On 10/15/02 11:52 AM, "Mark Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. Yes, I am very interested in seeing if this 64 bit processor will show it's face in the Apple line. Actually I think that Apple could do ok with the hardware it has if the Motherboards sported faster bus speeds. (I think we all agree to that). I have an older G4 400 agp 2x and tried putting my GeForce 4 MX in it and it would not work in OS X. Only in OS 9. I wonder why that is? I thought it had something to do with the G4's AGP speed being 2x and the card being a 4X. Oh well, I put it back in the 867 and off we go. Matthew Elliott -- 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
