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video card help needed
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hi could any-one say if this AGP graphics card (being sold on ebay) would be any good on a PowerMac G4 466MHZ as an upgrade. The seller says it does not fit Macs but does not explain why. Would it just need a driver or something.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...e=STRK:MEWA:IT
I need a better card as the one fitted as standard does not support quartz extreme. thanks
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Originally posted by MAC365:
hi could any-one say if this AGP graphics card (being sold on ebay) would be any good on a PowerMac G4 466MHZ as an upgrade. The seller says it does not fit Macs but does not explain why. Would it just need a driver or something.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...e=STRK:MEWA:IT
I need a better card as the one fitted as standard does not support quartz extreme. thanks
If that card was not made with a mac rom, it will NOT work in a mac. IIRC, the GF2mx that was made for the mac was only a 32mb card...only the GF3/mac was 64mb 
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Personally I find it hilarious that you have the hots for my gramma. Especially seeins how she is 3x your age, and makes your Brittney-Spears-wannabe 30-something wife look like a rag doll who went thru WWIII with a burning stick of dynamite up her a** :)
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oh f f***s sake - I spose I will have to pay about double the pc going rate for the exact same thing - no change there then
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Originally posted by bowwowman:
If that card was not made with a mac rom, it will NOT work in a mac. IIRC, the GF2mx that was made for the mac was only a 32mb card...only the GF3/mac was 64mb
Correction, the regular Geforce 2MX's had 32MB, but the Geforce 2MX Twinview, like this one, which can handle dual monitors had 64MB. Still it doesn't say it has a Mac ROM.
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Originally posted by MAC365:
oh f f***s sake - I spose I will have to pay about double the pc going rate for the exact same thing - no change there then
Not quite. Mac graphics cards are more expensive, but there are a lot of people selling flashed PC graphics cards for a price between the Mac-native version (generally insanely high) and the PC version (very low). It's not the best situation, but it works out okay.
So, you can get a PC GeForce 3 for probably $30-$40 or so. The Mac native version is usually over $200. Then there are flashed ones for $50-$60.
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