[G4] ADC Adapter or ADC Graphics PCI?

Richard Klein richspk at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 06:47:56 PST 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com [mailto:g4-
> bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of John Niven
> 
> I'm confused about that also. If the AGP slot is
> faster, how come ATI make accelerated Mac video cards
> in PCI form? Surely there can't be THAT many "yikes"
> G4's still out there? And how come they don't make
> them use the 64bit wide PCI available?
> 
> Anybody understand that?

They still make servers on the PC side that don't have AGP slots, because
servers don't need fast graphics.  They can take a PC card and make it a Mac
card just by flashing different firmware onto it.  I'm just guessing, but
that may have something to do with it.

-- 
Rich



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