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Advice on G4/400 video card upgrade
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2001
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I have tried to read through the past postings on similar subjects, but I am still confused as to what I should do with upgrading our church's G4/400 tower. Currently, the tower has the original RagePro AGP card. We want to use this machine to run Keynote presentations with dual monitor support (a 17" Display for the person running the machine, and then an overhead LCD projecting the images from the presentation).
Can I get a PCI video card to put in one of the available slots, which would then offer an additional VGA port for the LCD projector? If so, any advice as to which one? Someone has provided us with a Radeon 7500 PCI card - but is there a way to use that in a Mac OS X system? Not for games, just to be able to run Keynote stuff and DVDs.
Thanks for your help!
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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You actually do not need dual montitor support (independendt images on the two screens/outputs but Mirroring ie the same thing on both. It might be that the original card support that through a DVI to VGA adaptor, as I recall it does.
Ther is no retail ATI Radeon 7500 supporting the Mac, however, there was a OEM version of the 7500 in some powermac models a while ago.
Otherwise the ATI Radeon 7000 PCI card is the cheapest card (120 dollars) with OS X support that you can buy new.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Originally posted by DrBoar:
You actually do not need dual montitor support (independendt images on the two screens/outputs but Mirroring ie the same thing on both. It might be that the original card support that through a DVI to VGA adaptor, as I recall it does.
A Rage Pro or a RAge 128 Pro card does not support multiple monitors. It may have two connectors on it, but that is just to give you the choice of one connector OR the other.
Now, as for the Radeon 7500, are you sure it's a PCI card? The only Radeon 7500 for the Mac is an AGP OEM card. OEM means ATI supplies it only to Apple to be put in Macs. The Radeon 7500 OEM AGP card for Macs does support 2 monitors. It has a VGA connector and a DVI connector (it looks like a DVI, could be an ADC connector).
By the way, this G4/400 Tower, is the video card in a PCI slot or an AGP slot? I believe there were G4/400 with PCI video and AGP video.
The ATI Radeon 7000 with give you support for another two monitors.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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If you have a G4/400 AGP, you can either get a new AGP-card or get an additional PCI-card. I'd recommend the ATI Radeon 8500 AGP video card, it has a VGA, a DVI and an S-Video out and you can use all three of'em at the same time.
If you have a G4/400 PCI you need a new and/or additional PCI video card, I'd recommend the ATI Radeon 7000 PCI MAC Edition.
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