[rescue] Re: rescue Digest, Vol 28, Issue 10

[Andrew Weiss]

On Mar 6, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Mike Nicewonger wrote:

> On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 07:58  PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>
>>> Those are cool. I just bought a G4/450 Sawtooth. It will be ginned 
>>> up with a Gig of memory, 64MB Radeon 9000 Pro, ATTO UW2 SCSI card 
>>> and 74GB drive RSN. After I get some extra scratch it will get a 
>>> 1GHz accelerator.
>>>
>>
>> Check this article first:
>>
>> http://www.barefeats.com/sawgraf.html
>>
>> They don't recommend the 9000.  If I had an AGP card slot I'd 
>> probably get something brand new like a Radeon 9800 (does 2X and 4X) 
>> ... i.e. the newest and best AGP graphics available.  They make a 
>> 9xxx series for PCI now and it's simply worse than my original Radeon 
>> Mac Edition in my Blue and White...  The article above recommends the 
>> GeForce 3.
>
> Too late. The machine came with the 9000...
>
Yeah no problem... one cannot argue with effectively free...I misread 
that as an upgrade you were going to add.

:-)

Andrew