Jaguar and the end of the silent Cube

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thisbechuck

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One thing I realized while reading over the description of "Quartz Extreme" is that my trustworthy G4 cube as I know it will have to change. When the cube was first sold, it was built in two models, 500 MHz with and ATI Radeon video card, and the 450 MHz with a standard card (not quite sure what it is) anyways, I opted for the 500 MHz, but to my dismay, the noise of the fan of the Radeon card canceled out the beautiful silence of the cube's operation (one of the only reasons I selected it). So in around one month, my grandfather decided to buy the 450 MHz version so I switched the video cards. My Cube has been working fine, but now I realize that if I want to take advantage of "Quartz Extreme" I will have to revert back to the (comparatively) loud Radeon card, in essence destroying the silence of the cube. -sigh- oh well... i suppose it's a good reason to convince my parents to buy me one of those sick new DP g4's.
 
Is the Radeon really that noisy? I think I might try to get an Apple OEM GeForce 2 MX card and hack it into the cube (like was demonstrated on XLR8yourmac.com a while ago, or on cube-zone.com).

I feel your pain, though. I want to use Quartz Extreme, but only have the vanilla Rage Pro 128 card that came with the 450 MHz cube. :( So I'll have to upgrade somehow to something that has 32 megs of VRAM. (Or maybe I could just buy that iMac. :) )
 
I also have to get a Geforce MX to hack into my Cube :-(

Where can you get them from these days? Haven't seen one on ebay for a while.

Will a Geforce MX be enough for Quarts Extreme?
 
Tryed Jaguar on my iBook 600.... WORK as a charm .....you should be set even WITHOUT a new videocard..
 
is there a retailer that sells video cards with the ADC connector? i have never seen those for sale, which makes it impossible for me to upgrade my video card, since i have an ADC flat panel monitor.

the apple online store doesn t seem to sell parts at all, nor any other vendor... does anyone know if these can be bought?
 
well i just discovered that you can buy the mac version of the ATI radeon card. so i guess it is only the nVidia cards that you can t buy?

or am i wrong? is there a store which sells the ADC nVidia GPUs?
 
upon closer inspection, i was wrong. the cards that ATI sells direct have DVI ports, not ADC ports. Hrrmm...
 
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