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Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT for Mac - Nvidia
After RAM, a video card upgrade can be the easiest way to boost performance on your Mac. We compared the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT for Mac against the Mac’s original card... read more at |
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Radeon 9600 Pro PC & Mac Edition - ATI Technologies, Inc
GOT G4? You could extend the useful lifespan of a Mirror Door or a QuickSilver with dual processors. Got G5? You could see better performance from your games and graphics apps. In either case, check out the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro PC & Mac Edition video card ... read more at macHOME |
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GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL - nVidia
Only available from Apple, nVidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL is one of two graphics cards that can power Apple's 30-inch Cinema HD Display ( Feb/05, p35). It's available as an upgrade option in a new Power Mac G5 and as a stand-alone card—so we wondered, how much of a performance boost does the 6800 Ultra offer compared to the 128MB ATI Radeon 9600 XT that comes stock in the Dual 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 ( Nov/04, p38)? ... read more at MacAddict |
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ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition - ATI
Gaming may have a less than illustrious pedigree on the Mac, but that doesn't stop software and hardware companies from continuing to innovate in the games arena. The latest salvo comes from ATI in the shape of its Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition graphics card ... read more at MacUserUK |
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Village Tronic VTBook - Village Tronic
Village Tronic's VTBook is intended to help you get around these problems and drive modern displays at high speeds. The VTBook is a PC Card that provides an impressive 32Mb of video RAM and a digital monitor socket driven by a Trident XP2 graphics chip. It fits into the standard PC Card slot in the side of your PowerBook and, with the driver software installed, provides you with a new monitor socket ... read more at MacUserUK |
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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - ATI
ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro is one of the fastest graphics cards available for either the Mac or PC, and since the latest Nvidia GeForce cards don't run on the Mac, ATI pretty much rules the roost in the Mac market at the moment ... read more at MacUser UK |
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Radeon 9000 - ATI (AGP)
"The Radeon 9000 is a very worthwhile
upgrade for any G4 with an older Nvidia or ATI
graphics card" ... read more
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GeForce4 Titanium - Apple/nVIDIA (4x
AGP)
"if you need every ounce of possible power
for snappier screen redraws, quicker handling
of image-laden applications and faster gaming,
and if you want to run dual displays, this is
your card" ... read more at macHOME |
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Radeon 8500 - ATI (AGP)
"With a Radeon 8500 installed, you'll notice
faster game play and, thanks to special features
such as anti-aliasing, better-looking graphics
on supported games." ... read more at macHOME |
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Radeon 7000 - ATI (PCI)
"ATI's Radeon 7000 is what was once called
the Radeon VE, a cut-down Radeon card introduced
at MacWorld New York 2001 for those who use PCI
instead of AGP in their Macs" ... read more
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Matrox RTMac - Matrox
it eliminates the need to render 20 specific
video transitions and motion effects, provides
support for an extra monitor, and allows you to
perform analog capture and export. And yet, I'm
somewhat disappointed because I was expecting
it to do more, such as create a real-time editing
environment. ... read more at macHOME |
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MP Desktop Doubler (PCI) - Village TronicVillage
Tronic's MP Desktop Doubler is a graphics card that
allows you to connect two monitors to your Mac at
the same time ... read more at MacUser
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Radeon (PCI) - ATI
Our Radeon performed flawlessly - no surprise,
considering that ATI and Apple have worked closely
together for many years. Performance was solid,
with the chip set delivering clear and reasonably
fast 2D and 3D graphic ... read more at MacAddict |
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DH-Max - ProMax Systems (AGP)
Regrettably, neither the Jeronimo nor the DH-Max
card offers 3-D hardware acceleration, making
them inappropriate choices for gamers ... read
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Jeronimo 2000 - Appian Graphics (PCI)
Regrettably, neither the Jeronimo nor the DH-Max
card offers 3-D hardware acceleration, making
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Voodoo4 4500 PCI - 3dfx
Mac users with a limited budget are looking for
something that fits their performance needs but
without cleaning out their wallet. Enter the Voodoo4,
3dfx's economy card that features a single VSA-100
processor and 32 MB of RAM ... read more at MacNN |
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Radeon (AGP) - ATI
The Radeon features 32MB of DDR (double data
rate) memory, which speeds data transfer on both
edges of a clock cycle, and DVD-Video playback.
It has both a DVI-I connector (for connecting
digital flat-panel displays) and an S-Video-out
port ... read more at MacAddict |
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Voodoo5 5500 - 3dfx
With 64MB of RAM and a dual VSA-100 chip set
running 2D and 3D functions, the Voodoo 5 5500
PCI graphics card surpasses the ATI Rage 128 as
the leading Mac 3D card ... read more at MacAddict |
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ProFormance III Plus & ProCyber 3D Glasses
- Formac
when tested against previous Formac graphics
cards: OpenGL playback in LightWave was around
20% faster than a 16Mb ProFormance III card -
a worthwhile speed bump. However, things were
not quite so clear cut when testing against the
16Mb ATI RAGE card in the AGP slot of a G4 ...
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XClaim VR 128 - ATI
In an effort to span the connection between video,
television, and high-end video processing, ATI
has released the ATI XClaim VR 128, a combination
of a video card with video capture capabilities
and an outboard TV tuner ... read more at MacAddict |
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IX3D Game Rocket - IXMicro
After we ran our 3-D tests, the benefits of the
graphics accelerators were much clearer. As you
can see in the benchmark, all four cards substantially
boosted performance for Unreal. With Quake, the
Rage Orion (in RAVE mode) and Game Rocket (in
Glide mode) turned in excellent scores ... read
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ProFormance 3 - Formac
Graphics accelerator cards are getting ridiculously
fast these days, and the ProFormance 3 adds to
the trend with blazing pixel-blitting performance,
tons of spiffy features, and a full-featured control
panel ... read more at MacAddict |
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ix3D Dual Monitor - IXMicro
The ix3D Dual Monitor card boasts support for
two monitors in a single PCI card. With impressive
specs and a Twin Turbo 128-3D engine, it might
fit the bill if you're short on slots ... read
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RAGE Orion 128 - ATI
the Rage Orion is one of the few good things
keeping the Mac alive in today's high-res, 32-bit
color, OpenGL gaming. And its support for legacy
APIs like QuickDraw 3D and RAVE is unmatched ...
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Picasso 540/3D Overdrive Module - VillageTronic |
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MP 805 - Village Tronic
VillageTronic aims its Voodoo Banshee-powered
MP 850 at the Mac desktop publishing and hard-core
gaming markets ... read more at MacAddict |
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Game Wizard - Micro Conversions
The only original design manufacturer that has
brought Voodoo2 to the Mac is Micro Conversions.
Its aptly named card, the Game Wizard, houses
the Voodoo2 chip set and sports 12MB of video
memory. Voodoo2 works superbly, and it kicks polygons
at an 800 by 600 resolution ... read more at MacAddict |
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MacMagic - Village Tronic
In Mac gaming, the price of awesome 3D has traditionally
been exorbitant, but the product with the right
price has arrived. VillageTronic's MacMagic means
affordable 3D ... read more at MacAddict |
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Effetto Pronto 1.0 - Videonics
After Effects can do just about anything a Flame
can do, but not in real time, and time is money,
pal, so get out of here!" Such video snobbery
will no longer fly with the introduction of Effetto
Pronto (ready effect in Italian), a real-time
(or pretty near real-time) finishing system for
creating sophisticated DV special effects ...
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MacTell Vision3D Pro II Lite 8MB - Mactell
MacTell's Vision3D Pro II Lite, the lower-cost
version of the Vision3D Pro II card, features
the 128-bit Ticket to Ride graphics controller.
The Vision3D Pro II Lite has 8MB of WRAM; supports
resolutions up to 1,960 by 1,060; and has a vertical
scan frequency up to 150Hz. It also supports QuickDraw,
MPEG, QuickTime, RAVE, and OpenGL acceleration
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ix3D Pro Rez - ixMicro
IXMicro's ix3D Pro Rez is a 128-bit 2D and 3D
graphics accelerator with 8MB of SGRAM. It supports
resolutions up to 1,600 by 1,200 and refresh rates
as high as 100Hz. The board's video out uses the
Mac-standard wide connector, so attaching Apple
monitors is a no-brainer ... read more at MacAddict |
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EditDV - Radius
Radius's EditDV is actually three products in
one box: an IEEE 1394 FireWire card, MotoDV capture
software, and EditDV editing software. The package
is a reasonably priced, effective way to get digital
video into your Mac, edit it, and output it ...
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ix3D Road Rocket - ixMicro
The ix3D Road Rocket brings to the PowerBook
G3 Series what that machine should have had from
the start - true multiple-monitor support instead
of the lesser video-mirroring ability it currently
features ... read more at MacAddict |
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ix3D Mac Rocket - ixMicro
Among the entry-level graphics accelerators aimed
at the consumer market is IXMicro's new offering
for home and office users, ix3D Mac Rocket ...
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Vision 3D
At only $145, the Vision 3D card gives you great
video acceleration for the price. The 4MB of VRAM
installed on this card allows 24-bit color at
1016 by 768 resolution or, alternatively, 8-bit
color at 1280 by 1024 resolution - enough to drive
a 21-inch monitor ... read more at MacAddict |
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Video Wizard - Micro Conversions
The Video Wizard supports resolutions up to 1,280
x 1,024 in 32-bit color (millions of colors) and
video-out resolutions up to 720 x 576 in PAL Overscan
mode and 640 x 480 in NTSC Overscan mode ... read
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Vision 3D Pro II
This beefy video card kicks out the video with
8MB of VRAM for 24-bit color at resolutions as
high as 1920 by 1080. Try reading that on a 17-inch
monitor. The Vision 3D Pro II is based on Number
Nine's state-of-the-art Ticket to Ride video processor
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ix3D Ultimate Rez - ixMicro
The Mac Rocket, Pro Rez, and Ultimate Rez are
ixMicro's latest 2D/3D graphics accelerators,
filling the low end, middle, and high end of the
market, respectively. All will please people looking
for great 2D acceleration, but they may disappoint
gamers ... read more at macHOME |
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Nexus GA - ATI
Of the handful of PCI cards that deliver maximum
imaging, ATI's Nexus GA is a stellar contender,
with only one notable shortcoming - no QuickTime
acceleration ... read more at MacAddict |
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Xclaim VR 2.0
Version 2.0 improves on the original, with new
3D RAGE PRO technology, better graphics when connecting
a Mac to a TV, and a better software bundle ...
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Power3D - TechWorks
It not only serves up 45-megapixels-per-second-sustained
polygon fill but also offers over 1-million-triangles-per-second
throughput! Sigh. Sorting through 3D gobbledygook
is enough to give even Einstein a Gouraud-shaded
headache. Simply put, the Power3D is a PCI card
that makes 3D games more beautiful, ... read more
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Imagine 128 Series 2
The Imagine 128 gives millions of colors at 1,600-x-1,200-pixel
resolution, full-screen video playback, and accelerated
2D performance ... read more at MacAddict |
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ATI Technologies Xclaim 3D
ATI's Xclaim 3D board primarily is a QD3D accelerator.
The board does work as a 2D graphics board, of
course; the 8MB version provides 24-bit resolutions
of up to 1,280 x 1,024 pixels at 75Hz and a modest
gain in scrolling speed ... read more at MacAddict |
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