Dawes Giro 300 - Road Bike for Boys, Girls, or small adults.
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07 Apr, 2009
Innovision GeForce 6800 GT. Cool for Macs
As the owner of an older Mac, a 1.6GHz dual G4, I'm constantly on the lookout for ways to 'pimp my ride'. It's a work-horse machine (my only PowerPC Mac) and it gets used to verify that the software I write works correctly on that architecture. That doesn't mean, however, that I don't bother upgrading it. I'm a geek - I can't help myself and this is its third graphics upgrade…
I chose the 6800GT because it is the most powerful graphics card which the G4 PowerMac can support. I chose the PC version because I'm too much of a cheapskate to pay a premium for a custom Mac product. My cheapness did mean that I needed to put a little extra legwork in order to make the card work - but, for geeks, this is all part of the fun.
The legwork wasn't too hard. I pulled the Geforce 2MX card from my venerable Dell XPS tower, and plugged the GeForce 6800 GT card in. Having booted from an MS-DOS floppy, I used NVFlash to wipe the PC ROM from the card and install a Mac ROM instead. Finally, after shutting the Dell down, I whipped the card out, disabled two of the pins (the G4 AGP slot is a slight oddity) and plugged it firmly into the PowerMac. Hey Presto! Core Image is now blazing fast, at least by G4 standards, and my old Mac feels somewhat newer.
So what's it like to use? Well, my old G4 now plays Civilization IV rapidly with nearly all of the graphic options turned on. Colin McRae rally is fast and fluid. And Ford Racing flies by. Pixelmator churns out images with no troubles at all, and my hacked copy of iMovie 09 (hacked so that it runs on the G4) seems to be able to render transitions in real time.
I have no regrets about this purchase. It's flawless. If you have an old G4, upgrade the memory first, the CPU second - and then slap a GeForce 6800 GT into it. You won't regret it, I promise.