Last question. I just browsed ebay and there are eight "9800 Pro"
cards available in 128mb and 256mb- and ALL say they are for the G4
and G5 with an AGP slot. They list it as completely compatible with
"any G5" and the G4 Quicksilver, MDD, DA, FW. They even say it will
fit in "8x and 4x AGP". Is it that these are not Mac Edition cards
but flashed PC cards? If the G5 and G4 have physically different
AGP slots, then how is that possible? No flashed pc card would ever
have an adc connection either - right?
On May 25, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
So is there a G4 9800 Pro and a G5 9800 Pro?
Yes. The '9800' refers to the chipset, not the bus configuration.
-- Or should I just leave the 128 Ti card and forget it?
When these 'reserved'
connections came into use with 8x agp apple had to redesign the agp
slot for
the G5 and called it agp pro - effectively killing any backward
compatibility for a G5 mac edition card in a G4 - it won't physically
fit.
And flashed 8x capable cards need the tape fix to isolate the adc
pins in
the agp slot.
I have never come across a 4x agp 9800 pro specifically for a G4
and it
probably doesn't exist as the apple spec lists the best card for a
MDD model
as the 128 Ti.
However the pc versions of the 9700/9800 pro and even the 9800
XT will
all physically fit and work comfortably in the G4 range when flashed and
taped. Though some care should be taken with card/slot compatibility
as the
universal 2x/4x/8x connector on the card has two notches - whereas
the later
4x/8x connector has only one and will not fit in the earlier G4
models with
2x agp like the cube and sawtooth etc.
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