Graphic card for AGP GRAPHIC

[recorn]

Hi everyone!!!!!!

I'm new here and and from Malaysia, i would like to ask if anybody sell the graphic card for AGP Graphic? I'm using 450 MHz upgrade to Sonnet 1.8 ghz, 1GB of Ram and now looking for AGP Graphic Card 2X/4X/8X that support my mac,

one more question I'm trying to make this MAC run faster for Video Editing, it's is possible?

thanks

[aquamac]

Hi Recorn & welcome,

You are going to need a 2x AGP card for this mac which limits you a bit to either a 9800 Mac edition or a 2x compatible PC edition 9800 flashed to mac or a Nvidia 6200 PC card flashed to mac. The 6200 PC cards are fairly, readily available I believe at low cost, I take it you have a Rage 128 at the moment.

I think Reddrag0n may have some experience of the 6200.

[ritalin]

The ATI 9800 will be faster than the Nvidia 6200 although its an older design.

[recorn]

thanks for explanation, how about ati radeon 9700 its is fast enough? so if i want to buy 9800 where can i find it? it's hard to find in malaysia, any suggestion?

[recorn]

yes you are correct aquamac, i'm using Rage 128 at the moment, if i find the ATI RADEON 9800 how i want to flashed it, any sugesstion? i try to upload the photo of ATI RADEON 9700 for preview but i dont no how to upload it to this forum

thanks

[aquamac]

This is the sort of card you need:

Click Here

Probably only available from ebay now. 9700 is fine too, but difficult to find. Genuine mac card has ADC but that port will not work in a sawtooth.

To show pictures in this forum, they need to be hosted on the web. You need to put in front of them, then the same after the link, but put a / in the brackets in front of the u.

[recorn]

right now i waiting the ATI 9700 to arrive hopefully

one question it's is possible to modified my Swatooth to do Video Editing Workstation? any Suggestion?any upgrade requirement

thanks

[aquamac]

You may want to consider one of these and a couple of Sata drives set up as a Raid Stripe. I used this setup on a sawtooth for some time and it actually made quite a difference.

[reddrag0n]

Thanks Steve... lol.

Anyways, the only way a 6200 would work in a Sawtooth is if it's a Rev 2 board that you have. Capable of handleing dual CPU. Mine did work until the mobo died and i had to get a Rev 1 mobo. Then the video card freaked. So now i have my 1.4 GHz (thanks again Steve ) and a PCI 5200 in my Sawtooth right now. If you can get the faster 6200 with the fan attached, it's rated faster than the one without the fan. I know someone on eBay sells them (someone from Hong Kong) and they might work. But like i said, you need a Rev 2 board in order for it to work right. If you don't, then the ATI 9800 would be a better solution. Also remember that the video card you do get would have to be a 2X AGP compliant. I know alot of cards out there are only 4X and 8X compliant only.
So do some research and see what you can come up with.

Oh, and if you want this to be a powerhouse for video, bump the ram up to 2 gig. The Sawtooths and Gigabit Ethernets can handle it. Just don't use OS 9. It only see's 1.5 gig of it.

[recorn]

thanks a lot guys, right now i have GF4 TI 4400 128 Gainward AGP Graphic Card, can i Flashed it? do u think it will work on G4 Swatooth?this GF4 TI 4400 is from my dead PC, i try it last night to my MAC but did not work.

thanks

[reddrag0n]

it might be able to be flashed, you would have to search the macelite.com in order to see what they have done. I would say strangedogs, but they seem to have relocated to the macelite.

[recorn]

i already download the {nv_hack_macswitch_ti4400_1105_agp_64k.rom.zip} from macelite.com, but i don't now how to do it, can u guide me?

thanks

[reddrag0n]

sure, just let me switch back to my main system here

[reddrag0n]

is your card 8X compliant? if so, we will need to tape some pins off.

[recorn]

what do u mean about 8X compliant? (Sorry i don't no much about this) this card can fit to my G4 but cannot run. but i buy this Gainward GF4 TI4400 128 MB on June 2002, it support DVI,VGA and S-Video

thanks