> MBoard video at Millions is slowest, MBoard video at Thousands andRage128 at Millions is about the same, noticeably faster. Rage128 at Thousands is a bit faster than those but the differences in speed aren't huge; it's choppy with all these.
Hmmm.
I don't see a really huge difference between thousands and millions for anything but video. I don't know exactly what "choppy" means, but the update rate for dragging a terminal window is acceptable either way. I don't see any "choppyness" in dock magnification, but I haven't tried that when I've been doing anything on the machine because I find Dock magnification really annoying.
I've ordered a Rage 128 (found one for $30, same model number as the one at WeLoveMacs), and I'll see what you mean when it gets here.
$30? That's a good deal for these older Macs! I'd consider getting one for my parents' 7300 which is stuck at OS 9.1 for lack of a good OS X video card.
I agree that I don't see a big difference with Thousands and Millions on the motherboard video but it's more noticeable when scrolling through documents. I'm concerned with scrolling speed because for me, scrolling speed is the biggest performance factor which makes a computer feel fast or slow. Waiting for the information to show up in an HTML or text document while scrolling around to find it drives me nuts.
By choppiness, I mean that the window doesn't move smoothly around the screen, The transparent Terminal (I use 80x50 size) only updates the window location a few times per second with either of these video cards at Thousands or Millions. With the AGP Rage128 in the G4/450, it updates more than 30 times a second so it looks smooth when moving the window around.
With opaque windows, the PCI Rage128 in both the 7500 G3/420 and the Beige G3/500 is smooth at Thousands and most of the time at Millions (except with very large windows- it's size-dependent). The motherboard video in both the 7500 and Beige is slow and not smooth (updates 10x or so times per second, giving a stop-motion look to the window movement).
I don't use Dock magnification either (annoying) but it's a reasonable test of video update speed, though it's CPU-dependent, too.
- Tom
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