On Mar 6, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
Would someone suggest a good agp video card, available today, that I
can use in my Quicksilver Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8?
I want to purchase a Samsung 22" HDTV for use as a monitor, and it
requires HDMI input. Perhaps a video card with a DVI connector, as I
have an extra DVI to HDMI adapter.
I guess the key phrase is "available today" ... not sure about where
they are being sold these days, reasonably priced, for a G4.
I currently have a Geforce 4MX in my Quicksilver, and an ATI Radeon
9800Pro in my DA Dual 533 (its DVI to HDMI is being used with a Sony
Bravia from time to time). Another ATI Radeon 9800Pro is probably
too much of a card for what I will be using it for ... I'm not a
gamer.
Thanks.
The ATI Radeon FireGL X3 is a 16 pipeline 8xAGP 256mb video card that
can be purchased for cheap as a PC version on eBay. Unfortunately,
not all of the cheap PC cards on eBay can be successfully converted
for use in a Mac. There is a reseller on eBay that is doing the
conversions, plus he puts them through a 4 to 7 day torture test, to
make sure that they are not going to fail after he sells them. He
charges about $170 to $180 for them, I can't remember the exact
amount. You have to modify the pins on the card by covering 2 or 3 of
them with tape, as the AGP slot in your QuickSilver Mac is not
standard electrically, when compared to PC 4xAGP slots, as Apple used
a few pins for ADC power that were outside of the standard 4xAGP
specification, so the later 8xAGP cards would not work in the Mac
slots without having a few pins taped to prevent damage to the video
card, and possibly the computer as well.
It is all well documented, if you do some searching. Try
"themacelite" to find more information. If you are interested in the
eBay seller who is doing the conversions and can't find him, send me a
private email and I will look back through my saved emails to see if I
can find him. He is a video card expert and converts and sells many
different cards for use in Macs. The FireGL X3 is one of my personal
favorites, and I am getting one for my dual 2.7GHz G5 PowerMac, so it
needs no modification of the AGP card edge pins.
David
aka AmigaDave
dual booting MacOSX & MorphOS2.7 on my dual 1.42GHz G4 PowerMac MDD, &
dual booting MacOSX & MorphOS3.0 beta on 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook's 15" &
17"
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