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

Mel mkrewall at mac.com
Wed Aug 6 16:52:54 PDT 2003


I don't know about the 7000, but it did work on my Radeon. You might 
check the archives at XLR8yourMac.com for info. I vaguely recall this 
being a topic of discussion around the time Jaguar came out.
Mel

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 09:11  AM, Jay Snoke wrote:

> 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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