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.
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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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