Considering that the developer of PCI Extreme warns very strongly that users of 10.4.3 and above should NOT use his program at all costs, maybe that piece of advice was a little..... premature... y/n?
On Apr 28, 1:00 pm, Kris Tilford <ktilfo...@cox.net> wrote: > On Apr 28, 2009, at 2:27 PM, insightinmind wrote: > > > re there any special installation procedures for an ATI Radeon > > 9200ME in a Yikes!? > > Make sure the video card is in the special video PCI slot. > > Enable Quartz Extreme using PCI Extreme 3.1 from MacUpdate: > <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8979/pci-extreme%21> > > There are a few faster PCI cards available if you think you're just on > the cusp. The flashed PC Radeon 9100 (=Mac Radeon 8500PCI) has dual > rendering pipelines running at 275MHz (your 9200 runs at 200 MHz). > Sometimes smooth video is dependent upon where the file is located on > the HD. A slow HD with the file on a slow sector will play bad, but > the same file on a fast sector will play fine. I've sometimes made a > special partition of the fastest (outermost) sectors to use as a video > playback partition. A striped RAID 0 pair of matched 7,200 RPM HDs > would likely eliminate the HD as the culprit for slow video playback. > > If you're using Tiger 10.4.11 there's an nVidia card that supports > CoreGraphics, albeit slowly: > <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/Mac_PCI_FX5200/mac_PCI_FX5200.html> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
