nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 in G5?

spitty27

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hey, my friend really wants to switch and get a g5, but the ONLY thing, and i mean ONLY thing thats bothering him, is that he will be unable to play star wars galaxies, and his 5900 will go to waste. he and i were wondering if the G5 1.8 and the 2.0 accept the card (card is AGP 8x, just like those g5 models). anyone know anything?

http://nvidia.com/page/fx_5900.html
 
spitty27 said:
hey, my friend really wants to switch and get a g5, but the ONLY thing, and i mean ONLY thing thats bothering him, is that he will be unable to play star wars galaxies, and his 5900 will go to waste. he and i were wondering if the G5 1.8 and the 2.0 accept the card (card is AGP 8x, just like those g5 models). anyone know anything?

http://nvidia.com/page/fx_5900.html
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PC video cards are not compatible in macs, they have different firmware. Even the same model of a card, such as the Radeon 8500, it has mac versions, and PC versions, but each only works on their respective platform.

Brian
 
If your buddy is a serious gamer, I'd hate to tell him to do this, but stick with a PC. Macs are great and fast and powerful, but lack in the games department. It takes a year or more sometimes to get a port of a game to the Mac platform, so he'd probably be playing all the new games a year after they were considered new.

Now, if he's a serious web designer or graphic artist, then I wouldn't hesitate switching to the Mac platform -- I think he'd be much happier designing on a Macintosh. Even casual home users (internet, word processing, email) would be happier on a Mac.

But for a gamer, stick with a PC or get a PS2 or XBox.
 
You can always try flashing the card's firmware to make it work with a Mac, if you can find instructions to do so.
 
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