Re: Moving to OS X

[James S Jones]

I couldn't disagree more. I have never had a crash or slowdown that was 
in any way associated with QE on PCI. In fact, I haven't had a kernel 
panic since turning it on. And, while I wouldn't consider bothering 
with benchmarks to back this up, the boost certainly *feels* more like 
15 to 20%

On Mar 17, 2004, at 9:19 AM, 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.


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