On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:48 PM, joplinfan wrote: > I'm getting ready to flash a BFG / Geforce 6200 and a Radeon 9250... > both standard PCI cards... to use in my MDD G4 1ghz towers. Been > studying up on the process at The Mac Elite website where it mentions > that AGP cards require tape to be placed over some of the pins due to > Apple's non standard AGP configuration... but I can't find any info > where this would be required for a PCI card. Anyone know?
No taping required for any PCI cards, but PCI cards are really NOT the way to go. You want an AGP card in your MDD that supports both Quartz Extreme (QE) and Core Image (CI). No PCI cards support QE & CI without using PCI Extreme 3.1 and a hacked ROM for CI support. The bandwidth of PCI is 1/2 AGP. This means any AGPx4 card will have 8x the available throughput of any PCI card. If you're using Tiger or Leopard, forget about the PCI cards and get a nice AGP card. You can flash PC AGP cards if you need cheap. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
