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G4 Sawtooth videocard, pt.2
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<blockquote data-quote="Morgan19" data-source="post: 27916" data-attributes="member: 4243"><p>Me too... That's the aggravating part about Mac videocards which I'm now becoming aware of. It seems that 1) there's only one or two to choose from and 2) the price for a Mac videocard compared to a comparable PC card is often twice as much. Hmmph.</p><p></p><p>Before knowing that, I would've liked something in the $50 - $100 range, which is quite possible on a PC, but now it looks like it'll have to be the <$150 range instead since I can only seem to find the Radeon 7000 and 9000 cards. I understand there are GeForceMX cards for Macs, but I can't find any OEM or separate cards being sold.</p><p></p><p>I'm just not sure how much of a difference going from a 16mb card to the 32mb Radeon 7000 will make, although it would be DDR... Do you have an opinion as to how much of a "smoothness" performance increase the 7000 would make? The issue is that the old Rage'd been working fine with 9.2 but Panther's menus, windows, etc. seem jerky, so I'd like to get that smoothed out and, hence, a new videocard.</p><p></p><p>m19</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morgan19, post: 27916, member: 4243"] Me too... That's the aggravating part about Mac videocards which I'm now becoming aware of. It seems that 1) there's only one or two to choose from and 2) the price for a Mac videocard compared to a comparable PC card is often twice as much. Hmmph. Before knowing that, I would've liked something in the $50 - $100 range, which is quite possible on a PC, but now it looks like it'll have to be the <$150 range instead since I can only seem to find the Radeon 7000 and 9000 cards. I understand there are GeForceMX cards for Macs, but I can't find any OEM or separate cards being sold. I'm just not sure how much of a difference going from a 16mb card to the 32mb Radeon 7000 will make, although it would be DDR... Do you have an opinion as to how much of a "smoothness" performance increase the 7000 would make? The issue is that the old Rage'd been working fine with 9.2 but Panther's menus, windows, etc. seem jerky, so I'd like to get that smoothed out and, hence, a new videocard. m19 [/QUOTE]
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