but on iphoto 5 setting up the ken burns effect is really too slow. (when dragging the image it jerks along badly). In addition I plan to go to tiger when it comes out and from what I read, tiger likes to run with 64mb of video ram. So if I buy, for example, the Radeon 9000 pro mac edition, what do folks think that will do to my iphoto/photoshop performance?



    Thanks, Dave



    it will definitely improve, but i dunno by how much. if you're gonna get tiger with that system then go for it.
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