[G4] Video Card Upgrade Question

[Hal]

Hi. I have a Samsung 19" Widescreen display, and I can tell you that  
after running it off both DVI and VGA interfaces (the display  
supports both), things are MUCH crisper using DVI. If your card has  
an ADC port, you might try picking up an ADC-DVI adapter (should be  
under $20) and see how it looks with a digital signal. I'm willing to  
bet it'll look a lot better.

Obviously, more RAM and a faster CPU will always help, but if you're  
not dropping frames on playback, then that's not your bottleneck.

Hope that helps.

-Hal

On May 7, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Preston Peek wrote:

> Hello All -- By way of introduction, let me state that I've used  
> Macs for 22
> years, and know enough techie stuff to just get by -- or get myself  
> into
> trouble.
>
> I have a Quicksilver Power Mac G4, 933 MHz, 512 RAM, with a  
> GeForce4 MX
> chipset, 64 MB VRAM. (If this isn't enough info for your response,  
> please
> let me know...)
>
> I've just purchased a Samsung 22" widescreen monitor, but can only  
> attach it
> to my analog VGA port (no DVI on my G4). The picture, even on a Hi  
> Def DVD,
> is not so hot. I know someone who runs this monitor from a PC for  
> gaming,
> and he's blown away by it. Not so me.
>
> My question is: If I upgrade my video card (I'm looking at a Mac  
> ATI Radeon
> 9200 128MB AGP DVI Video Card) will this improve my resolution? Will
> increasing the RAM (which I badly need) help?
>
> And on a related issue: Is anyone familiar with the $299  
> "SuperCharged 1.5
> GHz PowerMac G4 CPU Upgrade G-Celerator, 1.53 GHz with the  
> supercharged 2MB
> Cache... The "Plug & Play" 1.5 GHz that will more than triple the  
> speed of
> your Power Macintosh G4 system!?" Worth it. I could sure use some  
> speed
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
>
> Preston
>