On May 9, 2009, at 9:29 AM, DKline wrote:
> > My system now has a stock Rage128 Pro Graphics card which is very slow > at displaying screens. What upgrade cards are available AGP and would > it significantly accelerate displaying Yes, a faster card would help some. There are many ATI Radeons-7000, 9000, 9600, 9800 and some NVidia GeForces 2Mx, 4Mx 4Ti and 5200, some of which are hacked from G5s to work in G4s. I am running 2 of the hacked cards in my DAs without problems. There are also a variety of flashed pc cards that work, but some have sleep issues. A faster card will help with all screen display chores, redrawing finder windows, scrolling, displaying multiple windows at one time, etc. It is noticeable if you are looking for it. FWIW, my monitor (an older 21" CRT) will not start up OCCASIONALLY when I start up my Mac with it plugged into a hacked AGP 9600. For these times I also have a 16Mb PCI Rage installed. If I am doing my normal workload (light office tasks with way too many icons on the desktop and windows open), I have to pay attention to realize if I have switched back to the 9600. Where it really shows up is screen redraws (opening/closing windows, switching apps) and almost not noticeable for displaying web pages, typing a letter and small photoshop chores. > and downloading things on the > internet. It will not help with downloading. That is purely a factor of the speed of your connection. It will help SOME with the rendering of web pages on your screen, but not much. > It's VRAM is only 16mb so I'm assuming it's creating a > bootleneck to the entire system. Thanks DKline The bottleneck is for displaying info. It will not speed up you connection, but overall things will be snappier. Len --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
