I got a GeForce 7800 GS for $50 (from the popular auction site) and flashed it for my G5, it is one of the best AGP cards available. Before that I had a Geforce 6200/256MB AGP card which was also very good, they are pretty easy to find in the $50 range.
On Sep 7, 2:01 pm, Ron Romine <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got a 1.8Ghz, G5 for $45.00, from a government auction. It's > one of the original G5's with a 900Mhz bus, but it has only 512M of > memory and it's missing its hard drive and graphics card. > > Getting the memory (8 gigs) will be easy, so will the hard drive. I > found the mounting screws for the spare HD hidden inside the case. > Currently, I got the G5 running using an external firewire HD, and a > Radeon 9200 PCI in one of the 100Mhz PCI-X slots. > > Is there anyone selling AGP x8 Pro cards for the G5? OWC appears > sold out. > > Also, would the Radeon PCI card run better in the 133mhz slot? Is > the Radeon currently running at 33Mhz or 66Mhz in its current slot? > > Any suggestions for upgrades? > > - Ron. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
