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Best Quicksilver Graphics Card?
- Thread starter LaPorta
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If you are going with OS X, you can look at beefier cards
the following are quite nice if you need an ADC Port:
- Radeon 9000 Pro from a MDD (low performance, but accelerated on OS 9)
- Radeon 9600 Pro or XT from a G5 (CTO option, more rare)
- Radeon X800 XT (CTO option, rare as well)
Without ADC, a 9800 Pro AGP is easier to find.
... and 6600LE are PCI Express only so not compatible IIRC
The FX 5200 Ultra is on the low end and does not perform well.
the following are quite nice if you need an ADC Port:
- Radeon 9000 Pro from a MDD (low performance, but accelerated on OS 9)
- Radeon 9600 Pro or XT from a G5 (CTO option, more rare)
- Radeon X800 XT (CTO option, rare as well)
Without ADC, a 9800 Pro AGP is easier to find.
... and 6600LE are PCI Express only so not compatible IIRC
The FX 5200 Ultra is on the low end and does not perform well.
95% sure yours ended up with a GeForce 2 in it
The Radeon 9000 Pro is going to be the most commonly available G4-ADC 9/X accelerated card.
There's also the Geforce4 Ti4600 which has G4-ADC, very quick acceleration in 9, but only emulates Quartz Extreme in OSX (so isn't a great choice there despite strong numbers.) It's also noted to have a noisy VGA output; DVI(ADC) is fine though.
The MDD series will also have had the Radeon 9700 Pro as an option which is significantly faster, retains G4-ADC, but only accelerates in OS X.
Edit: I've also heard from multiple IT offices that running displays off the ADC port contributes to PSU failures, especially when machines are left in sleep mode overnight. I run mine off of ADC too (too streamlined not to,) but I'd switch to an external brick if I were going to run one of my G4s heavily.
There's also the Geforce4 Ti4600 which has G4-ADC, very quick acceleration in 9, but only emulates Quartz Extreme in OSX (so isn't a great choice there despite strong numbers.) It's also noted to have a noisy VGA output; DVI(ADC) is fine though.
The MDD series will also have had the Radeon 9700 Pro as an option which is significantly faster, retains G4-ADC, but only accelerates in OS X.
Edit: I've also heard from multiple IT offices that running displays off the ADC port contributes to PSU failures, especially when machines are left in sleep mode overnight. I run mine off of ADC too (too streamlined not to,) but I'd switch to an external brick if I were going to run one of my G4s heavily.
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That ADC ps failure tip is very useful to hear about.
So, to confirm, t's a GeForce 2MX with 32 MB VRAM that is in there currently. That is what I am looking to do better than.
Your warning is well taken. The good thing is, none of my machines see "heavy" use. The heaviest use it will get is maybe playing an hour of a game, that's it.
Your warning is well taken. The good thing is, none of my machines see "heavy" use. The heaviest use it will get is maybe playing an hour of a game, that's it.
PS will fail anyway. One I am working on now has a small 50V capacitor that failed and I wonder if it was for the 24V ADC line output.
+ perfectly capable for Quake II and Unreal engine games of that era. After that, PPC OS X games that needed faster GPUs is pretty limited and not well optimised (Doom 3, Halo etc)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/194394912399?hash=item2d42d6f68f
DVI on top, ADC on the bottom. there are 8 RAM chips so if you look the chips up online you can figure out the RAM. I think they are 64MB
Alternatively, get a M8661LL/B adapter and run it off a DVI equipped card like the 9700 or 9800. I used one of those for a few years in my old G4 Digital Audio after the original nVidia card took a dump in 2009. Moved it over to my MDD machine in 2012 for a while, until I got annoyed with the howling cooling fan, even after I'd switched to a single 1GHz G4 processor from the dual G4 processors it used to run. At that point, reassembled the G4 DA and used that in tandem with the old Dell laptop before I got my original A1181 in 2013.
