Downgrading the G4

I could no longer take the pure performance of my G4 PowerMac, so when I saw this old ATI card in　the Junk section of the local Hard-Off for 100円, I had to pick it up.

Before the down-grade, I was running a hacked Nvidia GeForce, which replaced the original ATI (that I still have). 

Firstly I was surprised that the card actually works. I guess I (or it) was lucky that it was only in the Junk bin without protection for long.

Test-setup:

• MacOS 10.4.11 (Tiger)
• Cinebench 2003
• GeekBench3

Results

Geekbench results where identical, since it doesn't test GPU in that version.

Cinebench, impact was high:

 But hey, I don't keep that thing around for performance computing.

As a bonus, my MacOS 9.2 partition is now usable again. I could not for the love of god get it to work with the Geforce.

So finally I can enjoy errors like this again :-)

"I'll finish you like Macintosh does floppy disks."