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Video Card for PCI Powermac!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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Hi,
I've been checking out PCI video cards for my 7300 Powermac. I WANT a voodoo 5 but am struggling to raise the $330 and I want TV as an option too. I was looking therefore at the ATi Xclaim 16Mb cards or whatever that offer TV and have I suppose an alright (not that good though) graphics performance. However, there are ATi All-In-Wonder PCI cards for PC which are way better value. Does anyone know why I can't just chuck one of these in my Mac, whether it would be supported. If it doesn't work is there any way of making it work?
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Pete C. (PB12" 1.5Ghz 160GB hdd, 1.25GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Chicago
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Other than Voodoo 3 cards, no PC video card will work in a Mac.
That's why you can't just chuck an ATi All-In-Wonder card for PC in your Mac.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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OK,so there's nothing I can do to modify it to work I take it!?
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Pete C. (PB12" 1.5Ghz 160GB hdd, 1.25GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Pasadena
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nope, unless you know how to write drivers from the hardware specs...*thinks to himself I might be able to do that in a few years...but that'll be quite a LONG wait*
I think there's a difference with the color set, which the beta unsupported V3 drivers emulate or something...
As far as TV card is concerned, since ixMicro went bankrupt a while back, there's been somewhat of a void in that field 
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G4/450, T-bird 1.05GHz, iBook 500, iBook 233...4 different machines, 4 different OSes...(9, 2k, X.1, YDL2.2 respectively) PiA to maintain...
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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maybe wait for a PCI radeon?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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Ok, I think I'll just buy a cheap VooDoo3. I don't have the money for a VooDoo 5 and haven't heard that there will be a PCI Radeon. Besides I think my system won't run those cards very great anyways!
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Pete C. (PB12" 1.5Ghz 160GB hdd, 1.25GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11)
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: London, England
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With the money you save from the Voodoo5 to Voodoo3 (I've seen Voodoo3 PCI cards going for £69), you could easily afford to buy a Formac TV card or similar.
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Aaron
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Chattanooga, TN
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The Radeon was just announced last week at Macworld Expo. I don't recall the estimated ship date, though.
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 1999
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The Radeon will ship in both versions, AGP and PCI, and will cost $279.
The AGP is expected to ship this September while the PCI will ship possibly late fall, not clear yet, ATI only said that it would ship somewhere in Fall, but i expect that the PCI version will supposedly come out later.
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You don't like Macs? Good, more for me.
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