What you're saying is that it's INDEED worth to buy a radeon 7000 for our oldish macs ?
Is the improvements worth the (high) price of it ?
How better than internal (onboard) video ?
Thanks a lot
Carlos Bragatto
PS: By the way, are you related to brazilians ? Because "da Silva" is the MOST popular surname here in Brazil
On Tuesday, Nov 4, 2003, at 18:40 America/Sao_Paulo, Peter da Silva wrote:
Holy Mother of Wozniak, does a better video card help.
I guess the folks who claimed OS X didn't do any acceleration other than
Quartz Extreme were psychopathically oversimplifying.
The CPU load does go up quite a bit though, even when I'm just typing in a Terminal window. I assume that's the wonky PowerStorm PCI bridge and the generally slower PCI bus that's responsible.
I've also had a bunch of hash on the screen when I had too many Quicktime
windows open at once, possibly due to the flashed card. Also, I can't detect
any speed difference between 16- and 24- bit mode.
Oh, and it goes up to around 1800x1500 on my monitor, but that makes my brain hurt.
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