Re: [OT] A new Video Card
Re: [OT] A new Video Card
- Subject: Re: [OT] A new Video Card
- From: Martin-Luc Girard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:44:30 -0400
Hey!
Well, I have good news and bad news for you.
The good news is that all these cards will perform equally
out-of-the-box with your powermac. The bad news is, none of them will
give you video.
Card manufacturers seem to have this need to charge extra to mac users,
for the privilege of using their cards, even though PC users can get
them sometimes at half the price. And the only difference between the
mac/PC version is the onboard ROM. There's been some success at
flashing a PC card with the mac ROM, but the procedure is unpredictable
at best... Check out www.xlr8yourmac.com for the procedures and
stories...
Your best bet is to find a _mac_ version of the cards (try your local
mac specialist store). You may pay significantly more for the card, but
you are pretty much assured it will work properly.
(Now I can't believe there are still TNT2s being sold.
Meanwhile, a GeForce 3 outperforms many of these cards, and is no
longer sold.)
If you're looking for a video card for QE only, I'd hold on to that
hard-earned money until it's really worth it. Keep your eyes open for
other advances in QE that Panther will bring...
Or you can always shop eBay for some Mac video cards... You can get QE
acceleration with a GeForce 2 w/ 32MB of RAM... Which was the basic
video card for some recent powermacs, and might be on sale by people
who've upgraded...
Hope this helps!
Cheers!!
ML
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 03:54 AM, Daniele M. wrote:
Hello,
I would to buy a new video card for my "old" PowerMac G4/450 (HD Maxtor
60Gb, 384MB RAM and MacOSX 10.26). Recently i have see some good prices
in a shop near my home, but i don't know if these video card can be
used with MacOSX.
This is the list:
NVIDA TNT2 32MB SDR
NVIDIA TNT2 32MB SDR+TV
NVIDIA Geoforce 2 64mb MX400
Nvidia Geoforce 4 64mb MX440 sdr + tv
Nvidia Geoforce 4 64mb mx440 ddr + tv
Nvidia geoforce4 128mb mx440 sdr + tv
Nvidia geoforce4 128mb mx440 ddr + tv
Nvidia geoforce fx-5200 128mb ddr + tv
Nvidia geoforce4 128mb ti280-vivo ddr+tv
ATI radeon 7000 64mb sdr
ati radeon 9100 64mb ddr
maxtron g-550 32mb dual head
What of these video cards are compatible with MacOSX? And what the best
choice? I would to use the Quartz Extreme engine but i don't know how
the performance accelleration. If this "acceleration" is about 2% i
will not buy a new video card and i will wait for a new computer
(around 2 years)... or i will buy more ram....
Is my computer too old for the next releases of MacOSX ?
Thank you for the help.
Daniele
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Westcode Software, Ltd. info: http://www.westcode.vze.com/
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