On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 13:48 Europe/London, Rik Gresham wrote: >> It'll help, but I doubt it wil be "tremendous". Don't get your hopes >> up >> too high. > > So will it make a noticeable, effective difference in speed? I just > got L2CacheConfig running and it sped things up a LOT. Will the effect > be that fast or slower?
With Quartz Extreme enabled it will certainly be noticeable, but as Liam says, not dramatic. Bear in mind that the card is designed 'ideally' for B&W G3s and Yikes! PCI G4s. It will run at 66MHz but the 8500 (in fact all old World Macs) have only has a 33HMz bus which will bottleneck things a bit. I think it will probably have the best advantage over the IX3D card during times of heavy usage when older cards with less VRAM will start swapping stuff in and out of the system RAM and slowing the machine down as a whole. -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> "What is real. How do you define real?" -The Matrix -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
