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These practices have made many consumers feel justified in experimenting with the flashing of PC graphics cards. We feel Apple Computer has created a lot of frustration by either NOT offering aftermarket upgrades (like the GeForce 7800 GT) - or - by offering them at high prices and then pulling them off the market even before the current model goes out of production (like they did with the GeForce 6800 GT and Ultra). And when a truly fast retail card appears, it's often much more costly than the PC equivalent. There is a lot of frustration with the dirth of really fast aftermarket graphics cards for the various G4 and G5 Power Macs. Do it wrong and you will end up with an expensive door stop. Sometimes the ROM itself must be replaced with a bigger one.

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Sometimes the ROM code must be modified before it will work in the PC card. There is an ethical issue you must deal with when taking the ROM code from a Mac graphics card you DON'T own and flashing it into the ROM of a Windows PC graphics card. If you are in the USofA, that's not an option even for a mad scientist - at least for now. I understand that some European companies have 7800 GSs with dual DVI ports - one of which can support Dual-Link displays (like Apple's 30' Cinema). The GeForce 7800 GS sports a DVI and VGA port.

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The 7800 GS AGP won't match the performance of the PCI Express version of the GeForce 7800 GT running in a 'hobbled' Quad-Core, but for the hard-core gamer with mediocre or mid-range GPUs like GeForce 5200FX or Radeon 9600 Pro or 9600 XT or 9800 Pro or 9800 Pro SE in their G5 Power Mac, the GeForce 7800 GS is a tempting experiment. And you will lose the Dual-Link DVI port needed for a 30' Cinema display. You will actually lose to the X800 and X850 cards when rendering Core Image effects. If you already have either a GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X850 XT, you won't see much gain going to a GeForce 7800 GS for running Motion 2. The 'mutant' GeForce 7800 GS provides an average 3D gaming performance gain of 16% over the Radeon X800 XT - the fastest retail graphics card you can currently buy for the G5 Power Mac with 8X AGP slot. (In 'PART TWO' coming in a few days, we will show you how the 7800 GS performs on a G4 QuickSilver Power Mac with a GigaDesigns 2GHz CPU upgrade.) In this 'PART ONE' article, we will be showing you how this 'mutant' GeForce 7800 GS AGP performs on a Single-Core G5/2.5GHz Power Mac. The mad scientists at the StrangeDogs forum have successfully converted a Windows PC GeForce 7800 GS to run on both 8X and 4X AGP Power Macs. Those are both great cards but if you have the craving for even more speed, your only alternative was to buy a new Dual-Core or Quad-Core G5 Power Mac. For G4 Power Mac (4X AGP) owners, the best available retail option was the Radeon 9800 Pro. That left G5 Power Mac (8X AGP) owners with the ATI Radeon X800 XT as their fastest optional retail graphics card. Adding insult to injury, Apple dropped the optional GeForce 6800 GT (and Ultra) from their Graphics section of the online store. When the Dual-Core Power Macs were announced with an optional GeForce 7800 GT PCI-Express GPU, there was a collective 'groan' in the community of Power Mac owners with AGP slots.

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