Re: Excellent in-depth look at Tiger

[Gerald Wilson]

Umm. I think what Liam is trying to point out is that QE over PCI  
doesn't work all that well, because it tends to saturate the PCI bus,  
as many of us have found. By contrast, QE over AGP is fine, because  
nothing else is competing for the AGP bus, because it is a private  
data highway between CPU and GPU (as it were).

YMMV. Which means that some people find QE over PCI ok (probably  
because they have no other devices plugged into PCI slots). Others  
may be okay because they have a six-slot m-board, with a (sort of )  
split PCI design, so their graphics card is separate from any other  
PCI devices they have.

Personally, I got system freezes. When I turned off PCI Extreme they  
seemed to go away. So for now I live without it.

GWW
On 3 May 2005, at 15:18, Dan Stewart wrote:
You misunderstand me, on several counts.
And you appear to misunderstand also.

[1] This isn't Panther's Quartz Extreme, which only accelerates  
window
compositing & passes huge textures to and from the graphics card over
the bus - which doesn't work well on PCI. QE doesn't support PCI  
for a
good reason.

Except that it does support PCI.   All you have to do is turn it  
on.  I have.   It makes a big difference, including in 10.4.

Dan

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