[G4] Replacing video card in G4 dual 1.25 GHz tower

[Richard Klein]

Gary Goodenough wrote:
> The fan is going out on the original NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 128MB card 
> in my G4 Dual 1.25 GHz MDD tower I am looking for a replacement video card.
> 
> I don't use the computer for games but I do use it for large Photoshop 
> and Illustrator work including QTVR stitching using Apple's QTVR 
> Authoring Studio. When stitching very large files with Authoring Studio 
> I sometimes boot into OS 9.2.2
> 
> OWC offers a couple of *modified from a G5* ATI RADEON 9600 PRO 4X AGP 
> 64MB for a great price that will work in a G4. But going to 64MB of 
> video ram from 128MB seems like a step backwards. These cards will work 
> with 9.2.2 unaccelerated.
> 
> The other possibility is a ATI RADEON 9600 PRO 4x/8x AGP 256MB card 
> which will work in a G4 MDD but nobody can answer what happens when 
> booting into 9.2.2?
> 
> It seems like the ideal card may be a ATI 9600 128MB card but these are 
> not available, and I am not sure of their dual boot capability.

You need a certain amount of video memory for a given resolution and 
color depth.  Beyond that, I think excess memory is just used for 3D 
textures.  It sounds like everything you do is 2D, so I think 64MB will 
be fine for you, but I hope you can get a more authoritative answer.

-- Rich