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Oct. 9th, 2010 09:25 pm
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Is there any way a refurbished NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 32MB 4x AGP Graphics Card for a Mac (presumably an old mac with AGP slots) can possibly be worth 50 quid?

Do the mac ones differ from everyone else's AGP graphics cards in some way? Because they look identical!

Date: 2010-10-09 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
That seems ridiculously high.

Date: 2010-10-10 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
[Teal'c] Indeed [/Teal'c]

Date: 2010-10-09 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robertprior.livejournal.com
Apparently Mac graphics cards are different from PC ones.

At least, that's what I was told at the local computer shop, where the chap told me he didn't have any Mac cards, and the PC ones he did have wouldn't work in my Mac.

Date: 2010-10-10 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Why am I surprised that they would modify it? It's Apple, of COURSE they modified it!

Date: 2010-10-10 06:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
> It's Apple, of COURSE they modified it!

... to make it "easier"

Date: 2010-10-09 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saranjeuhal.livejournal.com
The cards differ somewhat in their hardware and obviously their drivers. That's incredibly expensive though for 32Mb. That said, they don't make those cards anymore. PCI-E has overtaken AGP.

Date: 2010-10-10 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Thanks - came across it on eBay, couldn't believe it.

Date: 2010-10-10 02:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saranjeuhal.livejournal.com
For my old Mac Desktop, I had one of those cards, but in 64Mb variant. With the stuff you're running into with computers, I'd suggest moving to a Mac Mini and running OSX, Windows and Linux on their own partitions. Best of all worlds.

Date: 2010-10-10 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
It's a possibility, but I'm not sure I can afford it right now.

Date: 2010-10-10 10:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robertprior.livejournal.com
If it's no longer made, scarcity may have driven the price up.

I've got a bare-bones NVidia-something in my MacPro. I recently got into video, and one of the companies I purchased Final Cut plugins from recommended I get an ATI-Radeon card instead (apparently my graphics card was causing the plugins to crash under OS 10.6, due to a Snow Leopard incompatibility). I couldn't find one that would work with my older-model MacPro — and the prices for used cards were as high or higher than new ones!

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