On Mar 17, 2004, at 05:19 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 17, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Mark Benson wrote:3. Upgrade the video card?
Yes, Yes and er.... Yes! Fitting a Radeon PCI card will vastly improve the graphics speed, provided you enable Quartz Extreme via a 3rd Party utility.
QE on a PCI card gets you no more than a 3-5% performance boost. In return you get crashes and other slowdowns because QE will swamp the PCI bus, which is *why* apple didn't enable it for PCI cards in the first place.
Speed is not necessarily the issue - it's frame rate. Enabling QE gives a greater frame rate to Quartz animation and so vastly improves the feel of OS X and makes it feel faster. As for the crashes and slowdowns i have suffered neither in 12 months of using my Radeon with QE enabled in OS X. I don't doubt it puts a lot of load across the PCI bus though, I dunno YMMV.
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