11-21-2010, 09:51 PM
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appreciate the sentiments, and we do have a couple of under-used Minis already, and Baby Buzz is itching to build a hackintosh, but the G5's are friendly w/ expandability and already owned software. This is a relatively short term solution; inasmuch as I don't envision the need for super high end graphics performance, my gut is to sell off the GeForce card because of its likely higher resale value. The Radeon will drive the two monitors most adequately, and allow and the use of an extra PCI card. Again, I was just wondering if I was missing something by wanting to ditch the GeForce... if we had a 30" dual link monitor that needed driving, it would be another story. As hal says, the GeForce is hot, noisy and eats more juice, all reason in favor the Radeon, given the intended usage. We have the Mini's, we'll likely build a hackintosh at some point, I just want to make an informed decision as to which video card to get rid of first.
appreciate the sentiments, and we do have a couple of under-used Minis already, and Baby Buzz is itching to build a hackintosh, but the G5's are friendly w/ expandability and already owned software. This is a relatively short term solution; inasmuch as I don't envision the need for super high end graphics performance, my gut is to sell off the GeForce card because of its likely higher resale value. The Radeon will drive the two monitors most adequately, and allow and the use of an extra PCI card. Again, I was just wondering if I was missing something by wanting to ditch the GeForce... if we had a 30" dual link monitor that needed driving, it would be another story. As hal says, the GeForce is hot, noisy and eats more juice, all reason in favor the Radeon, given the intended usage. We have the Mini's, we'll likely build a hackintosh at some point, I just want to make an informed decision as to which video card to get rid of first.