playing around with rMBP

[philipma1957]

You can put an overclocked Ivy bridge at 4.5 ghz and 32gb of ram and it wouldn't be enough... as the current rMBP is very much GPU limited and VRAM limited.

Unfortunately, even $500 video cards like the desktop GTX 680 with 2gb vRAM (not to mention draws over 200 watts!) barely have enough horsepower to push 30 fps 2560x1600 in Crysis tells you how far we have to go in GPU tech before we'll all be routinely gaming at native retina resolution.

The dock looked good at the apple store. but gaming at full pixels will take a while two or three years. I would love to see apple put out a 40 inch tv with 3840 by 2160 pixels. My problem is My eyes are older and small screens don't do much for me. I have had surgery in both eyes and small tiny images don't work well for me.

 

[doopsie]

Hey guys,

I've fiddled around with MSI afterburner and overclocked my 650M to +115/+1000 on core and mem freq.

Yes, +1000MHz to memory speed. Result of this:

Diablo 3 runs SMOOTH @ 2880x1800
Battlefield 3 runs 60+ FPS @ 1600x900 on HIGH Settings

i'm assuming MSI afterburner writes these values directly to the gpu hardware? will the settings stay in mac osx?

 

[thomaskc]

i'm assuming MSI afterburner writes these values directly to the gpu hardware? will the settings stay in mac osx?

No, it's a software OC would need a similar program in osx

 

[dynafrom]

i'm assuming MSI afterburner writes these values directly to the gpu hardware? will the settings stay in mac osx?

Oops, I did forget to mention I'm talking about Windows 7. There really is no need to overclock in OSX.


Pic of heavy action; only 29 FPS