NEW Mac Edition ATI Radeon X800 XT 256MB AGP Video Card

Description

Up for auction is an Apple Macintosh compatible ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP graphics card with 256MB of 256-bit GDDR3 memory. This item has been tested and is guaranteed to arrive in working condition. It will work with any 4x AGP G4 (Digital Audio, Quicksilver, Mirrored Drive Door, FireWire 800) or any G5 Power Mac with an AGP slot. This 3D graphics powerhouse is one of the fastest AGP cards available for your G4 or G5 machine. It is much faster than a Radeon 9800 card, and this ultra-rare model has DUAL DVI ports, one of which is a dual-link port which will run a 30" Cinema display at full 2560x1600 resolution! Ask about our trade-in credit for your old video card or machine.

Compatible machines include:

• G4 Digital Audio 4x AGP

• G4 Quicksilver 4x AGP

• G4 Mirrored Drive Door (MDD) 4x AGP (additional cooling recommended)

• G4 FireWire 800 (FW800) 4x AGP (additional cooling recommended)

• G5 Tower 8x AGP

Features:

• Extremely powerful GPU for immersive 3D gaming, much faster than the already amazing Radeon 9800 Pro

• Functions as a basic display card in Mac OS 9.2.2 - features and available resolutions/refresh rates may be limited

• Fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar - 10.6 Snow Leopard

• Fully supported by the latest version of ATI Displays for extended functionality, including VersaVision monitor rotation

• Full Apple ColorSync support

• Quartz Extreme compatible

• Core Image support

• Apple ColorSync support
• Apple Motion support
• Apple Aperture support
• Runs all ATI Radeon SmartShader tests

• No sleep issues (but installing this card will not fix any pre-existing sleep issues your machine may have)

• Latest firmware (v109) already installed

• Includes Dual DVI-I connections

• Dual display capable - this card will drive dual independent displays (aka Extended Desktop) or dual mirrored displays (aka Mirrored Desktop)

• Available display modes include single DVI, dual DVI, VGA+DVI (w/adapter), VGA+VGA (w/adapters)

• To drive an ADC display, a (spendy) DVI-ADC adapter is required (available for $99 from the Apple Store)

• Does not fit in any 2x AGP G4 Macs (Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, G4 Cube)

• Maximum available analog (VGA CRT or LCD) resolution is 2048 x 1536 @ 85hz

• Maximum available digital (DVI LCD) resolution is 1920 x 1200 @ 60hz (up to 23" Apple Cinema HD Display) on the single link port, and 2560 x 1600 @ 60hz (up to 30" Apple Cinema HD Display) on the dual link port

• Available resolutions and refresh rates will be dependent upon your display's capabilities

• Requires connection to your computer’s internal power supply for operation (12v power splitter cable included). ATI recommends a 300-Watt power supply or greater to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.
• A slot cooler is recommended for G4 Mirrored Drive Door (MDD) and FireWire 800 (FW800) owners (these machines have poor air circulation)

This video card is a good choice for:

• Basic computing

• Intense 3D applications

• Intense 3D gaming

• Professional 3D applications
• Apple ColorSync support
• Apple Motion support
• Apple Aperture support
• Video editing
• Fast Core Image

• DVD Playback

• Internet browsing

• Office applications

• Intense 2D graphics and design

• Dual display capability

• iLife '08
• iWork '08
• Aperture
• Final Cut Studio (Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Color)
• Final Cut Express HD
• Logic Studio
• Shake

Included with the auction:

• (1) Video Card

• (1) 12v Power Splitter Cable

• Installation instructions

• No retail box or driver CD is included (drivers are available from ATI.com and our website)

Specifications from ATI:

With a combination of break-through software technologies and category leading advancements in shader engineering, the Radeon® X800 XT Mac Edition delivers a phenomenal 3D graphics solution that integrates beautifully with your Mac.

Extreme High Definition & Performance

For avid Mac gamers, the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition with advanced programmable shaders provides an extremely smooth and responsive HD gaming experience, allowing players to take control of the most demanding game titles at the highest possible settings. Combine this with ATI’s latest generation image enhancements, filtering, compression, and acceleration technologies to establish a new standard in visual realism and graphics performance.
Expand your creative range with more speed and efficiency using content creation software titles such as Motion, Modo®, and Maya® – without constraints. With the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition you will experience faster rendering of visual effects at higher resolutions. Increase your productivity with quicker switching between screens, improve web graphics and monitor performance. The Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition is also future ready and fully compatible with the Core Image features of the upcoming Tiger release of Mac OS X.

Massive 3D Rendering

With 16 parallel pixel pipelines, and six parallel vertex processing pipelines, the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition delivers well over twice the horsepower of its highly acclaimed predecessor, the Radeon 9800 PRO.
By comparison, the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition delivers these impressive performance gains:
• Pixel fill rate gain of 150%
• Memory bandwidth gain of 50%
• Geometry performance gain of 90%
• Floating point operations/sec. gain of 140%
• The Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition delivers unbelievable acceleration in a quiet, cool, single-slot AGP PRO 8x solution.

Specifications

• 160 million transistors on 0.13 micron low-k copper fabrication process

• 16 parallel pixel pipelines

• Six parallel vertex processing engines

• 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface

• Dual Integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHz DACs
• Integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI compliant)
• On-Board Dual Link TMDS transmitter (High Resolution DVI compliant)

System Requirements

• Mac® OS X 10.3.6 or later

• AGP 8x or 4x capable Macintosh®

• 128MB of system memory

• DVD playback requires DVD drive

• Power connection to the computer

• Radeon® X800 XT Mac Edition requires connection to your computer’s internal power supply for operation. ATI recommends a 300-Watt power supply or greater to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.
  

SmartShader™ HD

• Advanced programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware

• 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control

• 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass

• Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)

• 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass

• 32 temporary and constant registers

• Facing register for two-sided lighting

• 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats

• Multiple Render Target (MRT) support

• Shadow volume rendering acceleration

• High dimension floating point textures

• Full support for Mac OS X Core Image

SmoothVision™ HD

• State-of-the-art Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing

• 2x/4x/6x modes
• Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
• Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1)
• Advanced anisotropic filtering
• 2/4/8/16 trilinear filtered texture samples per pixel
• Up to 128-tap texture filtering
• Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options Efficient adaptive algorithms enable this feature with minimal performance degradation

3Dc™

• High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression

• Works with any two-channel data format

HYPER Z™ HD

• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test

• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
• Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

DVD and Quicktime™ Acceleration

• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time

• MPEG1/2/4 decode acceleration
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

Advanced Dual Display Support

• Drive two Digital or Analog displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates

• VERSAVISION™ provides hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling
• DUAL-LINK DVI for high-resolution digital displays
• Support for HDTV output over DVI

This video card is compatible with these Macs:

G4 Digital Audio Tower
G4 Quicksilver
G4 Mirrored Drive Door (MDD) and FireWire 800 (FW800)
G5 Tower 8x AGP

Domestic (US) Shipping

• If you pay by 9am CST, your item will ship the SAME DAY!
• If you pay after 9am CST, your item will ship out the next business day

• Shipping and handling is $9.50 for 2-5 day USPS Priority Mail for delivery to all 50 US States, all US territories, and all APO/FPO addresses

• Shipping and handling is $33.50 for 1-2 day USPS Express Mail for delivery to all 50 US States, all US territories, and all APO/FPO addresses

International Shipping

• For international shipments, a phone number is required - please specify your phone number with your payment
  
  

• Shipping and handling is $35.00 USD for USPS Priority Mail International

Payment

Acceptable forms of payment are:

• PayPal

Payment is due within one week of auction closing

Warranty - 90 Days

• We guarantee the item will arrive in working condition
• If the item fails within 90 days of arrival, email us and we will replace the item
• Returns for system or software incompatibility are subject to a 15% restocking fee
• Shipping and handling fees are non-refundable
• The warranty is void if the product is misused
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