[G4] Will a newer video card help?

M Hood mehood at mac.com
Wed Jul 30 07:32:21 PDT 2003


You do know that the GF3Ti series are better cards than the GF4MX cards,
right? The MX series are crippled somehow. Full GeForce3's and 4's are much
better than the 'MX' series.

mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DILLOMAN at aol.com>
To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [G4] Will a newer video card help?


> I've got a sawtooth 450MP that had the same ATI 128 AGP card.  I run OS X
[almost] exclusively.  I saw on ebay a nvidia ge4mx(?) (64mb), the same card
that's in my QuickSilver 1gb MP, and went for it.
>
> It worked like a champ... overall computer was xbenched @ 20% faster -
just with the video card.
>
> The worst part was a couple of weeks later, OWC had/has a comparable
nvidia ge3 agp card for $65 or $75 bucks!  That's quite a bit less than what
I paid on ebay for the bigger brother.



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