[G4] Video cards

[Mel Krewall]

Jim,
The main question comes down to: How much do you want to spend? In 
order of performance - the top of the heap is the Nvidia Geforce 6800 
for about $600 from the Apple Store (I have read that availability of 
this card is pretty scarce). Then comes the ATI Radeon 9800 SE and Pro, 
$400 and $350 respectively (less from many online stores). Below that 
is the Radeon 9200 PCI ($130) and 9000 AGP ($150), but I'm not sure 
they're any faster than your Geforce 4 Ti. You can probably find some 
Geforce 5200s on eBay, but I'm almost sure they don't work in G4s. 
That's pretty much it. ATI has yet to come out with a Mac version of 
their latest X800 card. I don't think any of the cards would have more 
than basic capability in OS 9. Development of drivers for OS 9 video 
cards just about stopped almost two years ago. I know I've read about 
people complaining that the ATI cards don't have some of the good 
features in OS 9. Same is probably true for Nvidia.
HTH,
Mel

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On Oct 8, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Jim wrote:

> Hi all, I'm a new subscriber and this is my first post.
>   I have a G4, DP MDD 1.25Ghz with 1 gig ram.
> I have both bootable systems on my computer, OS 9 and OS X, 10.2.8.
>
> I am wanting to upgrade my video card to increase my frame rates for 
> gaming purposes.  I've gone round and round trying to figure out which 
> card is better and which card will work on both OS 9 and OS X.
>
> The video card I have now is the NVDA,GeForce4Ti 4600.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions and help that I can get to solve 
> this problem.
> Thanks
>
>
>
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