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Posted by: Rodus on 2008-09-17 10:21:11
For my Sawtooth. I've been running the 128 pro in it since I swapped the Radeon into my 9500 and it's not very good under Tiger and the benchmarks for the Nvidia are pretty good (for an old, cheap card).
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Posted by: coius on 2008-09-17 11:17:52
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?
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Posted by: Rodus on 2008-09-17 11:45:49
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.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2008-09-17 12:08:31
ridicilous cheap price
im sure it wil work fine
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Posted by: jkoci on 2008-09-17 16:37:00
I use one in my Sawtooth and it works well with Panther.
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Posted by: Rodus on 2008-09-20 11:50:16
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.
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