[CUBE] graphics options?

[Hal]

Or to be able to support a higher resolution monitor...

-Hal

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> 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.
>
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