Hmm, Workstation class card huh, Well makes sense, Workstation GFX card in a Workstation Mac.
EDIT: Top-of-the-line card huh? I wonder how well this thing would be with Sims 3 on Windows.....
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EDIT: Top-of-the-line card huh? I wonder how well this thing would be with Sims 3 on Windows.....
I think you're spot on, my research turned up "Quad-buffered stereo 3D output port"
hey guys is it safe or a good idea to use ATIccelerator II on this card? Here are my settings so far:
LOL. My cooling is far from stock tthe 1st thing i did when i bought this thing was add fans. The main fan is wired to the PSU to run at 7V, the ODD fan, and the 2 fans I added behind the CPU all run at 12V:
even with those fans your going to end up cooking it if you don't put on a Bigger cooler on the GPU it self... when I said stock cooling I was referring to the GPU so I would remove the OC
Thanks for the tip. Already done. My paranoia got the best of me and I didnt run it OC'd for more than 5 minutes
I don't think so. the I get 1 CPU reading (spite it being DP) and 2 SMART temps. I'd have to look further.
Is there any programs that will monitor the SYSTEM temp and the GPU temp? Temp Monitor only does 3 of the 4 HDDs and the CPU
I don't think the MDD has the right "wiring" to read anything other than the sensors you are seeing.
Interestingly enough, virtually all 7400-class CPUs have internal diodes. These can be read with the correct programs in OS 9, but I don't think that there's any way to access them in OS X.
I installed two different programs on one of my computers(I'm thinking maybe a Cube, but don't recall exactly). One gave wildly off readings and reported the CPU temperature at 5ºC. The other gave what I thought were reasonable readings that actually fluctuated with load.
If you want temperature sensors on a PPC Mac out your rear end, get a G5.
Interestingly enough, virtually all 7400-class CPUs have internal diodes. These can be read with the correct programs in OS 9, but I don't think that there's any way to access them in OS X.
I installed two different programs on one of my computers(I'm thinking maybe a Cube, but don't recall exactly). One gave wildly off readings and reported the CPU temperature at 5ºC. The other gave what I thought were reasonable readings that actually fluctuated with load.
If you want temperature sensors on a PPC Mac out your rear end, get a G5.
You would think ATI would have a program to read it's own temps. Why does Tempature Monitor only give me ONE CPU reading and not both?
Temperature Monitor has one sensor on the CPU circuit board, and not on each individual CPU as one would like to see.
I get that. But I would like to see the temp of BOTH seperately not together. What's the point then.
Well I'm not trying to be sarcastic, but that's because the hardware is 10+ years old
Look at the CPU usage when playing a video and you will understand... Local files may work fine.
and while it may be the best, its still 10+ years old. 720p was cinema quality back in 2004ish. 1080p/1080i was unheard of. As useful as these computers are, you have to accept the fact that most of the modern internet will not work properly. It's a tough thing for me to say, but its the sad truth. If you are really set on using powerpc strictly, id recommend you get at least an 2005 PowerMac G5 with at least a 2.3GHz CPU. If you have enough money, try and get a quad and then it likely still work pretty well in the modern web (my 2005 2.3 works fine on 720p YouTube)
Im sorry Matt, but its the truth. I used to use my 1.25GHz iBook daily for school, and at the beginning it was great, but then i soon realized just how slow it was, and i gave up on using it.
Don't play it in the browser - download .mp4 either with a TFF plugin or with Leopard Webkit/ClickToPlugin.
I've just done a test, downloading the 720P trailer for Terminator Genisys:
Plays back fine on 12" Powerbook 1.33, 768Mb RAM, Tiger with XBMC v11 (with Quartz skin).
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As I've told you before, the GPU makes little difference to video playback on a PowerPC mac. You need OS X 10.6 and an Intel Mac with a supported video card to get GPU assisted video decode.
Even a dual G5 struggles with 720p YouTube as the plugins are inefficient.
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Generally yes. More VRAM will help with Quartz compositing and Core Image performance.
Aside from the overheads of outputting the above, HD video not so much.
On video playback - take a typical 10Mbps 1080p H.264 video file. My 1.83Ghz Core Duo MacBook Pro struggled to decode that in software without dropping frames and stuttering for 5-10 seconds at a time intermittently, otherwise it was running at constant 85%+ CPU utilisation. Add in a supported low-end video card with hardware decode like the NVidia 9400M in the Mac mini running OS X 10.6 and the CPU usage drops to 5-10%. Same with YouTube HD video and the supported Flash plugin (10.1?).
I've just got the bits to fix a G5, so I'll be interested to look into this further. The TiBook makes a decent fist of lower resolution video when encoded into a Quicktime friendly format.
Aside from the overheads of outputting the above, HD video not so much.
On video playback - take a typical 10Mbps 1080p H.264 video file. My 1.83Ghz Core Duo MacBook Pro struggled to decode that in software without dropping frames and stuttering for 5-10 seconds at a time intermittently, otherwise it was running at constant 85%+ CPU utilisation. Add in a supported low-end video card with hardware decode like the NVidia 9400M in the Mac mini running OS X 10.6 and the CPU usage drops to 5-10%. Same with YouTube HD video and the supported Flash plugin (10.1?).
I've just got the bits to fix a G5, so I'll be interested to look into this further. The TiBook makes a decent fist of lower resolution video when encoded into a Quicktime friendly format.