I have a G5 2.3GHz Dual Core with the NVidia 6600 card installed. Apart from an increasingly loud recently-installed Seagate 1TB harddrive, the computer has been blissfully quiet--the fans rarely come on. I just bought a 2.0GHz Dual Core only because it was too cheap to pass up ($330 in the original box in perfect condition). It has the NVidia GeForce 7800 GT card with 256MB DDR3 VRAM as opposed to the 6600 which is merely DDR. The 2.0GHz runs noticeably louder, however, and the constant fan noise I'm not used to must be that big one on the GPU. I had considered swapping the cards but now I hesitate. Will I notice much or a performance increase if I were to install the 7800 or would I just be installing a noise increase? Any Quadro 4500 users out there? Can Mac Pro video cards be used in these G5s?
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