Radeon X800XL in PowerMac G4 Sawtooth AGP

[EmeraldXB]

A Few Months ago I rescued a AGP Sawtooth G4 from the side of the road near where I live. Found it with a 1.5Ghz CPU Upgrade Card and 1GB of Ram. Unfortunately the GPU is the original rage 128 that it came with from the factory. I’m wanting to do a GPU upgrade on it but am not willing to pay the prices that are being charged for them. My friend has a Diamond Viper X800XL that he’s willing to give me. My question is does anyone know if it possible to mac flash this card for EFI support?

 

[chriscarruthers]

Looks like you might be out of luck with a Sawtooth re: X800s in general (not sure about the Viper X800XL specifically): http://themacelite.wikidot.com/compatibility

 

[herd]

Do you have a picture of the card? It is probably keyed for 4x/8x. I think the 9800 is typically the fastest card for the AGP, but some of these are also 4x/8x. I think I read where someone added a notch and it worked fine (under dos).

 

[EmeraldXB]

Looks like you might be out of luck with a Sawtooth re: X800s in general (not sure about the Viper X800XL specifically): http://themacelite.wikidot.com/compatibility

Yeah It Seems that isn’t gonna work. He also has a 9600 SE but that ain’t gonna work either. Guess I’m gonna have to keep an eye out for a 9800 as that seems to be my best bet.

 

[EmeraldXB]

Do you have a picture of the card? It is probably keyed for 4x/8x. I think the 9800 is typically the fastest card for the AGP, but some of these are also 4x/8x. I think I read where someone added a notch and it worked fine (under dos).

If you look up Diamond Viper Radeon x800XL AGP you will see what it looks like though from my research it seems the 9800 is gonna be the best I can run.