Question about Radeon cards please help

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RyanLang

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Ok here's the situation. My geforce 2 Mx sucks with a 1600 X 1200 resolution. I want a radeon, but I don't want a wimpy 8500 and I don't want to shell out the bucks for the 9800. My question is, is there any way to buy the 9600 pro for the mac?? I know it came in powermacs at one point, so would that mean I could buy a PC one and put it in my mac and it would work since there are drivers that exist? If not is there anyway I can get ahold of the 9600 for mac? Thanks guys
 
Before you buy it, find a solution.

By default, it will not work. Some specialist here may have found a workaround, but normaly the drivers on the PC 9600 card are not compatible with Mac.
 
yeah i just read that people flash the bios of the pc ones, but that was for old cards, i don't know if its possible with the new ones. Why can't they just sell the 9800 at the price of the pc one? same thing, what a rip off...
 
The 8500 is better than the 9000, don't let the numbers fool you, I need at least the 9600 or 9700 if I don't go all the way and get the 9800. I just found a site selling the Nvidia Ti 4600 for 230 bucks, but that is still a little steep for me right now. So there is NO place to buy an OEM or used 9600 or 9700 radeon for mac???? arrrrr
 
damnit, if only someone would sell me their 9600 for mac from their machine...arrarrrararararrrr, I really can't spend all that money on the 9800, i don't even play games much
 
If you don't play games all that much, then why are you obsessing about getting as good of a card as you can afford? I'd think the 8500 would be good for the casual gamer, if that includes you.
 
Maybe someone else can verify this, but if I remember right, you can't use a OEM 9600 or an OEM 9800 in your quicksilver machine. Both of these cards are 8x cards. I believe (could be wrong) that I read an article on the ati cards that stated the OEM 8x cards couldn't be used in a 2x/4x slot.

Now you could use a 9700 card (probably hard to find someone that would part with one) that was offered in the (at the time) top of the line 1.42 dual g4's (MDD design). But you'd probably end up spending as much on that as you would a geforce 4 ti or an retail version of the 9800 (which would be the better of the two).
 
I saw 9800's that are 4X but they were PC ones, so maybe they only come in 4X for PC, guess I am out of luck there, maybe I should just buy that Ti for a little over 200 bucks and be happy with that till next year when I finally upgrade to the G5. Thanks everyone
 
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