Which AGP card ????

[Bdegan]

my mobo uses an AGP style card.
Which AGP card will support G4??

error I m getting is "Error creating effect ShadowReceiveDirectionalWater"

[opjose]

I'm partial to the Nvidia's... say the 8600 GT's or the 8800 GT's.

[Sammy Yousef]

I'm partial to the Nvidia's... say the 8600 GT's or the 8800 GT's.

I only buy Nvidias myself. I thought the fastest Nvidia AGP card you could get was the 7900GS which is a DX9 card. Have things moved on since then?

My old machine runs a 6600GT, and that struggles with most graphics. When I first bought G3 this is where it lived and I had to drop the resolution and quality to get it flyable. Once I had a laptop with a decent graphics card (a 6800 at that time, I've moved to another laptop since) I found I could run at full res with most settings at max. However you have to be careful upgrading graphics if you have an old motherboard. Make sure your mobo supports the card and is 8x AGP.

There are rumours of ATI DX10 cards but I found nothing NVidia.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20070521054545.html

[Sammy Yousef]

Here you go. I dug this out from the forums. At one point KE did compatibility testing with a wide range of video cards. Unfortunately, this was early on in the product cycle for G3 (not even 3.5) so the information's well out of date. Even on that list things appear as P for probably. Latest Nvidia card on the list is the 7800GTX, listed as probably.

http://www.knifeedge.com/rfvc_compatibility.php

Still it's a starting point.

You could try asking KE if they tested any AGP cards with G4 and if so what model. Alternately wait a while and see how other people go.

[Airnut]

The XFX 7800 GS works very well....and was relatively inexpensive at $100.....Does everything I want

[opjose]

Re: Nvidia's

As per their blurb...

"NVIDIA's Unified Architecture GeForce 8 Series GPUs - First to Support Microsoft DirectX 10 Games and Applications.

NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 series graphics processing units (GPUs) redefine the PC gaming experience. With a revolutionary unified architecture and full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10 games, GeForce 8 series GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, extraordinarily detailed environments, and film quality game effects. "

I've benchmarked the 8800 GT's and these things are "smoking".

On a dual core 3gHz machine my computer came in at number 10 speedwise using a single 8800 GT with 320 megs of vram, on the PCMark3d scores.

Not too shabby.

I have a second card for SLI mode and have yet to try it out.

[Bdegan]

Alright,
Installed a new video card after having issues with my previous one. The previous one just was not up to the task of running G4.
The new card is a
BFG geForce 7300GT 512MB DDR2 Dual Display AGP Graphics Card
I am running it on an
ASUS A8V deluxe board ( already ancient by todays standards :rolleyes: )
AMD athlon 64 x2 3800
2 gig of Corsair RAM

So far everything seems to be working just fine connected to an LCD monitor, with everything set to maximum.
Next I will be trying to connect to a 50" HD tv with the DVI ports, which the TV has.

Thanks everyone for video card advice

[MadMonkey]

BFG geForce 7300GT 512MB DDR2 Dual Display AGP Graphics Card

You should be happy with that; I just picked up the 256mb version for my older computer. With shadows turned down I'm getting about 50+ fps on 3D fields and around 115+ on photofields, that's with just about everything else turned up.

I'm running a 1.8ghz Athlon processor (NOT a dual core) and 1gig RAM.

Time to update :o