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Hey. I posted a question about video cards earlier in week and know that you need to be careful with the cards you put into a G5 of this generation. (See post below and it would be great if folks with same CPU and video card experience shares some wisdom). One of the problems I'm having is that Apple is not that helpful in supporting older CPU's, some video cards have come out after this G5 generation came out and it's hard to determine which cards will in fact work. Also, video card manufacturers have put out a bunch of cards for Macs (PC's) and it's hard to know if particular cards are compatible with particular machines. Finally, there are issues with video card drivers which I'm not that up on but I do know that OS X has many video card drivers as part of operating system. It's possible your problem is a driver issue (e.g. software) rather than hardware.
I know with my machine (a late edition G5 dual 2.3 with PCI express slots, the GeForce 7800 GT has worked great. My computer also came with the 660 card as the base card. You can also google 'G5 2.0 powermac video cards' and see what comes up.
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Upgrade video card in my G5 2.3 to use with Matrox MXO and Final Cut Pro
Posted: Dec 14, 2008 5:57 AM
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Greetings. I have an HDV project and purchased an MXO to allow viewing
on external monitor. The MXO did not work with my GeForce 7800 video card
and I spent over an hour with Matrox tech support and they also sent me
a second MXO box. The CPU does not appear to see the MXO and we were unable to see any signal (i.e. color bars during set up)
My question: Has anyone found a way to integrate
MXO into a FCP set-up like mine? I'm running a G5 2.3 late, 6 gig ram,
FCP 6.04 and this video card mentioned above. The second part of question:
If I need to replace video card, has anyone done this with my particular G5 and had good success? I have found on the Matrox site that one user has put an
ATI 1900x into his G5 and they also support a lesser card GeForce 6600. I do not
want to take a step back with any modification and want to make sure my system which funs very smoothly now is not compromised. Thanks for any experience and insight into this.