NEW Mac Edition ATI Radeon 8500 64MB AGP Video Card

Description

Up for auction is a gently used Apple Macintosh compatible ATI Radeon 8500 AGP graphics card with 64MB of 128-bit DDR memory. This item has been tested and is guaranteed to arrive in working condition. It will work with any G4 Power Mac with an AGP slot, except the G4 Cube. Ask about our trade-in credit for your old video card or machine.

Compatible machines include:

• G4 Sawtooth 2x AGP

• G4 Gigabit Ethernet 2x AGP

• G4 Digital Audio 4x AGP

• G4 Quicksilver 4x AGP

• G4 Mirrored Drive Door (MDD) 4x AGP

• G4 FireWire 800 (FW800) 4x AGP

• G4 Xserve AGP

Features:

• Fully compatible with Mac OS 9.2.2, including 3D acceleration

• Fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar - 10.5 Leopard

• Fully supported by the latest version of ATI Displays for extended functionality

• Quartz Extreme compatible

• No Core Image support (see our other auctions for Core Image compatible video cards)

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

• Latest firmware (v227) already installed

• Heatsink with fan allows for cool, quiet operation

• Clocked at 275MHz Core and 275MHz (550MHz DDR) Memory for fast, cool, and reliable operation (slower LE versions of this card run at 250MHz Core and 250MHz memory)

• Includes DVI-I, VGA, and S-Video (S-VHS) 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 VGA, single DVI, VGA+DVI, VGA+VGA (w/included adapter), VGA+TV, DVI+TV

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

• Maximum available analog (VGA CRT or LCD) resolution is 2048 x 1536 @ 75hz

• Maximum available digital (DVI LCD) resolution is 1920 x 1200 @ 60hz (up to 23" Apple Cinema HD Display)

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

This video card is a good choice for:

• Basic computing

• 3D applications

• 3D gaming

• DVD Playback

• Internet browsing

• Office applications

• 2D graphics and design

• Dual display capability

• Situations that require quiet, cool operation

• Full OS 9.2.2 compatibility

• iLife '08
• iWork '08
• Final Cut Pro
• Final Cut Express HD
• Shake

Included with the auction:

• See above.
  

  
  

Specifications from ATI:

Radeon® 8500 Mac Edition offers superior 3D graphics acceleration and is the ideal solution for high performance gaming and workstation applications.

Enjoy fast 3D/2D graphic performance and support for great new features including TruForm™ and SmartShader™ technologies. Radeon® 8500 Mac Edition provides full support for OpenGL®. Plus, experience superior graphics, vigorous 3D gaming action and advanced digital content creation application performance.

• Incredible 3D/2D graphics performance

• Flexible dual-display support

• Powered by Radeon® 8500 GPU for revolutionary performance

• 64MB of powerful 128-bit double data rate (DDR) memory

• Intense graphics realism in 3D gaming environments and workstation applications

• 3D resolutions up to 2048 x 1536

• OpenGL® driver supports fast 3D/2D graphics acceleration

• Supports Mac® OS 9 and Mac® OS X

• Quartz Extreme support in OS X

• Smooth, anti-aliased DVD playback

• DVI interface for digital flat panel support

• Video-output (S-Video and Composite) for TV output support
• Designed and manufactured by ATI
• TRUFORM™ technology makes characters and objects more rounded and natural
• SMARTSHADER™ technology enables custom vertex and pixel shader programs for complex geometry, texture and lighting effects in real time
• SMOOTHVISION™, ATI's advanced anti-aliasing feature eliminates distracting visual artifacts for smoother-looking images
• CHARISMA ENGINE™ II supports full Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L) at 62.5 million triangles/second peak processing capability
• PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II, the RADEON™ 8500 3D rendering engine, powers an incredible 2.4 gigatexels/second for superior fill rates in 32-bit at high resolutions
• HYPER Z™ II
• VIDEO IMMERSION™ II
• Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
• Twin cache architecture
• SuperScalar rendering
• Single-pass multi-texturing
• True color rendering
• Triangle setup engine
• Texture cache
• Bilinear/Trilinear filtering
• Line anti-aliasing
• Full-scene anti-aliasing
• Texture compositing
• Texture decompression
• Specular highlights
• Perspectively correct texture mapping
• Mip-Mapping
• Z-buffering and Double-buffering
• Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
• Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
• Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing
  

This video card is compatible with these Macs:

G4 Tower G4 Sawtooth G4 Gigabit Ethernet G4 Digital Audio
G4 Quicksilver
G4 Mirrored Drive Door (MDD) and FireWire 800 (FW800)
G4 Xserve

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

• No International shipping on this item.

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
• All sales are final
• If you cannot understand or agree to these terms please do not bid

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