LF: Video Card for PowerMac G4 466MHz

[jbenwell]

Hi all,

I have a question and a LF request ---

Assuming you manage to shoe-horn Leopard onto a PowerMac G4 466MHz, does anyone happen to know whether an AGP Radeon 7000 w/ 32MB VRAM is sufficient to run Front Row? (I am aware that the Rage card that comes with the machine doesn't work.)

And if so, does anyone have one for sale for $50-$60?

Thanks,
Jason

[MikeB]

Hi,

Unfortunately I do not have one, but I think Front Row would use CoreImage like mad and since it's slowest card for ATi was somethink like a 9000 I do not think that it would work although it runs on an iBook G4 (highly modified version). I say it would be worth a shot, even if it doesn't work your mac is worth more... (assuming you keep the original card with it)

Good Luck with your attempts, I am trying to squeeze tiger onto my poor 400Mhz G4 (I think it hates me now)

Mike

[mooky]

Hi all,

I have a question and a LF request ---

Assuming you manage to shoe-horn Leopard onto a PowerMac G4 466MHz, does anyone happen to know whether an AGP Radeon 7000 w/ 32MB VRAM is sufficient to run Front Row? (I am aware that the Rage card that comes with the machine doesn't work.)

And if so, does anyone have one for sale for $50-$60?

Thanks,
Jason

Hi! I upgraded the graphics in my G4 Cube 450... check out the flashing sites (seek the Unusual Canines...) on how to convert a cheap PC AGP video card to Mac format. I updated a BFG GeForce card to Mac, works excellent in the cube (fanless) and enables all the CoreImage and 3D stuff...
BTW, i run Leo Server on the stock cube with no problems, i run headless however... the GUI is not stellar on this old hardware. Check out the Leopard Assist application for installing on sub-867MHz G4s..
Good hunting!

[jbenwell]

Thanks to all for your replies. I'll let you know how things work out.

Jason