On Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002, at 15:33 Europe/London, Matthew Elliott wrote: > I have a G4 867mhz machine running OS 10.2.1 , Geforce 4 MX card and I > play > Medal of Honor Allied assault getting 40 to 50 fps on it. I have > Built a > PeeCee with ECS K7s motherboard with a Duron 1.3 GHz processor and a > Geforce > 3 ti card and it blows my mac out of the water with games.(I hate to > say > that) I do not use it for anything other then games. However you can > build > a PC for pennies on the dollar compared to purchasing a new Mac. > > So I love my Mac and I use it on a daily basis, but when it comes down > to > which computer I want to use to get the best graphics and frame rates > in my > games, I use the PC. Cheap and fast, not to reliable. When I want to > check > Email, use Photoshop, iChat, iCal, iTunes, browse the internet or > anything > else I use my wonderful Mac. Actually I have two G4's, a Beige G3, a > iBook, > a performa 6214 and a PeeCee.
OK here's another games comparison, I find games a good 'technological edge' benchmark as they really stretch the 3D and CPU hardware to the max. I run a G3/400 w/ 384MB RAM and a Rage 128. My buddy that I was roomed next to at University until June had a 450MHz PIII (old slot 1 machine) with PC100 RAM and a Riva TNT2 32MB AGP card in. I reckon my G3, with AGP and 512MB RAM as his PC had would have been a match for it. HOWEVER. We also had in our house a QS G4/733 (another guys) and a 1.2GHz Athlon (my neighbor's main machine) machine. Both had 512MB PC133 RAM, both had GeForce 2 32MB cards (AGP 4x). The PC didn't exactly blow G4s sox off playing RtCW and they clocked the same FPS to woth in 0.9fps on the same Quake3 Timedemo test (not G3 IS AltiVec optimised). It's hard to tell and is a balance of the quality and speed of the hardware and the quality of the software's authors. I plan to build a new PC in the next 6 months to play games on (hoping of course I actually get a job in that time) because I stand little hope of getting a Mac good enough to play nay current titles. My current PC is a 500MHz K6-2 with crumby PC66 RAM (well most of it is PC100, it's just 1 DIMM pulling it down) in it and a Voodoo3 2000 PCI (from my 7500 which I sold). It's a poor games platform for games 1-2 years old never mind current so i think my G3 is better than it at least. On this subject i did find that article about IBM's 64-bit PowerPC very interesting. It seems that is the missing link between Apple and the Power4. -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Mac LC Central My homepage: <http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson/> -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.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/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
