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Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-11-18 19:46:07
Since I am not using the second G3 I got, would installing the video card into one of my G4's PCI slots speed up graphics processing time?
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Posted by: ~Coxy on 2008-11-18 23:39:32
Nope! It would let you use extra screens, though.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-11-19 06:14:09
PCI is a slower bus than AGP, and shared. The otherwise-same card in an AGP version will always be faster than it's PCI cousin. But if your PCI card is a lot better than your AGP card, maybe.
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Posted by: somorastik on 2009-01-02 04:42:00
If you have an AGP slot, try to buy a used (or new) PC AGB card and flash it.
Several sites contain information:
http://www.ehmac.ca/anything-mac/27249-flashing-vga-cards-mac.html
http://www.cybercoment.com/macgeforce.htm
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/33/28635-flashing-geforce-video-card-mac.html
http://xenomorph.net/apple/flash-pc-video-cards-for-use-in-a-mac/
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/6/3/234045/4651
Just use google, the second link is good.
G4 cube users flash graphic cards for their machines.
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Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2009-01-02 10:54:30
Okay, ~Coxy was the only person that seemed to know what I was trying to do. I wondered if there was some mode where you coul use a spare video card as a Dual-Processor/vRAM.
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Posted by: wood_e on 2009-01-02 11:24:21
^ nope
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Posted by: somorastik on 2009-01-02 11:39:33
Of course not!
Sell the extra card you have and buy a powerful PC card and flash it.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-02 11:54:56
^^
So like a brand new one off the shelf?
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Posted by: somorastik on 2009-01-02 12:29:45
Powerful comparing to the ones in the G4. Sorry 🙂
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-02 12:42:05
I have dual video cards in my dual processor G4. It works great, the only issue is sometimes after you wake it the second screen turns the mouse blue, after something changes it to either the beachball or watch(itunes still uses this) its fine.
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