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eMac Video Upgrade

Posted by pudge on from the solitaire-works-fine-for-me-on-that-thing dept.

Bri3D writes "I've got an eMac G4/700, with a GeForce2 220 32MB video card. The video card is great for everyday use, but woefully slow for gaming. I looked for a method to replace the video card, and found these pages about eMac disassembly, but no information on if the video is upgradeable or even seperate from the motherboard. Does anyone have information on replacing the video card on an eMac?"

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  1. MOD PARENT DOWN by Bri3D · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The writer of this comment was not informed, as Slashdot does not pull stories. Additionaly, I do own an eMac G4 and am very happy with it besides its unacceptable Warcraft III performance. There are games for the mac(LOTS!). As a note, newer eMacs have a better graphics card (ATI Radeon 7500) anyway.

  2. What I am thinking?!!! by Enrique1218 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just get an Xbox

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  3. Re:Gaming experience? by Shishio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unreal Tournament and UT2K3 are both heavily processor based. Turning off textures and world complexity do very little to increase frame rates on my machines. I would recommend getting the best processor model of eMac you can, or getting a used PowerMac. A GeForce 2 or Geforce 4MX are both fine for those games. I don't have much experience with the Radeon cards, but I imagine that ones with 32 or more MB of ram on them would be fine.

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