Re: [OT] A new Video Card
Re: [OT] A new Video Card
- Subject: Re: [OT] A new Video Card
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:20:46 +1000
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...
I have a Sawtooth G4, which is probably what the original poster has
(or the earlier models, Yikes, I think). When the boards after mine
came out, Apple touted the new boards as being capable of using GeForce
2's (all the rage at the time). That was why the new models had them,
rather than old ATI Rage 128 Pro's. Word from nVidia was that Apple's
AGP bus on the Sawtooth and earlier wasn't capable of much of the
functionality the GeForce 2 (and newer) required to work, and nVidia
wasn't willing to sacrifice performance for compatibility (nor,
probably, do such a low-volume production run of a different
board/ROM/whatever).
And yet here sits yet another person claiming they can use a GeForce 2
on such an unsupported machine. What's the bottom line with this? Do
the cards work (albeit badly?), or was this whole problem just made up
by Apple and nVidia to sell new machines?
I've seen friends literally throw out GeForce 2's, and haven't grabbed
one because I've always been told by the official sources that they
simply won't work. As you can imagine, I'm potentially quite peeved at
this wasted opportunity...
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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