----- Original Message ----- From: "dana sibera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Quadlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: [q]Re: What's the best NuBus video card?
> > On 13/02/2004, at 5:10 AM, Tim Larson wrote: > > > On 2/12/2004 11:17 AM, Powermac felt like writing: > > > >> I think the fastest boards were the ones made by Radius for the last > >> nubus > >> macs (Radius Thunder IV Gx 1600) since by that time they were one of > >> the few > >> companies left. The built in video is generally faster then anything > >> you can > >> plug into a slow nubus slot, but you are limited to 2mb of vram. > >> Since the > >> 840AV machine has built in DSP's finding a video card with dsp's (the > >> radius > >> I mentioned) would probably be a waste of time (and doesn't work with > >> os 8.x > >> I believe). I have an inexpensive Supermac Thunder 24 (Radius > >> purchased > > > > The speed of Nubus hadn't crossed my mind. Good point. Any rough > > ideas on how much speed one gets from DSPs? > > I have a Thunder IV 1360, and using it in a Powermac 7100 with the DSP > plugins for photoshop 4.0 lets it resize/gaussian blur/some other > filters almost the speed of my G3/400 iMac (tested on some of large > images). It's a phenomenal boost for those features it helps. For > everything else, it's just a nice quick and featureful NuBus graphics > card. It does run a little slower in the 68ks I've used it on, but not > in any way deficient. > > If you like flashing lights, it's a nice card too. There's a row of > LEDs on the card itself that indicate when a DSP is being used. They > flash away like crazy in photoshop :) > > dana > I believe that the speed of the 840AV nubus is faster then the machines before it (same design as the nubus on the PPC models). There is a driver for photoshop (found on apples website) for the built in DSP's on the 840av so just test it out to see if there is a noticeable improvement. -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.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/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
