As far as upgrading the video for display on a monitor you have two options. Upgrade the onboard VRAM [it takes up to 6MB of SGRAM in an SO-DIMM form factor, the upgrade DIMM is 4MB as there is 2MB soldered on the board]. Or add a PCI video card. A PCI video card such as an IXMicro or ATi card, if you are running Mac OS 8-9.x you could also use a 3dfx card. In Mac OS 8 or 9 for general use the onboard is not bad at all. For gaming or higher end use, you would benefit from any of those branded cards. In Mac OS X both IXMicro and ATi cards are supported, ATi Rage128 or Radeon based card will give the best performance in Mac OS X as IXMicro cards do not do 3D acceleration, only 2D. The IXMicro cards do however sell for bargain basement prices.
David
On Dec 10, 2003, at 1:41 PM, nathan wrote:
The SCSI card would have been PCI, the vertical card next to the PCI slots is the personality card which does video and audio.
-- With those cards? Like video, do they have VGA connectors? Are they
better than a PCI vidcard? If the questions get annoying let me know...
Just curious about my "new" G3...
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