>I am hoping to make the transition soon from a G3 upgraded 7600 to a
>Beige G3 minitower I got at a local auction. I expect to tweak a lot
>of things on it to improve my functionality in OS 9 and to get OS X
>operable as an interim solution on my desktop machine until I can get
>a newer Mac. My beige G3 minitower is technically a Macintosh G3
>Server. It is the REv. 1 version of the motherboard. It has had a 500
>mhz chip upgrade put in it, the stock drives for now (a 24x IDE
>CD-ROM and a 4.5 gig SCSI) and has 384 megs of RAM. It came with all
>three PCI slots filled - with an Apple SCSI card in slot A1, an ATTO
>Express SCSI PCI Pro in slot B1 and a faster ethernet PCi card in
>slot C1.
>
>In this particular post I want to focus the discussion on my options
>for video in this machine. The Apple System Profiler says it has 6
>megs of VRAM. The card/chip is a Mach 64 in slot F1.
>
>
>ISSUES:
>First, where is slot F1? Is this an upgradeable slot like the PCI
>slots? The video connection seems to be wired into the motherboard
>but there is a slot next to the three RAM slots I couldn't figure out
>the purpose for.
>
>Second, what video options will work for this machine? If nothing
>else I will probably move my VooDoo 3 2000 card from the 7600 to the
>Beige G3 when I am ready to make the transition. I would need to free
>up a PCI slot. If I wanted to spring for another one I could get the
>32 meg Radeon PCI card or the 64 meg Radeon card. Anything else I
>should be considering?
>
>Finally, I would be glad for any general suggestions or warnings as I
>work through this issue.
As far as I know the G3 minitowers just had 6 vram dimm slots which
took 1 meg sgram each so a PCI Radeon of whatever nature would be a good
upgrade - the faster Radeons like the 7500/8500/9000+ are AGP slot type
so unsuitable. The choice is a Radeon Mac Edition or a Radeon 7000 - both
pci - plenty of flashed from PC cards about with dual drive and s-vid out.
Cheers
Pete
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