I have a DP 533 DA, and I also installed a flashed GeForce 6200 AGP card. It made a significant difference; between that and an Acard SATA card, my machine is pretty useful. My test application was Klondyke Forever; the animation with the Rage 128 card was unusable, but with the 6200, it runs smoothly and easily.
The one limitation I find with this machine is YouTube. I'm a career college instructor, and there's a lot of video resources on YouTube that I can't use with this machine. It just takes too much CPU horsepower. Although this machine is fine in most other respects (browsing, streaming audio, office applications, etc), that one issue has me looking wistfully at used G5's. I know that Mac Mini's are a cheap way into the current Apple Intel system, but I'm an engineer and a tower guy. - Michael B. in Cincinnati On Nov 24, 12:23 am, Stewie de Young <stewies...@hotmail.com> wrote: > A flashed Radeon 9800 256mb card off ebay will set you back $200 but is > probably the best you could get for a 2X AGP slot. > It depends on how much you want to spend too. > A 128mb version of the same card would set you back $125 or more. > I just bought a flashed nVidia 6200 256mb for my 2X AGP Cube and is quite > good too and at only Au$99 is pretty good value in my opinion. > Don't forget these are flashed PC cards. Retail Mac versions of the same > video cards are probably double that at least. > An AGP card is also a lot faster than its PCI equivalent as well. > > Stewie > > > > > From: g...@gmx.net > > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > > Subject: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4 > > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:08:03 +0100 > > > I`m slowly upgrading an old G4 Gigabit Ethernet for the young son of a > > friend. > > > I have already maxed out the memory through the LEM swapt list and it works > > much better with 2Gb of RAM (the system is currently running OS 10.4.11). > > > It is still used to play games and the original ATI Rage 128 with 16mb VRAM > > isn`t up to the task of running Medal of Honor as fluidly as it should. > > > Being not too familiar with this model, and after a Google search, I`m > > looking for advice on how to upgrade the video card. > > > As I have been able to check, this model only has an AGP x2 slot for video > > cards, plus the PCIs. > > > The ATI Radeon 7500 Mac Edition seems to be compatible, but at 32Mb doesn`t > > seems to provide much advantage for mid-2000s needs! > > > Has anybody proceeded with such upgrade and, if so, which cards have been > > used? I guess going for PCI would be better, although I`m not sure the speed > > of the PCI slots of this model can run "modern" cards. > > > Thanks! > > > Gorka from Spain. > > > -- > > 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 athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our netiquette > > guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > Download new and classic emoticon packs at Emoticon World Brought to you > exclusively by Windows Livehttp://windowslive.ninemsn.com.au/emoticon.aspx? -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
