On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > That involves having a PC correct. Sorry I don't allow those in my > house.
The only card that normally required a PC was the 7000, BUT, that has changed, and you can now do 7000's also without a PC, so the answer is NO, you don't need a PC for any card. The only requirement would be you'd need a PCI card so that you can see your monitor while you're flashing the AGP card. > Seriously though, it might be easier to get a PC one as they go for > peanuts > compared to Mac ones. I paid over $100 for my first 7000 PCI directly from ATI in Canada. My 2nd was less than $25 and worked identically. My third was about $50 for a Radeon 8500 which is about double a 7000, and Mac ones were going for $200-ish. ATI has treated Mac customers poorly in my opinion. Strangely, I had a PC "hackintosh" for a short while, and my Mac card wouldn't work at all, so I had to flash it back to PC in order to run OS X. That was a shocker, a Mac card that wouldn't work with OS X. I think the Intel Macs can use normal PC cards now? Aside from flashing the card, there may be other minor considerations. Some cards have sleep issues I hear, but since I never use sleep, I don't know anything about these issues, or what cards are effected. If you disable sleep, no problems. A 2nd minor issue is the fact that PC cards VRAM speeds are sometimes different than Mac cards and minor "tweaking" of the GPU and bus MHz speeds may be required for perfect "artifact free" function. My experience has been the most PC cards have faster VRAM than Mac cards and thus work fine without "tweaking" or better yet, can be safely overclocked to operate faster than the Mac cards would. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
