g4 cube best video card
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have geforce 3 in both of mine, no vrm move
I'd add a suggestion missing in the cubeowner overview:
XFX GeForce 6200A 256MB AGP DVI/VGA/TV - Retail
I bought one of these in 2008. As this is long ago, I forgot, what I had to do to have it run in the Cube or I am not sure. But AFAIR: I had to flash the card and did not have to move the VRM.
The card does not have a fan.
I have no clue if this card is the best for a Cube, but fanless, accelerated in MacOSX10.4.11 and showing video in MacOS9 sounds good to me.
XFX GeForce 6200A 256MB AGP DVI/VGA/TV - Retail
I bought one of these in 2008. As this is long ago, I forgot, what I had to do to have it run in the Cube or I am not sure. But AFAIR: I had to flash the card and did not have to move the VRM.
The card does not have a fan.
I have no clue if this card is the best for a Cube, but fanless, accelerated in MacOSX10.4.11 and showing video in MacOS9 sounds good to me.
I concur, if you have the ability to flash it, the XFX 6200 ‘WANG’ is one of the best video card for the Cube. I have one in mine, with a custom made heatsink:
For Mac OS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X?
As others have stated, the GeForce 3 is the best original card and does not require a VRM move. The Nvidia 6200 "Wang" card performs even better, but it doesn't really fit the Cube and lacks ADC. The Wang card's DVI port presses up against the Cube's chassis (so the display cable usually doesn't seat properly) and there is no faceplate for it... You'd have to make one yourself.
Don't get me wrong but I love the R128pro 16MB in my G4-Cube. Some software is optimized for that card and runs beautiful with it. I use the original setup with the 15" ADC Monitor and the cube-speakers and black pro keyboard connected to the USB ports of the monitor. Think about that...everything is connected through this R128pro...insane! There are only two things I would love to get fixed...one is the multiboot issue with the SSD (only coldboot works, warmboot leads to a "?" because the machine can't find the bootdrive) and the other thing is that damn 3d-acc in YDL3...it is supposed to work (as shown on the archive.org page) but it does not. So if there is anyone here that uses the "normal" setup and has some experiences in Linux...I would love to hear from you how to fix this.
(I forgot MOS (MorphOS) is working on a cube but the monitor-issue is still not fixed, you have to force the "alternative-mode" to get a picture but every software you start on the desktop still drives the monitor to blackscreen)
My G4-cube is one of the best machines I have. It's a great machine, beautifull and with SSD SILENT!
(I forgot MOS (MorphOS) is working on a cube but the monitor-issue is still not fixed, you have to force the "alternative-mode" to get a picture but every software you start on the desktop still drives the monitor to blackscreen)
My G4-cube is one of the best machines I have. It's a great machine, beautifull and with SSD SILENT!
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