[G4] video card

[michael Vogt]

I have 8500 in my 400 sawtooth and works great
and I have the 7000 in my G3 400 it works great they both have the DVI 
apple flat screen
I not sure why any one would say that the it would be wast of time on 
older G4
Michael & Sharon  Vogt <><s
On Jan 8, 2004, at 3:20 PM, lavode at comcast.net wrote:

> Personally, I have heard that anything over a Radeon 7000 is a waste 
> of money for the older G4s.  Of course, I have a Yikes!, and I may be 
> confusing specific info about my computer.  I plan on getting one of 
> the 64mb 7000 cards, as it will still support dual monitor, provide a 
> ton of VRAM compared to the 16mb in there now, will allow me to run 
> QE, and doesn't have wake from sleep issues withe the Yikes.  What 
> more could I need?
>
> YMMV,
> Lavode
>
>>> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:39:45 -0500
>>>
>>> What is the best, video card now, that would work in my older 
>>> Sawtooth
>>> G4?
>>>
>>>
>>> Tks-
>>> Richard
>>
>>
>> The best that provides dual monitor support would be the Radeon 9800 
>> with
>> DVI and VGA, 128MB of RAM, followed by the Radeon 8500 with DVI and 
>> VGA,
>> 64MB RAM.
>> The problem with the Sawtooth is that it can't use ADC, so any video 
>> cards
>> with ADC ports are "wasted" - though naturally if you only need 1 
>> monitor,
>> you could always use the DVI (or VGA) port, so at that point any ATI 
>> video
>> card should be okay, as well as most nVidia cards (though there may be
>> trouble with 8x AGP cards, you'd have to check for info on that).
>>
>> I like the Radeon 8500. You could also try a PC version of the Radeon 
>> 8500
>> and flash it with Mac firmware, which might save you $50 or so.
>>