On Sep 23, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Gus wrote: > Looking at the picture on the website. It looks like the Radeon 7000 > card is an PCI 32 bit card. The Beige G3 has 16 bit PCI slots. Is > the card dual 16/32 bit compatible?
The Beige can use any Mac ROM PCI video card. The only cards that are incompatible are PCI cards with PC ROMs (PC terminology uses "BIOS" instead of "ROM", but they're both simply the firmware stored on a flash EEPROM). Many of the PC ROM cards can be flashed to a Mac ROM so that they will work in a Mac. (see MacElite forums for ROMs & guides). There is some difference between "new world" and "old world" Macs, such that the GeForce FX5200 PCI that will support QE and CI in a "new world" Mac such as the B&W or Yikes will not support these in an "old world" Mac such as the Beige or a PPC PowerMac. The Beige will support QE using PCI Extreme 3.1 with any QE compatible card, which means all Mac ROM Radeon cards and some nVidia cards. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
