Gforce4 4600 not available till June or later
Yeah announce it first and give us a new name on an old card. Then you can ship the real thing in a year. I wanted this card but Apple's site now says check back in June for availability, you can't even order one as BTO. Meanwhile PC gamers will have had the 4600 for 6 months and will already be looking to upgrade. But hey,..we at least got the announcement first !!! <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
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My PC GeForce3 that I flashed to work in my Mac (G4/533DP) delivers me great frames.
Rather than having the freshest,dopest card available, I'd rather have DDR RAM and a faster main Bus coupled with a G4/G5 - that would make my plain old GF3 (or my old V5) truly sing.
The Ti200 and Ti500 have a smaller ROM which prevent them from being flashed.
Maybe nvidia became aware of all the flashing and took steps to stop that (I hope not though).
Looks like it's time to build another PC gaming box with UT2K03 just around the corner.
I thought that video cards' power came from the dedicated hardware - the GPU and the mini-memory system.
<strong>what's flashing? like changing software on the card?
I thought that video cards' power came from the dedicated hardware - the GPU and the mini-memory system.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, the hardware and the RAM does give the card it's muscle, but with the original GeForce3 reference cards you could save the PC ROM and replace it with the Mac ROM from the cards that Apple shipped.
I sold my then new GF3MX out of my G4/533DP for $191.50 on eBay ( and felt bad taking that much!), bought a PC GF3 off of ubid.com for $230 and flashed it to work in my Mac. It worked out well.
<a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/flashing_pc_geforce3.html" target="_blank">Here's the link</a> if you want more info on flashing.
<strong>The only thing that's holding me back from buying a dual Ghz G4 is the lack of the GF4 ti. I really hate the idea of being forced to buy a GF4MX or a Radeon 7500.</strong><hr></blockquote>
is there no ati 8500 for the mac? i heared the 8500LE is even nicely overclockable to 8500 speeds..
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