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The Fastest AGP Card Available to Macs?
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yellow said:
Well I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't a G5 and he accidently typed G4, toolbox..errr...Yeller.
dpaanlka said:
Do you mean a Sawtooth, the original AGP Graphics Mac?
Doesn't matter, as that one is an 2x AGP box, which means that graphics card linked above should work fine. HOWEVER, your bus is MASSIVELY slow in a Swatooth, so you'd never get the performance out of that card that would warrant the $. IMO, a smaller (cheaper) card would work just fine.
yellow said:
I already have one. I always hear about people flashing PC cards. I was hoping someone had flashed one of the better nVidia or ATI X series cards.
iGary said:
Yes, from Sonnet. Its a very fast system. I just want to know if it could be even faster in regards to video performance.
dpaanlka said:
Lord Blackadder here flashed a pretty high-end NVIDIA card for his G4...lemme do a search.
yellow said:
I find that even with the bus speed, my 1.8ghz more that ass-kicks my 1.5ghz Albook in every single way... no matter what becnhmark app I run or what FCP render situation I time, it's faster. Bus speed is a factor yes, but not a huge factor.
After further pondering, I want to rephrase my previous statement.
Obviously with a 133mhz system bus and 4x AGP slot, video and processor performance will never be at G5 levels. But a 7800GS on a 133mhz bus will still be faster than a 9800 on a 133mhz bus.
Obviously with a 133mhz system bus and 4x AGP slot, video and processor performance will never be at G5 levels. But a 7800GS on a 133mhz bus will still be faster than a 9800 on a 133mhz bus.
