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The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 30 Jan 2003 : 06:42:08 I was afraid to put this in the 68k conquests because it's PCI. I got it for $50+$8 shipping from a failed eBay auction where they asked too much and didn't get any bids. In case you didn't know, it's like the best PCI video card for the Mac. The Lightning Stalker Performa 631CD, 7.5.5 LC III, FPU, 20/80/enet, 7.5.5, Mail Server 6400/180 40/1.6G/512k L2/enet/video-in/TV 7600/120 '604/233, 80/1.2G & 1G/512k L2, 9.2.2 (Main Mac) Lady Smith Apples: Apple IIc 5.25" 2 Apple IIe
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 30 Jan 2003 : 06:45:38 sounds good... I've been thinking about getting a PCI video card fhr the trusty 7300... givemeself some more "legroom" per se Official 68k videographer
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 30 Jan 2003 : 06:49:00 I'd recommed the Proformance 3 based on what I've read about it. It's like the only affordable card that there's no PC version of and so it's specifically designed for the Mac. It's got QuickTime, QuickDraw, GX, and of late OpenGL acceleration. It's based on the nVidia Permedia 3 GPU which I've never heard of being used in a PC either. The only thing is it's not OS X compatible. In other words, it's not blessed by Steve Jobs, but I'd bet somebody could get it to work. Edited by - The Lightning Stalker on 30 Jan 2003 06:50:46
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 30 Jan 2003 : 17:16:22 I'm sorry but if you ask me the VooDoo 5500 is still king of the PCI video cards! Just like the Proformance getting it to work with X is pretty tough (although i think you can at least use it as a second card in X which you can't do with the ProFormance) It has 64MB of VRAM, double that of any other Mac PCI video card (unless there are some high end uber expensive ones I haven't heard of) It has DVI and VGA. Very simply nothing can touch a VooDoo 5 for UT based games. Of course it does have 2 major downers. 1, no DVD playback because driver development stopped early. 2, Open GL in pro 3D apps (not games) is unreliable again because driver development stopped. Of course if you use a wired for DVD card you don't have to worry about the DVD thing. Flashing a 3DFx card is stupidly easy and the PC ones are easy to get hold of. 3DFx deliberately made Mac and PC reference boards identical. IIRC you actually egt unaccelerated video from a PC card even before you flash it making it even easier as you don't need a PC or have to do it "blind" Perhaps I only like it so much because i own one, but hey?! -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube

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