"best" gpu for pegasos ii
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    lordborak
    Posts: 9 from 2007/10/11
    Hi there!
    I have a pegasos II G4 and am looking at the hardware compability list (https://morphos-team.net/hardware) trying to figure out what gpu to get. If possible, I would like to try to get the "best" supported gpu. I've tried to search online, but find it quite hard to understand if I can use any of those listed graphic cards on all the supported motherboards or if I need to exclude some of them because of me using a pegasos (and not a powermac 5 for example).
    Thankful for any help regarding this!
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12504 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > If possible, I would like to try to get the "best" supported gpu.

    The best tested thing is to source a 3.3V-compatible AGP 1.0 Radeon 9800 (Pro/XL/XXL/XT).
    If you are adventurous and want a (probably) unique config, you could try to source a PCI Radeon HD5450 and have that working even in 3D with the latest public TinyGL beta, at the expenses of lower bus speed and not being able to access the SmartFirmware though.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    polluks
    Posts: 839 from 2007/10/23
    From: Gelsenkirchen,...
    Indeed, the CGA-5452PLI also has HDMI.
    Pegasos II G4: MorphOS 3.9, Zalman M220W · iMac G5 12,1 17", MorphOS 3.18
    Power Mac G3: OSX 10.3 · PowerBook 5,8: OSX 10.5, MorphOS 3.18
  • »22.07.24 - 08:22
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  • Just looking around
    lordborak
    Posts: 9 from 2007/10/11
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:

    If you are adventurous and want a (probably) unique config, you could try to source a PCI Radeon HD5450


    Such as this one? (Have found one of those)

    https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asus-hd-5450-silent-v2-1-gb.b1535

    Edit: Ohh... saw that this one was pci-e, the search will continue..


    [ Edited by lordborak 18.05.2026 - 05:36 ]
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12504 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > the search will continue..

    Best of luck! :-)


    Btw, there're some updates (good and bad) to what I wrote in comment #2 in 07/2024:

    Bad (#330) in 09/2024: R800/R900 support absent from tenth public TinyGL beta
    Good (#194) in 05/2026: 3rd-party SmartFirmware enabling access of graphics chips behind a bridge
  • »18.05.26 - 08:21
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