On Oct 20, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > Is AGP that much faster than PCI? I have been Googling the question > and it > seems not.
In standard 33MHz PCI slots a PCI video card is 1/2xAGP speed. If you had a 66MHz PCI slot (you don't, but the PCI Graphics "Yikes" has one, and also the "B&W" G3 has one), this slot would be the equivalent of 1xAGP. Your AGP Graphics "Sawtooth" has a 2x AGP, which is 4x faster than the fastest PCI slot. Using an AGP video card is a no brainer unless you have a dead AGP slot. I've already told you this information before, so why are you still Googling? Don't trust me? > I have both Tiger and Leopard installed on the Sawtooth and the only > advantage of having a massive graphics card would be for Core Image > and > Quartz Extreme in Leopard. However, I use Tiger the most and this is > very > spritely as it is. Just try scrolling a giant long document or webpage. S-L-O-W. For that matter, you can go to XBench archives and look up the differences between a Sawtooth with a good card and one with a bad card. A quick glance shows one with a Radeon 9800 getting graphics scores around 75-80 range, and one with an OEM Rage getting scores in the 15-20 range. Your PCI card will be one half of this, so it should test out in the 8-10 range (run the test yourself, see). You can see these archive results yourself at: <http://db.xbench.com/> You can flash cheap PC card over to Mac easy enough. Just get any old cheap 7000 or whatever you think is appropriate. Look here for info and ROMs: <http://themacelite.wikidot.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
