You know me, I don't like to complain

So I recently had an nVidia 7800 GS AGP get flashed up to Mac firmware from one of the guys over at Strangedogs and it worked great for say, a month.

But over the last couple of days it has been remarkably skittish about working and not freaking out. I’ll be playing WoW and the audio will stutter and the machine will hard-freeze and release and hard-freeze again. It is very distressing.

So now I’m back to a 5200 FX card and I’m thinking about either getting a 6800 DDL, a big iMac, or a MacPro. The video card selection for AGP G5s is just far too ridiculous and slim. And nobody, NOBODY has an ATI X800 Mac for sale! Everyone is sold out and inventory seems light. Great.

I am hopeful that I can have my 7800 GS fixed. I really like that card and while it is pretty clearly better than my dual G5 2.0GHz workstation can use, it is nice not having the video be the bottleneck. I have high hopes that Leopard will bring mult-threaded GL to the ppc platform. It has had an amazing effect on my MacBook with the slow integrated intel video.

My thread on the We Know forums about my card and the the benefits it has given. I’m sad that I may have to ditch it.