B&W G3 w/ Surprise

[sambapati87]

I saw an ad for a B&W minitower on Freecycle today and snapped it up:

300mhz G3

256mb RAM (I think)

CD-ROM

ZIP

HD (unknown)

...and a Radeon 7000, with DVI, VGA, and S-Video.

The drive to pick it up was worth the card alone, as my project blue and white OS 9 gaming rig still has a Rage 128. I plan on moving this card and whatever RAM/etc. I can into my 450mhz beast, then adding a nice LCD when I get some $$ and going to town.

 

[Unknown_K]

Flashed PC or a real Mac edition? Both of my B&W's have Mac Radeon cards, a 7000 and the version before they came out with the 7000 numbers (think it has T&L). Nice cards and great in OS 9.x and run OSX fairly well (10.3.x). Then again I don't game on either systems so I don't know how well they do games.

 

[sambapati87]

I have no idea, but since it came from a school (I think), I would assume a real mac edition.

 

[Unknown_K]

They would have DVI for sure on the mac cards.

 

[MacJunky]

a 7000 and the version before they came out with the 7000 numbers (think it has T&L).

Original Radeon with no numbers later renamed 7200 in the PC world, and yes, it does(or at least should) have hardware transform and lighting.

 

[Hrududu]

Thats always fun to find something like that. I would like to get a Radeon card for my smurftower, but they just aren't cheap enough yet. Just about anything is better than that horrifying 16mb Rage128 they came with. It may have been state of the art running 8.5 back in 99, but without having that quartz support in OSX it's pretty much vital to get as much VRAM and newer chipset on what is otherwise a pretty solid Mac.

 

[Unknown_K]

I would think a G4 tower with AGP would be a better OSX machine, leaving the B&W to be a super fast OS9 machine. A rage128 isn't that bad on a B&W in the 66mhz slot either (I have a few that have been relegated to PCI era machines).

PCI Radeon Mac editions are only going to get so cheap because few were made and people still want them (secondary monitor for G4's for example, or for PCI macs). Take a look at 3dfx voodoo 5500 PCI cards, they cost way too much even today.

 

[sambapati87]

It is a Mac edition card. I have a Sawtooth G4 with the same card that runs Leopard as my server. Hopefully this will be come my OS9 gaming machine (if I can find a cheap LCD).