Radeon Pci Card...Mac Version!

[XCLAN]

I have a voodoo 5 card that works in either a mac or a pc! and i have since found a radeon pci card i wanna buy. My question is does anyone here have this card? its a 64 meg radeon 7000 pci. Will it work in a mac if it is made for the pc like my voodoo 5 does?

 

[FSUpaintball]

My god, now Mac users can appreciate the pure crappiness of ATI's cards just as much as PC users!!!!


</flame suit on>


And before you guys blast me, you should know that I have owned both Nvidia and ATI cards.

 

[ElFenix]

i've got 3 geforces and 2 radeons and they all suq! the last non-problematic card i had was my V3 2K.

 

[FSUpaintball]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i've got 3 geforces and 2 radeons and they all suq! the last non-problematic card i had was my V3 2K.

I had a Voodoo Banshee in my old PC. Never caused me any problems. Good card.

Then, I got a GeForce 2 GTS. Still, no problems, good card.

Got a GeForce 3 TI200. Great card, unbelievable overclockability, no problems.

Got a Radeon 8500 (retail). WORSE performance (even after a format), tons of bugs, and lots of problems. Only thing that was better was multimedia capability. And even that was buggy.

Got a GeForce 4 TI4200. Great card. No problems.


I still believe that ATI builds a MUCH better card (Radeon 8500 had potential to destroy GF3, and didn't even require a fan!) but whoever writes their drivers is on crack. It's a real shame to see good cards brought down by bad software.

 

[ElFenix]

lets see...
gf256, got it in march 2k, the original drivers weren't very stable. i had to wait for nvidia to go from 3.x to 5.x drivers. the card was golden after that

gf3 ti200, overclocks like a mofo, but the drivers that we for that series of card caused the game i bought it for to go haywire. i had to piece together two different driver sets to get a set that enabled the features but didn't cause daoc to go haywire. the latest drivers are fine. oh, and quake3 doesn't work. never has. not even on a fresh install of win2k.

radeon 7500 AIW, for some reason it keeps copying shows to F: rather than H:. overclocks pretty well too. actually its not overclocked because the memory is certified for 200MHz and default is 183. but that extra GB/sec comes in handy.

 

[fatbaby]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
lets see...
gf256, got it in march 2k, the original drivers weren't very stable. i had to wait for nvidia to go from 3.x to 5.x drivers. the card was golden after that

gf3 ti200, overclocks like a mofo, but the drivers that we for that series of card caused the game i bought it for to go haywire. i had to piece together two different driver sets to get a set that enabled the features but didn't cause daoc to go haywire. the latest drivers are fine. oh, and quake3 doesn't work. never has. not even on a fresh install of win2k.

radeon 7500 AIW, for some reason it keeps copying shows to F: rather than H:. overclocks pretty well too. actually its not overclocked because the memory is certified for 200MHz and default is 183. but that extra GB/sec comes in handy.

got the gf256 in march 2k too, got me 50 fps in cs (good enough)

got the gf3 in jan 2k1, l33t3st graphics card evar! 99 fps in cs!

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: FSUpaintball
My god, now Mac users can appreciate the pure crappiness of ATI's cards just as much as PC users!!!!


</flame suit on>


And before you guys blast me, you should know that I have owned both Nvidia and ATI cards.

AFAIK ATI has made cards for macs for some time...

 

[FSUpaintball]

Originally posted by: fatbaby

got the gf256 in march 2k too, got me 50 fps in cs (good enough)

got the gf3 in jan 2k1, l33t3st graphics card evar! 99 fps in cs!

Actually, there's ways of getting a GeForce 2 MX200 to run CS at a steady 99 FPS.

 

[XCLAN]

I have a voodoo 5 pci, Voodoo 3 200 Pci, Voodoo 4 Pci, Voodoo 3 3k pci, Just sold a voodoo 2 pci, and i have a radeon Pci. plus a radeon 8500, and geforce{crappy 3}.

best card i ever owned was a matrox g400{still have it , but it died, due to old driver tweks that didnt uninstall from a geforce 3, i ran the ccard for 2 weeks after removing a geforce 3 from my computer, found my screen all jacked up and pc froze, fried my card...somehow rivatuner had overclocked my card}

 

[mattyrug]

I didn't know they'd work in a mac straight out of the box.....
I had to flash EVERY single voodoo card with the Mac BIOS to work in any of my Macs.
Someone was working on developing a flash uitlity for ATI Cards, but hit some kind of a roadblock.... can't remember, it was a while ago when I was reading about it. You may wann check over at XLR8 Your Mac and do some reading...

 

[mpitts]

Yeah, you will either need the Mac version of the video card or need to flash the ROM of the video card in order to get it working. I highly doubt it will work properly straight out of the box unless it is the Mac version of the card.