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Best Video Card in Power Mac 6500
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
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Any ideas how I can speed up the video for my G3-upgraded powermac 6500? The CPU and FPU ratings on Norton System Info tests are fantastic, but video rendering is slower than an original iMac. Suggestions??
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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ATI Rage 128 Pro, 16 meg PCI.
No point getting anything faster, you won't benefit from it.
Possibly a Radeon, but I wouldn't go that far, personally.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
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i have a 6500 too and am curious about this question, but I was under the impression that there just weren't a whole lot of video cards that would fit in a 6500 because of the way the PCI board is configured with the motherboard. If I could find an ati rage 128 would it even fit in the machine?
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: South Dakota, USA
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I installed an ATI Rage Orion card in my 6500. It worked fine except when used in conjunction with a G3 processor (I had the sonnet upgrade, but I don't think it mattered who made the processor). I had to disable the 2D acceleration otherwise my 6500 would crash like crazy.
I'm not sure if this bug was ever fixed, as I sold my 6500 last year, but it was a nasty bug.
good luck,
lw
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
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About the G3 upgrade...that IS a problem, and that would be the whole point of getting the card--to use in conjunction w/ the G3/500 upgrade. Video performance is the one thing slowing me WAAAAAY down. My two thoughts were a Mac VillageTronic card or a VooD00 3. Any more info (or old articles on the subject) would be appreciated.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
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I think this might be the answer we're looking for....
ATI faq
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