[Cube] Influence of faster (or slower) graphics card>gaming?

[Donald Schwab]

My suggestion is give up games.  Just a phenomenal waste of time, 
anyway.   Your set up will probably do a fine enough job of video 
editing, say, a complex activity, demanding of attention and a smooth 
hand on the mouse (sounds a bit like a game, no?) -- and better yet, 
after an evening at the computer, you may have something useful, or 
beautiful, or just desirable.  Compare that to playing a game.


Don  (Last played anything in 2001)



On Mar 7, 2005, at 13:06, Allan Hise wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Stefan wrote:
>
>> Hello friends of cube,
>>
>> some time ago I upgraded to a 1.5 GHz GigaDesign 7457-Card and also a
>> GeForce 4MX.
>>
>> Encouraged, I tried to play some games, which were not playable
>> before upgrading.
>> Really good was - for example - Ghost Recon.
>>
>> But when I tested some other games I had to realize, that 1.5 GHz
>> aren't enough.
>> Frame Rate is yet too low to play comfortable even in low resolution
>> (1024x768 instead of 1280x1024)
>>
>> My QUESTIONs are:
>>
>> 1) Which enfluence has a faster graphics card (faster than GeForce 4
>> MX!) on gaming with my system
>> (OS-X 10.3.7 and 1.5 GB RAM, fast HD)?
>>
>> 2) Which (gaming) card can you recommend after own experiences?
>>
>> Thanks for answers and tips in advance
>
> My guess is that the cube's slow AGP port (2x if I remember right) and
> slow-ish bus (100 MHz?) are coming into play here. The fastest CPU & 
> GPU
> won't make any difference if the data can't move very fast.
>
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