I've been dying to tell you guys. I have been working on a special card for the Cube. The 9800 SE's would fit but 50% couldn't run with all 8 pipelines working. To be a Mac card, they needed to have all 8. (device ID thing) I did sell a few, but many I had to unload to the PC crowd.
Anyway, I found a card that fits, AND runs all 8 pipelines, at the same clock speeds as the retail Pro edition. They take me a little time to do, lot's of scary surface mount soldering, but they work. (except for the 4 dead ones on my workbench)
To the touch, they feel significantly cooler than the GF3's run. And they are MUCH, MUCH faster than anything else.
Anyway, they are likely to be the last cards made to run 2X AGP.
They are great cards, a world of difference to anything else. ATI could do these with their eyes closed, they just don't want to.
Exactly same size as 8500, just TWICE as fast.
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