[CUBE] graphics options?

[Thubten Kunga]

If you're not a gamer, I think the main good reason to do a Cube video 
card upgrade is to add TwinView capability to the Cube.

k

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 04:16  PM, Arturo Pérez wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:43  PM, Michael McPherson wrote:
>
>> The main disadvantage of the stock 128 card found in most cubes is 
>> that it does not allow for "quartz extreme" in OS X.  QE makes the 
>> desktop (and system) considerably more snappy and responsive, as 
>> drawing tasks are offloaded more from the cpu to the graphics card.
>>
>>
> While it is true that the 128 is incapable of "quartz extreme" it 
> turns out that for 10.2.3 the 128 can
> still make things almost as fast.  I saw some benchmarks (can't 
> remember where) that showed the difference
> in speed between a 128 and a GFMX2.  Before 10.2.3 the difference is 
> significant but with 10.2.3 the difference
> is negligible.
>
> So, IMO, if you're using 10.2.3 and don't play intense 3D games the 
> 128 is fine.  You'd actually get more mileage
> from a CPU upgrade, a RAM upgrade (kindof a must), or a disk upgrade.