[G4] Sawtooth 350mhz Video upgrade: GeForce 4mx, or GeForce3 ?

[Bill]

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 10:55  AM, kcor24 at earthlink.net wrote:

>
> On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 08:07 AM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:
>
>> The nVidia Geforce 3 with 64MB is NOT the Geforce 4MX's little 
>> brother. It
>> is actually much more powerful than the Geforce 4MX. I don't think 
>> OWC has
>> ever had the Geforce 3 for $75, probably more like $175 minimum. As I
>> mentioned, OWC does have the Geforce 4 MX 32MB (note that the Geforce 
>> 4 MX
>> also comes in a 64MB version) for $75 or so. Still a decent deal, 
>> especially
>> if upgrading from the Rage 128 and if you want to get an ADC monitor 
>> (NOT
>> with a Sawtooth, though).
>>
>
> Is the nVidia Geforce 3 with 64mb too much of a good thing for a 
> Sawtooth 350?
>
> Would the Geforce 4 MX be more compatible with this old Sawtooth?
>
> We'll be using Virtual PC to run a few programs. One, Earthviewer, 
> requires a nVidia card.
>
> TIA
> Kathleen
>
Upgrading the video card for your Mac may not do much for your Virtual 
PC applications. I remember reading that Virtual PC does not support 
video cards for running PC games, I do not think that Windows 
applications can use the video cards feature. If this is why you are 
upgrading the video card, you might want to poke around the VirtualPC 
support site and see if there is an answer before you shell out the 
bucks.

Bill