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Geforce 2 MX
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coius
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Sweet! how much did it run you?
When I got my Sawtooth from MacDan, i had a Geforce4 MX off of eBay before the tower came. It has 64MB RAM. Now I know it's not the same, but it is pretty useful, despite being a GeForce 440 itself.
Is there any lag with the windows, since it's being a card of that age?
When I got my Sawtooth from MacDan, i had a Geforce4 MX off of eBay before the tower came. It has 64MB RAM. Now I know it's not the same, but it is pretty useful, despite being a GeForce 440 itself.
Is there any lag with the windows, since it's being a card of that age?
Rodus
Well-known member
I haven't recieved it yet, it was an ebay buy and cost me £7 (£2 more then my Performa 6400 cost me!). I wanted something reasonable for my old G4 450 that didn't break the bank and this fitted the bill. Radeon 7000's were all going for around £25 which is crazy and the Nvidia unlike the 7000 supports hardware T & L and has 2 pixel pipelines to the 7000's one.
Considering my sisters G4 400 with a Radeon 7000 has very good window animation, I expect this to be even better.
Considering my sisters G4 400 with a Radeon 7000 has very good window animation, I expect this to be even better.
Rodus
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It's arrived and I'm pretty impressed. I've actually taken OS X off and gone back to System 9 for a decent retro gaming system:
Sawtooth G4 450 (mobo transplanted into a B&W case)
640 MB RAM
Geforce2 MX
It's very fast under 9! I did have some problems installing the downloaded Nvidia drivers. They point blank wouldn't installl and I remember reading that they originally only came on the system disc for the G4's with the cards pre-installed. A couple of minutes with Tome Viewer and all was good.
As a side note, I never cease to be surprised by the fps difference in 3D games on same speed G3's vs G4's. The fpu performance is so much better on the G4.
Sawtooth G4 450 (mobo transplanted into a B&W case)
640 MB RAM
Geforce2 MX
It's very fast under 9! I did have some problems installing the downloaded Nvidia drivers. They point blank wouldn't installl and I remember reading that they originally only came on the system disc for the G4's with the cards pre-installed. A couple of minutes with Tome Viewer and all was good.
As a side note, I never cease to be surprised by the fps difference in 3D games on same speed G3's vs G4's. The fpu performance is so much better on the G4.
