The "Mutant" GeForce 6600 GT AGP for a PowerMac G4?

[Dt990]

Looking over the best GPU options and I came across BareFeats with a modded AGP GeForce 6600 and there's little info. I was under the impression (probably falsely) this GPU only existed as a PCIe version for Macs.

Thanks to a member of the 'experimental graphics card' forum on StrangeDogs.com, we had a chance to test drive a GeForce 6600 GT (AGP) graphics card that had been modified to work on a G4 Power Mac with a 4X AGP slot. We used a G4/1.42MP Power Mac 'FW800' -- the last and best of that 'breed' -- to compare the GeForce 6600 GT to OEM and retail cards available for that model in the past and the present.

Sadly the link in the article doesn't work, nor does waybackmachine as it was a forum that required a login to view.

I assume two things are at play:

• Need to use the NVFlash.exe on a PC to flash it with Mac Firmware
• Need to perform 8x AGP mod of taping the pins for it to work.

Anyone have any info? Posted on Reddit too, will update here if I learn anything there.

https://barefeats.com/mutant.html

 

[eyoungren]

I don't have any advice to offer you, but I did want to mention that for some time before retirement I had an NVIDIA GeForce 68000 GT fully functional in my Quicksilver.



It was donated to me by a member here who was kind enough to ship it all the way from the UK to Phoenix. The story I have on this card was that it was unstable in any system OTHER than a Quicksilver. And the card I had bought for my QS shortly before this one (FireGL X3) does not work in the Quicksilver.

From some quick Google searches the suggestion is that the 6800 GT seems to have some advantages over the 6600 GT you mention. I know the 6800 GT works and I am fairly certain it was flashed, but I do not know the story on that.

PS. I shipped it off to another member here a few years back when I retired the QS.

 

[Dt990]

I found the ROMs but zero info about anything else

Wikidownloads2 - The Mac Elite

themacelite.wikidot.com

 

[reddrag0n]

this site might help, it's archived, but aquamac was able to do something with a 6800 card on a QS

nVidia 6800 GT on a Mac G4

 

[bunnspecial]

I don't have any advice to offer you, but I did want to mention that for some time before retirement I had an NVIDIA GeForce 68000 GT fully functional in my Quicksilver.

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It was donated to me by a member here who was kind enough to ship it all the way from the UK to Phoenix. The story I have on this card was that it was unstable in any system OTHER than a Quicksilver. And the card I had bought for my QS shortly before this one (FireGL X3) does not work in the Quicksilver.

From some quick Google searches the suggestion is that the 6800 GT seems to have some advantages over the 6600 GT you mention. I know the 6800 GT works and I am fairly certain it was flashed, but I do not know the story on that.

PS. I shipped it off to another member here a few years back when I retired the QS.

And it is back in the same Quicksilver now