b/w video card

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b/w video card

what is the best video card that you can put in a b/w g3 400?? os 10.2.8 894 mb ram, planning on a processor upgrade
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chris

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Hmm...

At the moment, a ATI Radeon 9200 PCI Mac Edition.

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Yup, get a 1GHz G3 750GX upgr

Yup, get a 1GHz G3 750GX upgrade and a radeon 9200 PCI and you will have a zippy little machine. Dont get the 1GHz G4 unless you really need a G4, as it declocks your Bus to 66Mhz.

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G3 vs G4

There are many apps optimized for the G4, you might consider the G4 over the G3.

You might save $100+ now, but I think it's money well spent to enjoy the apps that simply won't run on a G3, no matter how fast... Look to the future. My G3 550 runs most apps fine, but all of the multimedia apps suffer, some won't run at all.

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Declock?

as it declocks your Bus to 66Mhz.

It does? Do all the G4 upgrades do this? Did I waste my time and money getting a B&W motherboard to move the Daystar 450 G4 out of my beige?

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Hmm...

Only the newer Sonnet 600MHz+ G4s downclock the bus to 66MHz.

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