My G5 is somewhat louder too. Interestingly it is due to the G5 PCI bay fans running at higher speed. The Zalman fan is nearly silent.

Well there's nothing like getting the genuine article. Seems like a decent price too.

After a few initial hiccups my flashed BFG 6800GT has operated flawlessly, but I may return it to PC duty soon so my gf can play World of Warcraft at higher resolutions.

As long as its an AGP G5, the process involves a straightforward flash with the 2120 rom available at the previously mentioned site. An eVGA or XFX 6800gt may be the preferred way to go as their coolers are more conventional and compact. AGP 6800GT's are almost impossible to find new, however, so th...

I'd been looking to upgrade the graphics card on my (AGP) Dual G5 from a Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition. I considered the x800xt but the $400 price tag put me off, so I turned to the BFG 6800GT in the PC next door. After a fairly straightforward flashing process using a rom from the strangedogs website...

I've been using the 'restore' function in disk utility to do the same thing.

Gosh, I play some fairly lengthy bouts of Quake3 with my fall '03 Dual 2.0 G5 and rarely if ever crash out of it. I have an ATI 9800 Pro.

The only bug that bothers me is when the server loads a new map and everything is whiteout. I type vid_restart in the console and everything is fine.

ahhhhhhhhhh! what a relief, it works!

Thanks, Canis, you da man.

Hiya everyone, its been a while. My sound is corrupted when I start Q3 and ingame as well. The pounding id logo intro clips, skips or is altogether silent and everything else is clipped and high pitched. Other games (including RTCW) work just fine. I tried renaming my config so that Q3 would create ...