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What do I need or is it possible
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: In my Head,Body & Spirit
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I have a B&W 450/uwscici, with a ATI-Pro Rage, is there an update card/cards that i could look for, or be guided towards, so that I can get my machice to take at vantage of Quartz Extreme - And of course I want to spend as little as possible, planning to update in early March '04. Also, I don't do allot of intense graphics, but we do have a small biz and use AppleWorks and Stone's Create to do a few things. Thanks for your recommendations.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Aiken, South Carolina, USA
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i'm sure you could get another graphics card and a cpu upgrade
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Apple II GS | Powerbook 165 | iMac Rev. A 96mb RAM| iBook G3 500mhz, 128mb RAM | Power Macintosh G5 1.6ghz, 2.25gb RAM | Black MacBook 2ghz, 2gb RAM | iPhone Rev. A 8gb HD
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Binghamton, New York, USA
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The only card that I know which will provide Quartz Extreme support is the ATI 7000. QE support is provided via a software hack. I can't remember the name of it though. Check out http://www.xlr8yourmac.com, they have info about it. HTH
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2.3Ghz 17" SandyBridge MBP 8GB RAM 7.2k 750GB HD anti-glare display|Dell 2408WFP|64GB iPad2 ATT 3G
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Michigan, USA
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Yep, the Radeon 7000 is about your only option (new retail) as far as covering the video card requirements. The PCI video bus, which was only changed to AGP on the second release of the G4's, was deemed too slow (and probably with good reason from what I've read) to support the QE technology. There is a hack available, that I think is called PCI Extreme, to override the AGP bus check. I've read some mixed reviews with that hack due to bus overloading, or some such thing.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: If I tellz ya, then I gotsta killz ya !
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Well.......
Ive got the Radeon 7000, the PCI extreme hack, and an overclocked 550mhz G4(to 650) upgrade card running in my smurf machine.....notta problemo 
If you're gonna get a new machine (DP G5?) in '04 anyway, dont bother with spending the upgrade $$, unless you plan to keep the old one too......
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