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Dana Haskell
Neko
Join date: 28 Mar 2007
Posts: 2
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11-04-2008 06:36
Hi!
I'm thinking about buying an iMac. Question is which machine I should buy. How big is the speed difference between the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT and the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO?
How much FPS are you having with these machines?
Thanks!
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Blaze Nielsen
Registered User
Join date: 24 May 2005
Posts: 276
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iMac 24 inch WOW
11-04-2008 08:03
Got a new 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with ATI Radeon Pro graphics card. This machine is absolutely AWESOME! running SL. I cranked up all the settings to ULTRA, 250 meter draw distance, the works and it runs SL flawlessly. Even some anti aliasing (to smooth jaggies for pictures) was no problem, however noticed a small decrease in performance. Been a Mac fan for many years and its great to see SL running well on OSX now (haven't tried it on the windows/bootcamp version, no reason to install that on my machine).
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Dana Haskell
Neko
Join date: 28 Mar 2007
Posts: 2
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11-04-2008 09:07
Hi! From: Blaze Nielsen Got a new 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with ATI Radeon Pro graphics card. This machine is absolutely AWESOME! running SL. Great! I already had the chance to do a short test with this machine (the 20" with the same graphics). I couldn't do very much testing. But what you are telling sounds really cool. Question is how the difference to the smallest machine is. |
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Kara Spengler
Pink Cat
Join date: 11 Jun 2007
Posts: 1,227
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11-04-2008 09:46
I bought the then-highest-end iMac of a year ago and was on DSL at the time. Use FIOS for my connection now. Texture loading could be better but that is SL for you, overall a pretty sweet machine. [One of my first comments after getting the iMac: "is 40 fps good?"  ] |
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Windy Lurra
Registered User
Join date: 8 Sep 2006
Posts: 39
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11-05-2008 19:49
I got the 2.8ghz imac. Hard to keep it from freezing. Seems to be a bit better when I max out the fan, but I don't feel it's worth shortening the lifespan of the fans.
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Blaze Nielsen
Registered User
Join date: 24 May 2005
Posts: 276
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Freezing?
11-07-2008 07:28
My experience with the 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with ATI Radeon Pro graphics card couldn't be more opposite. I run it in SL sometimes 16 hours a day in varying conditions. Can barely hear the fan whir even in very active areas. I use a pretty large cache setting and keep it on ultra settings in graphics. My overall experience with the Imac has been nothing short of fantastic. I did have a few problems converting to a new viewer on my old machine. Got some freezing and crashing, but, I removed every file related to SL and reinstalled, that seemed to clear things up.
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Soap Clawtooth
Registered User
Join date: 13 Feb 2008
Posts: 200
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11-08-2008 22:15
I have the 20" Imac with 2 GHz Core Duo Processor.
3gb of RAM
can run SL at ultra with draw at 120 and particles at 5000
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Dr Debruyere
Anna
Join date: 12 Jul 2008
Posts: 43
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Need advice on purchasing a 24" iMac
11-10-2008 16:06
Hi I have a $2000 budget to buy a computer at work (no exceptions). I am an educator so I get a good price. I can only afford to get 2 of the following 3 upgrades;
1) Upgrade ram from 2GB to 4GB
2) Upgrade ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO w/256MB to NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS w/512MB
3) Upgrade Processor from 2.8 to 3.0s GHz
What will give me the best SL performance?
Anna
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Milla Janick
Empress Of The Universe
Join date: 2 Jan 2008
Posts: 3,075
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11-10-2008 16:31
I'd get the 4GB RAM and the 8800GS video card. The RAM may be considerably cheaper from someone other than Apple.
The 2.8GHz CPU is more than adequate.
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