[poulh]

Around MacWorld time I remember reading that someone was coming out with an 800mhz G3 upgrade card for blue and white g3 towers. Does anyone know what company this is?

[cocamix]

Powerlogix. I already ordered one, but they won't ship until the last half of March.

[macvillage.net]

I think I'm about to join the party with 1 or 2.

[kentuckyfried]

http://www.powerlogix.com/products2/...mance/zif.html

In terms of performance for games, I'm assuming the 800 mhz g3 upgrade is better than the 500 Mhz altivec enhanced G4? A lot of games (like Freedom Force) specify a G4....


The 800 mhz is $300 btw.

[poulh]

I've heard that apple's opengl implementation is altivec (g4) enhanced. Therefore I'd bet a slower (mhz wise) g4 could keep up w/ this upgrade card. Plus, most g4's have agp slots for graphics cards while the blue and white g3 only has pci.

Can a game use your graphics card in osX if it is below a 32 meg card? Or does the 32 meg card only for quartz extreme?

[Pilotkev]

Originally posted by poulh:
I've heard that apple's opengl implementation is altivec (g4) enhanced. Therefore I'd bet a slower (mhz wise) g4 could keep up w/ this upgrade card. Plus, most g4's have agp slots for graphics cards while the blue and white g3 only has pci.

See this thread for more info on this debate:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=146715

I've got the G3/800 on order from www.powerlogix.com Scheduled to ship in March (I hope)

Kevin