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| Click here to select a new forum. | | G4 AGP Graphics | Posted by: beachycove on 2010-01-31 16:14:17
Via a local kijiji seller: a 400MHz G4 AGP Graphics with 1GB RAM and a nice, quiet 20GB hard drive. It was filthy (smoker and dust) so it was disassembled and washed and is drying out as I write.
One welcome bit is that it also had a GeForce 4MX AGP card installed, which will make a nice upgrade for my G4 Cube. The tower itself is destined for a Drupal project, or if that proves too much of a stretch, WordPress.
Will an AGP Mac run without an AGP card but with PCI video instead?
| Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-01-31 16:32:29
I've never dealt with an AGP Mac before, but I know for a fact that a PC with an AGP slot will quite happily run with only a PCI video card, so I can't see how a Mac would be any different.
| Posted by: oneboyarmy on 2010-01-31 16:51:34
My Quicksilver is currently using a PCI card since it gave up its AGP GeForce2 MX for my Cube. 🙂
(16MB Rage, but that machine is in server duty and only used over screen sharing, but it works well!)
| Posted by: beachycove on 2010-02-06 14:44:02
The G4 tower has just been turned on after being cleaned up and allowed to dry out (necessary as the cleaning included a hosing of the power supply, which surely emitted enough nicotine and tar to stun an elephant — why do people do this to their lungs?).
This is just to confirm that it works perfectly without the AGP card installed and with only PCI graphics.
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