On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:56 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
Playing video is not a problem its the streaming stuff like
YouTube, iChat and Skype. Compared to my G4 1.25 MDD and G5 2.7
PowerMac the Cube isn't in the hunt even though it's got a 1.2
GHz processor.
Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch
of processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core
Video stuff).
Streaming video is MUCH more CPU intensive than DVD playback. (This
was covered in exhaustive detail on this list a month or so back),
so anything that can be moved to the much-faster GPU really makes a
difference.
Also a Geforce 6200 is a much newer card than a GeForce3, iirc.
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My MDD has a Radeon Pro 9000 4x 64 MB card where as the Cube has a 2X
slot with a 64 MB GeForce card, So using the smooth operation of the
MDD 1.25 as a standard I assume the video card in the cube is
adequate. Also one of my "Cubies" has a Nvidia 6800 256MB 256-Bit w/
Fan in his 1.7 Cube and no joy on ichat or Skype, This is where we
seem to think the Bus speed is the bottle neck.
So far I've heard from no one who claims to have a smooth, in sync,
iChat or Skype experience on a Cube in any configuration.
i
JOHN CARMONNE
Yorba Linda USA
From TiBook 867
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