on 2/15/03 11:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A friend has offered to give me his ViewSonic PF790 19 inch monitor > that he has been using with his G4. > Is it possible to use it with my G3 or do I not have enough juice? My > machine is a beige G3-300 MT, 384 MB ram, 6MB Video RAM. I am currently using > a Hitachi CM620U 17 inch monitor with no problems. I don't plan on using any > heavyweight image applications such as Photoshop. > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Regards, Dean Hey Dean, I have a Beige G3 500MHz 768MB MiniTower which I upgraded from a 266MHz Rev A motherboard and installed the Rev B ROM-DIMM (which you probably have in you 300) and added both the 6MB VRAM to the extra V-Memory Slot and an slipped an ATI Mac Edition 32MB PCI Video Card in one of my empty PCI slots.
I bought a discontinued (but new in the box) Quantex (Hitachi) 19" monitor and an adapter plug ($10 - $15 on eBay) to be able to connect the Q-Hitachi up to the MT and the 19"er works wonderfully! Actually, I really can't tell the difference between connecting the monitor to the ATI Card or the upgraded (Memory) onboard chipset. But then again, I don't do any real heavy duty video / graphics work so in your case if you are doing some real memory intensive video/graphics an ATI Radeon 7000 Card would out perform the onboard Apple/ATI (6MB) RAGE PRO 2D/3D chipset hands down. And keep in mind I'm running an original Rev A motherboard and you probably have the Rev B or C with better onboard Video chipset. I don't believe you will have any problems with the "Free" ViewSonic PF790 19 inch monitor. If he has any more to give away I'd love to get on for a spare or to link up two 19"ers to my Mac!!! Good luck & hope this helps. Regards, --Roger Mechanicsburg, PA USA -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
