Gerard Van Schip wrote: > Games like Doom dont care to much for cpu power but need a decent GPU > aka Graphics card. The one in the Mini sucks. Anything 3D that I run > on it is crap, World Of Warcraft, Second Life etc run at snails pace.
It's a Radeon 9200, which has all the capabilities of the Radeon 9600 (the minimum recommended for Mac Doom 3), but with half the bus width and half the number of parallel pipelines, it runs at about a quarter of the speed. I've built three home-brew PCs with Radeom 9200 or 9250 cards, and never had any complaints. Mind you, I tend to bundle in games like Quake 3 (which will run quite happily on a Pentium 2), and the people who've bought my computers haven't been interested in the latest games. The Mac Mini 1.5GHz leaves my existing laptop (a Compaq Evo n410c, with 1.2GHz Pentium 3 mobile and a 16M Mobility Radeon chip) in the dust. However, my existing laptop plays Halo perfectly well, despite its sub-minimum graphics hardware - but the game configures itself to 640x480 pixels, 16-bit colour and as few fancy effects as possible. With a bit of configuration tweaking, I should be able to get Doom 3 running at 30+ fps on my Mac Mini. -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
