24 Chapter 2 Using Your Computer
Using the Ports on Your Graphics Card
The graphics cards used with the Power Mac G5 have unique ports with different
capabilities. Use System Profiler to determine which graphics card is installed in your
Power Mac G5.
To open System Profiler:
1 Choose Apple () > About This Mac.
2 Click More Info.
3 Select Graphics/Displays.
Use the guidelines in the table below to determine the type of ports on your graphics
card.
You can connect a video device using the DVI to Video Adapter to ports with TV-out
capability. For more information, see “Connecting a Television, VCR, or Other Video
Device” on page 25.
Graphics card Port 2 Port 1
ATI Radeon 9600 single-link DVI single-link DVI
TV out
ATI Radeon 9650 dual-link DVI single-link DVI
TV out
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL dual-link DVI
TV out
dual-link DVI
TV out
ATI Radeon X850 XT dual-link DVI
TV out
ADC
DVI display ports
ADC display portDVI display port
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