Agp 2x?

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Ok I have looked everywhere and I cant find it. Now that apple is going for quartz extreme I want to know if it will work on my machine. I have the G4 500 AGP graphics with a mac edition AGP radion. the card is 2x but does the computer have 2x support?
 
Yes, you're all set with the Radeon. The AGP slots in the G4s started at 2x and are now 4x.

No, me on the other hand... I have to go buy a new video card soon so I can have Quartz Extreme :D
 
At least you can. I have an iMac with one of the old RAGE128VR's or whatever, so I'm screwed since I can't upgrade either.

-the valrus
 
According to Apple-history.com, my PowerBook G4 500 has...

VRAM: 8 MB (ATI RAGE 128 Mobility 2x AGP)

and Apple's web page says it needs one of these....

*nVidia: GeForce2MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 Ti, GeForce4 or GeForce4MX. ATI: any AGP Radeon card. 32MB VRAM recommended for optimum performance.

So does that mean that because I have AGP, my PowerBook is supported? I find the naming conventions of graphics chips confusing...
 
Originally posted by adambyte
According to Apple-history.com, my PowerBook G4 500 has...

VRAM: 8 MB (ATI RAGE 128 Mobility 2x AGP)

and Apple's web page says it needs one of these....

*nVidia: GeForce2MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 Ti, GeForce4 or GeForce4MX. ATI: any AGP Radeon card. 32MB VRAM recommended for optimum performance.

So does that mean that because I have AGP, my PowerBook is supported? I find the naming conventions of graphics chips confusing...
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Nope, you're not supported.

Neither am I. I spent all this money trying to squeeze some more life out of my G4/400 PCI machine, and, even though I have a 32MB Radeon card in my machine, I'm out of luck because it's PCI.

What I'm interested to see is when 10.2 finally comes out, what would happen on an AGP Radeon/NVidia machine with a second video card in it? Would dragging a window from the AGP monitor to the PCI monitor suddenly slow down? Seeing as how Quartz Extreme is only supported through AGP... Hehe... THAT should be interesting!
 
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