Hi All,
I'm slightly new to this list, I've been lurking for a month or so. I
recently picked up a PowerMac G4 (PCI video) 350Mhz, which I've been
working on upgrading.
I've added a DVD-RW drive, and two 80gig HDs which I've configured in
a stripping raid. I've upgraded the ram to 448 megs, I also added a
scsi controller and a zip drive. I plan to add a Video capture card
and use the machine as a type of media server. It still has the
original 16meg RAGE 128 video card, it plays DVDs without any problem,
but playing high quality mpeg2 or AVI files causes frames to be lost.
Which detracts a lot from the experience.
What sort of a problem am I looking at here? If I wanted to eliminate
the frame dropping problem, what would be my next best upgrade step?
I've been looking at better video cards, the best that I think there is
the ATI radeon 9200 w/ 128 megs of ram. It doesn't have any video
capture abilities, so I'd still need to get that separately. I've also
been looking at some of the processor upgrade options. I could bump it
up to 500, 700, 800 or 1000 Mhz. I could also increase the ram. It's
running Mac OS X 10.3.9.
If I get the radeon video card, would I be able to use the Rage Pro
card at the same time as the radeon for dual monitor/extended desktop?
Cheers,
Greg.
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