Hi all,
I know the title sounds nuts, but that's what I am thinking of:
The slot on the logic board that the Cube's AGP/Power daughter board plugs into looks exactly like a PCI slot. But is it a PCI slot? The
If it were a PCI slot, would it be possible to use one of those infamous PCI -> PCIe adapter cards and then use a PCIe graphics card inside the Cube?
I am fully aware that -- if it works at all -- the PCI/AGP bus doesn't get any faster. But the PCIe GPUs internals, memory etc. are way faster than any PCI graphics card. And since the very last G5 PowerMacs were equipped with PCIe slots, MacOS X *should* support some (old) PCIe graphics cards, shouldn't it?
This is the G4s AGP/Power daughter board as you all know it:
And this is one of the PCI -> PCIe adapter cards (bottom PCI, top PCIe):
What do you guys think?
Cheers
CK
I know the title sounds nuts, but that's what I am thinking of:
The slot on the logic board that the Cube's AGP/Power daughter board plugs into looks exactly like a PCI slot. But is it a PCI slot? The
If it were a PCI slot, would it be possible to use one of those infamous PCI -> PCIe adapter cards and then use a PCIe graphics card inside the Cube?
I am fully aware that -- if it works at all -- the PCI/AGP bus doesn't get any faster. But the PCIe GPUs internals, memory etc. are way faster than any PCI graphics card. And since the very last G5 PowerMacs were equipped with PCIe slots, MacOS X *should* support some (old) PCIe graphics cards, shouldn't it?
This is the G4s AGP/Power daughter board as you all know it:
And this is one of the PCI -> PCIe adapter cards (bottom PCI, top PCIe):
What do you guys think?
Cheers
CK