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Radeon 9200 PCI (Time Sensitive)

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Jun 2, 2017
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Just a quick heads up; I was browsing around eBay and stumbled upon this listing for a PCI Radeon 9200 Mac Edition.

www.ebay.com

ATI RADEON 109-A27531-00 Video Card – Mac Rad 9200 128M for Apple PowerMac + | eBay

Model: Mac Rad 9250.
www.ebay.com

It seems to be the only listing for the Mac version of this card currently up. It's priced at $30, although the seller seems to be contented with around $22 if an offer is made.

I don't know how rare of an occurrence this is, so that's why I'm letting you guys know just in case. :)

Insert obligatory "not my auction" comment here.
 
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...And it's gone.

That's the end of that, then...
 
Raging Dufus said:
He didn't know what he had there. Could've gotten a lot more for it, no wonder it went so fast!
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Hmmm. I have that card. Paid roughly the same price about four or five years ago for it. Believe I have the box too.
 
eyoungren said:
Hmmm. I have that card. Paid roughly the same price about four or five years ago for it. Believe I have the box too.
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It's my understanding they're sought after for primary graphics in PCI-based Power Mac G3/G4, and secondary for AGP-based G4/G5. There's quite a wide range of Power Macs that can use that card, and it's supposedly a good performer in OS 9. I've seen frequent discussion of it as a good companion to a Core Image-capable card, so that one could have the best of both worlds to dual-boot OS X.4/.5 and OS 9. Here's a couple examples of that:

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I've never had a Radeon 9200, nor had need for a PCI graphics card (never had a PCI-based Power Mac, or needed two graphics cards) so take all of that FWIW.
 
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Raging Dufus said:
I've never had a Radeon 9200, nor had need for a PCI graphics card (never had a PCI-based Power Mac, or needed two graphics cards) so take all of that FWIW.
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I have that card. The annoying thing is that after flashing, the Mac BIOS only sees half of the onboard VRAM.
 
I've just ordered one from Ebay on 14th April 2020 at about USD 40.

It's on the way to my country. Hopefully I will get it in a couple more weeks.

Will be using it in my PowerMac G3 B&W. Learned about this card from ItsMyNaturalColour in Youtube.
 
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