I bought the original Radeon Mac Edition (not 7000) a couple months ago for A Lot of Money�. Comparing it to the $100 7000, I'm glad I paid the extra for the older card. The Radeon made an enormous difference to the usability of my computer. I'm not certain I could say that I would have been half as pleased with the 7000. If, however, you buy the $30 PC edition and flash it on a friend's PC... I'm not runnign Quartz Extreme. I hear it messes with the PCI timings etc etc and I run SCSI drives off a SCSI card and I want that to be reliable. I'm currently unable to justify the $200 to switch a G3/450 to a G4/450. I hear is should make interface tasks about 50% faster or so. I'm really only concermed with beefing the interface - it crunches fast enough for my use.
Aqua
Just picked up a B&W G3 - 400. It had 128M of RAM which I increased to 384M. The System is FAST, running Mac OS X 10.2 with patch 6 and Mac OS Classic 9.2.2. My Question is about upgrade experiences. This machine is a REV 2. THX to Lowend Mac and xlr8 for pointing out the Rev 1. and Rev 2. Diffs... It has an ATI RAGE 128 PCI card.
I overclocked it to 450MHz, no lockups, and I added a CPU FAN for safe measure.
Question; Is it worth it for a PCI MAC Edition RADION 32MB 7000 card? I am looking at $100 USD What is the performance increase with a G4 ZIF upgrade at 400MHz/450MHz or 533MHz? Is it worth the ?200 USD Is QUARTZ Extreme worth the $300 upgrades, I paid $300 for the unit.
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