Inexpensive video cards

At work I have two Mac Pro's and both the video cards have died. They had ATI Radeon HD4870 512MB PCIE cards. With tight economy I need to find inexpensive replacements cards. The computers are used by our graphics department so no video editing or gaming refresh speed needs, they just do Photoshop all day.
The original cards are over $500 each to replace, can someone recommend a decent card around $200-$250 price?
Thanks.

That pretty much describes all Mac Pros regardless of production year. Open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. You should see a Machine ID that may look like, "MacPro 2,1." Those two numbers tell us which specific model you have.
If it's a 2007 model the following cards were provided by Apple: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, GeForce 8800 GT, Quadro FX 4500, or ATI Radeon X1900 XT.
If it's an Early 2008 model the cards were: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600.
Skip the Quadro cards and the X1900 as they are the expensive ones. The 7300, 8800, and 2600 models all work provided you can find the Apple/Mac versions. Street versions will not work without flashing their ROMs which requires special knowledge.

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