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Old Oct 23, 2007, 01:25 PM   #1
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HELP, buying iMac today 20" or 24"??

well today i get to go out and buy a new beauty...

however i would like to use this thing for some moderate gaming. (HL2, TF2)

these games run awesome on my 2.4 MBP with 8600GT 256mb .... however i was wondering is there a big decrease in proformance (FPS wise) between the 20 and 24" ?

i would really like to have the 24", but if the FPS drop a ton then mabey the 20" would be better for me ... since the video card wouldnt have to push out such a high native resolution.

is there anywhere that has bootcamp gaming benchmarks on these new imacs? all i have been able to find is OSX gaming benchmarks, but we all know graphics proformance in windows under bootcamp is far better than in osx...
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Old Oct 23, 2007, 01:27 PM   #2
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I doubt if it would be a huge difference. Maybe a few FPS but not much.

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is there anywhere that has bootcamp gaming benchmarks on these new imacs? all i have been able to find is OSX gaming benchmarks, but we all know graphics proformance in windows under bootcamp is far better than in osx...
QFT. Except for WoW which is faster under OSX thanks to multi-threaded OpenGL. There are lots of threads on MR here that have gaming benchmarks under bootcamp.
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