[geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:45:38AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> What is a good *cost effective* graphics card upgrade - this is an
>> AGP system (2x!), and I am ignorant about video cards in general,
>> esp. on Macs - is there a low-cost card that will have a profound
>> impact on the performance od Tiger (OS/X 10.4)?
>
> Look for a GeForce 2MX.  There are ways to flash the PC version with
> the Mac firmware.  Here's a chart and firmware, etc:

Mine has a GeForce 2MX with 32M of RAM.  It will do Quartz Extreme, but
is not core-image capable.  It's on the list of things to upgrade.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org