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, 05 Jun 2003 09:52:34 -0400
Hmm I forgot about the prior-to-DA powermacs...
Powermacs prior to the Digital Audio models (133MHz bus) do not have
the power connector for ADC cards. The (mac) cards apparently still run
though, but without the ADC port...
As for the cards not running on older models, well, IIRC, the AGP 4x
specs are _supposed_ to be backwards compatible with AGP 2x slots...
Don't know how much a speed difference it makes though, with such a
lower-end card...
Once again, check out www.xlr8yourmac.com for user stories :)
Or would someone with hands-on experience care to share their findings?
Personally, I don't game much, so I'm quite happy with my rage128Pro
and my powermac 466DA... and I really don't notice that much of a
difference between no-QE vs the bare-minimum-spec'd iBook here (at 16MB
vram)
Still though, it's a shame seeing all your friends' good video cards
going to the dumpster... maybe you should scavenge some and try them
out :) You've got nothing to lose, and a video card to gain! (let's not
mention the environmental consequences of throwing good cards out...)
Cheers!
ML
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 09:20 AM, Wade Tregaskis wrote:
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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