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lucaponte1
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Posted: Thu Jul 5th, 2007 09:56 am |
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I am very intersted in buying this upgrade card, but there are important questions and doubts about the effectiveness of this solution.
I have not found how much RAM the new upgrade card can manage respect to the original one.
1- For example: if I get this upgrade card, can I install my 2x 256MB pc133 modules and enjoy full 512 MB or the new system still considers just 256MB (an half of it)?
This is a too common question amomg all my friends at university who are considering this upgrade for their 233 iMac.
I suppose it is a common question for every 233iMac owner.
2- The upgrade price is interesting but it is for a computer that is almost ten year old, specially with its graphic card.
The upgrade will boost graphics too but will never supply factory limits of the graphic card, even for simple tasks, such as chess application shipped with Panther.
Curvus pro, a very useful Math application, acquired by Apple and included in Tiger with the name of Grapher, needs a 8MB Vram graphic card to display OPEN GL 3D graphics.
Will the new upgrade card allow those application to run correctly?
Waiting for answers to my questions before buying this upgrade.
sincerely,
Luca
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Gary
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Posted: Thu Jul 5th, 2007 11:56 pm |
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For example: if I get this upgrade card, can I install my 2x 256MB pc133 modules and enjoy full 512 MB or the new system still considers just 256MB (an half of it)?
The card (like before the upgrade) will accept 2 x 256 MB RAM DIMMs. The RAM must be the type that is programmed corrrectly for the iMac G3, PowerBook G3 systems with a higher cache latency. Daystar sells this RAM and offers it as an option on the ordering page.
The upgrade will boost graphics too but will never supply factory limits of the graphic card, even for simple tasks, such as chess application shipped with Panther.
The upgrade adds ALL the capabilities of the G4 CPU to the iMac. This includes any applications which take advantage of the G4's AltiVec unit. It also includes all the Quartz (display postscript) rendering of the Finder in Mac OSX as well.
Will the new upgrade card allow (8 MB VRAM Req.) those application to run correctly?
The upgrade does not change the Graphics VRAM.
Applications like Google Earth which say they require a certain amount of VRAM still run on the older systems, with G4's installed. Other apps can run, but it is up to the programmer of the application, whether they allow it to run.
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Daystar Technology
http://Daystar-Tech.com, http://Daystar-Store.com
email: gary@daystartechnology.com, chat: garydailey@mac.com
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