On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 12:21 Europe/London, Rik Gresham wrote: > I can deal with a slower computer but the display speed is somewhat > short. Can anyone > recommend a PCI video card that would work well with this > configuration? Preferably one with dual monitor support, so I can > just pull the Twin Turbo and plug it all in?
The only PCI Mac cards that support QE are the Radeon PCI Mac Edn. and the Radeon 7000 PCI Mac Edn. Which you buy depends on you budget, and what you want from the card. The Original Radeon PCI is a faster 3D card than the Radeon 7000, but the Radeon 7000 offers marginally better 2D (i.e. desktop application) performance due to the faster GPU chip and RAM. The Radeon 7000 PCI Mac Edn. is readily available for about $100 and comes with 1 VGA port, 1 DVI port and a DVI to VGA adapter as well as a PC-VGA to Mac adapter for older monitors, and support Dula Monitor fully. I know all this because I have a Radeon 7000 ME in my G3/400 B&W. I imagine the Radeon PCI ME also supports Dual Monitor in the same way as the 7000 ME but I am not 100% certain. The Radeon PCI ME is also harder to find and not sold retail anymore. They can be located for about $150-175 depending on where you look. > I know several cards off the > top of my head that are X compatible but how many of them on an Old > World machine? And how many of them for under $150? They both work in any Old world PCI PowerMac (certainly 7300+, 8500+ and 9500+ anyway) with Mac OS 9.0.4 or later. They did not until OS X 10.2 Jaguar run 100% right on older machines in OS X. That is fixed now apparently. You may not get a picture until the screen driver kicks on (the bit with the Welcome box and progress bar) but that's hardly a major drag if it works! Another Tip, unless you have another computer ear-marked for that IX3D card leave it in, it will work, as you have seen no doubt, with OS X, so you could potentially attach 4 monitors to your 8500 :) > (proudly written with Mail on an 8500) I have a stock 7300/200 with it's 604e/200 and 4GB hard disk. All I added was 320MB RAM (out of my old 7500 which was replaced by my G3/400) and my old Rage 128 card (knocking about spare since I got my Radeon) in that runs as my server, it has OS X Server 10.1 and it runs impressively well. Now that's what I call using old hardware to the Max :) -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> "Never send a human to do a machine's job." -The Matrix -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
