josehill wrote:
indyman007 wrote:
I would probably also need a new graphics card, the current one only has a 64 MB card, I'll post in the wanted section soon just to see what people have lying around, all the decent cards seem to be in china...
That model shipped with the Radeon 9000. Not a bad card for its era, and perfectly adequate for routine computer use, though obviously you would struggle a bit with frame rates on late generation PowerPC games. Check out the video card benchmarks section at
http://lowendmac.com/video/agp/radeon-9000.html
, and don't forget to verify that any new card you try is explicitly supported for hardware acceleration by whatever version of the OS you pick. Just because a card will work with a particular version of OS X does not necessarily mean that it will work in accelerated mode.
Ah, good point, I would've over looked that, glad that you raised it, but I think first things first, RAM, I need/would like 2GB, so I can run 10.4, at the moment it is said to be running 10.3.9, but from what I gather there are two types of RAM in regard to the bus speed, 133MHz or 167MHz, so I'll have to see, hopefully it will be the same as what I already have.
But after reading that page you posted, I don't think I will need to upgrade straight away, in one of my older PCs I have an Nvidia GeForce Mx440 (which as I understand it, was the entry level GPU), not the same but a 64MB card never the less, it seems to cope quite well with playing videos, the pc it is installed in is only a low spec machine, 1.2GHz, 1GB of ram and it runs Ubuntu, but on a good day i.e. one where I only run the web browser and no other applications it can even play a youtube video
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, I am not expecting the mac to be able to do that, but I would like to be able to watch DVDs and downloaded films.