On 15/12/2012 16:32, "Richard Gerome" <onecoolka...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I bought that 9800 for a friend's G4 466mhz Tower and never used it because I
> couldn't flash the rom... I maxed the ram, put in a 250G 7200rpm HD (only
> reads 128G) and a new DVD super drive and installed Tiger. They had this 23"
> monitor for it and I just left the orig video card in it. I had to boot it up
> 3 or 4 times till the res was all the way up to it's max..? This was about 2
> yrs ago and it's still working pretty good with no problems... So this left me
> wondering why so many put this 9800 in them??? Maybe someone here can tell me
> why they even use this 9800 card? When I go back to NC to visit them I'm going
> to download Leopard on it for them...
It's because the 9800 pro was just about the fastest 4x agp card you
could get for a G4 - and the easiest to convert from pc to mac with little
or no problems and get all the ports working fully. Nvidia and other cards
had conversion problems - no s-vid, no dvi etc but the 9800 worked 100% if
flashed correctly. I flashed many cards from pc to mac but the only one I
know of which is easier than the 9800 is the 8500 - much slower than the
9800, half the ram at 64 MB (or a quarter if you get a 9800 with 256) and
much slower tsop ram compared to the ball grid array ram on the 9800 - only
snag was the disabling of the pins 3 and 11 as Apple had commandeered them
for ADC connections.
<http://themacelite.wikidot.com/flasher-s-buying-guide-9800>
Pete
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