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

Jay Snoke snokejs at npt.nuwc.navy.mil
Wed Aug 6 07:11:23 PDT 2003


Mel and other listas-
	Any word on using QE with a Radeon 7000?  Does the hack work well with 
it?
Jay Snoke

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 07:48 PM, Mel wrote:

> Ryan,
> The fastest PCI video card that will run on a Mac is the ATI Radeon 
> Mac Edition. It is actually faster than the Radeon 7000 that came 
> after it. Unless you can run across some old stock somewhere, you 
> would probably have to find it on eBay. I have one in my Beige G3 and 
> used the Quartz Extreme hack to enable QE on the machine. It is a 
> dramatic improvement over the stock video and provided acceptable 3D 
> performance within the bounds of the Beige architecture. You would 
> likely see better performance in your Sawtooth than I have.
> HTH,
> Mel
>
> On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 10:41  AM, Ryan Fleming wrote:
>
>> Hey can anyone recommend a pci video card for a second monitor. I 
>> have an
>> ATI Radeon 9000 64 megs in my Sawtooth 350 G4 with a really crappy 
>> pci video
>> card for my second monitor. Because the sawtooth can't support dual 
>> monitor
>> cards, at least that's what I've found on some sites, can someone 
>> recommend
>> something?
>>
>> -- 
>> Ryan
>> Randall Flagg
>> www.randallflagg.ws



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