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Reccomendations on a Video Card upgrade.

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I am currently running a G4 933, 1gig RAM, with two internal hard drives, superdrive. I am looking to upgrade the stock video card.

I am looking to:
add dual monitor support (2 VGA monitors)
I would like to run Motion as well.

I do a lot of photoshop work and final cut pro work.

Any reccomendations? I was originally looking at the Radeon 9800 Pro but am a little concerned it might be too much card for the computer.

thanks,

Sinclair
 
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9800 pro will be fine...trust me i have a 800x in my dual g5 and thats a little to much but i think that the 9800 (not the pro) is a little cheaper and will be great for what your doing
 
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or sonnet has some nice ones, like the sonata sd.
 
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i thought they had a bad rep with macs???
 
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not that I know of. ati is probably the best though, or nvidia.
 
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Thanks for the input. Any good resources for buying online? I checked www.pricegrabber.com and all I get is a listing for the 9800 Pro Mac edition. What is difference between the Pro and the standard

thx,
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