On 9/4/06 7:40 PM, "Liam Proven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A month or so back, I bought myself a Radeon 7000 from ReTek on eBay. > They're in America, I'm in London. It never came & they didn't answer > my emails. > > Happily, Paypal refunded the money. That's good! > Since then, I lost out on several of them in the UK, but at the end of > last week, I got one locally for £23.99. Tonight I cycled over to get > it. > > It went in with no hassle whatsoever, I now have the Radeon working > and with the aid of the PCI Extreme hack, I have a 2,304x870 pixel, > TrueColour, Quartz Extreme-accelerated dual-head desktop. I am > absolutely chuffed. The machine goes like stink now! > > (I do have a 1GHz G3 in my B&W for now, mind.) > > PCI Extreme 3.1 works perfectly on Tiger 10.4.7, no hitches at all. > Apple System Profiler says that QE is enabled and functional on both > heads and the GUI is /considerably/ more responsive than it was when > driven by my 2 old Rage128 cards - and they were a great deal better > than my old Voodoo5 or onboard RagePro in my Beige. > > This really is a worthwhile upgrade for an otherwise-well-specced PCI > Mac. I am delighted. Couldn't have been easier, either. That's good to know. I have a Radeon 9200 in a B&W G3 1.1 GHz and never tried the PCI Extreme hack as I heard that it *sometimes* slowed down the UI. I have no other cards in the PCI slots so there is no bandwidth sharing to slow it down but I guess I was just put off by some bad reports. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
