I need a video card able to support Direct3D® 10 technology, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card with 512 - 1gb of memory.
What video cards can I use? And where can I get one?|||The most powerful, current, graphics cards are the AMD Radeon 5770 and Radeon 5870. Both will work in your system and can be bought direct from the Apple store. They are in the displays & graphics section.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC742Z…
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC743Z…
There are two other ways to do things, but involve risk and more effort. The first is to buy a used mac compatible graphics card or a pre-flashed PC graphics card (the Mac firmware has been applied to a PC card by someone else). eBay is a good source for such things and they can be cheap options. The Radeon 4870 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 were last generation's graphics cards, I wouldn't go further back than that in technology.
The most complex option is to flash a PC card yourself. You need a PC and some technical ability, but it is just a case of understanding and following instructions - this lets you save a lot of money or use cards that aren't available on the Mac such as newer Radeon 6000 series cards. The Mac Pro sub-forum over at macrumors.com has a wealth of information on such things if you aren't happy with the two official Apple options.|||you can go to apple.com and see there forums with old tech specs and upgradeable products also if you click on the apple button and click about this computer and then more information you can see your current card and computer limits
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