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PC Video Cards on a Mac
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Join Date: May 2001
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I'm looking to replace the default ATI card in my AGP G4/400 and in the first few minutes on my search through various online shops I discovered an unpleasant tendency: Mac cards cost up to 2.5 times more than their PC counterparts. I've read elsewhere on these forums that PC Radeons don't work in Macs. Is it the same with NVidia cards and are there any workarounds to this problem. Also, could anyone recommend some good online shops that ship internationally?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
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Good question - I'd love to replace the ATI Rage Pro in my machine
but I was thinking a GForce would be nice to pop in there. Yet, I
have no clue if a PC version would work or not. I know that PC ram
and PC drives work fine, so why not a video card?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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I'm not an expert on this but I believe that PC cards are incompatible on Macs becasue of the different interface instructions built into their ROM. PCs use a different architecture for processing data instructions and all PCI/AGP cards need to be able to recognize it. I don't think these can be replaced in any easy way.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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Apparently you can flash some PC graphics cards to work in a mac. Don't ask me how, cus I don't have a pc card...
Maybe do a search for flashing a pc video card to mac, or something along those lines.
Someone more knowledgeable about this is also bound to respond.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Flashing a PC GeForce3 card to work on a Mac has worked great for many people out there and there is a bunch of info out there on it. I wish I had known about this before wasting the extra money on the Apple GF3.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/..._geforce3.html
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Across the river from Trump Chicago
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Originally posted by 11011001:
<STRONG>Apparently you can flash some PC graphics cards to work in a mac. Don't ask me how, cus I don't have a pc card...</STRONG>
Yup, GeForce 3 cards and VooDoo3 cards can be flashed o work on Macs. 
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Join Date: May 2001
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http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/flashing_pc_geforce3.html
Wow thanks Just what I wanted.. I did some more search across the web and it looks like there's no way to buy a standalone geforce for mac at all. I'll look at xlr8yourmac and see if it's a safe enough way to save a couple hundreds of $.
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