Kris. It seems Apple made a major mistake making the Sawtooth AGP 2x only. At the end of the day, the machine doesn't have enough processor power to warrant a 128MB or higher graphics card.
If I swapped the PCI ATI Rage card I have for an AGP version that would make a bit of difference and these are going for less than £10 inc postage. This Mac only cost me £17 in postage, fully working, I just added some extra RAM, hard drives and a DVDRW I had laying around. I even got given a USB2 card for nothing. I don't want to shell out a fortune on a graphics card. This is a get-me-by Mac until I scrape enough cash to get a faster one. Simon --- www.simonroyal.co.uk and www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth From: Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21/10/2008 11:58 On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > Just been browsing round the link you sent. It has no mention of > flashing > PC cards on a Mac, just on a PC or am I being dim again. I'll look later, I'm busy now. There are generic Radeon flash tools and all you need is the specific ROM binary file for your card. You Sawtooth AGPx2 slot is a limitation also, as you already know with your nVidia card failure, which surprised me since the PCI versions work fine in older Macs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
