[G4] Video upgrades for PowerMac G4 dual

[Tex Weinberg]

The vendor known as "applemacanix" on eBy at times sells flashed PCI and AGP cards that postdate the regular G4 performance era.  Right now, that outfit's got a bunch of stuff up on eBay, from the ATI Radeon 7500 to nvidia 7800GTs, many certified to work in an AGP G4.  If you're still doing most of your gaming in OS9, he even has an nvidia GeForce 4 Titatnium 4600 that is allegedly the fastet fully-OS9-compatible 3-D card out there -- for only eighty bucks!  If even that amount of money weren't kind of a big deal to me right now, I would *so* have that on order...  :)

Tex/Alex



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> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:36:03 +0100
> From: Alan Kidner <akidner at ntlworld.com>
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> Check out this site:
> http://themacelite.wikidot.com/compatibility
> 
> I have upgraded my 733MHz G4 to a second hand GeForce 7800
> GS
> 
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> 
> Eric Smith wrote:
> > You can use a PCI card but AGP is waaay faster than
> PCI.
> > You don't say why your ATI Rage is inadequate, but I
> would
> > find PCI cards to be inadequate too.
> > For more information on the differences, see:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port#Advantages_over_PCI
> 
> >
> >
> > I upgraded my PM G4 to the Radeon 9800 Pro.
> >
> > Eric S.
> >
> > David Gardner wrote:
> >> I have a PowerMac G4 dual 500mhz with the standard
> ATI Rage 128 AGP 
> >> card with a measly 16mb video RAM, which is pretty
> inadequate. The 
> >> recommended upgrade is to the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
> Mac Edition, but 
> >> those prices seem pretty high, as well as it being
> pretty rare, 
> >> especially the 128mb version.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to forget the AGP slot completely
> and run a primary 
> >> video card in one of the PCI slots instead, and if
> so, which higher 
> >> end card would work best in this system?
> >>
> >>
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