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Re: Performance?
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2011, 02:29:11 AM »
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If you dont use application that need a heavy usage of cpu maybe 400mhz are enough, the bad side of the powermac g4 400mhz is the ati rage.

I think he mentioned that it had a Radeon 9XXX video card. An ATI Rage128 would be pretty painful (no 3D), but I understand the 2D driver works pretty good.
When compared to an Efika, a 400Mhz Powermac with 512MB of memory would definitely be superior.
And there's always the possibility of adding a CPU accelerator card.
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Re: Performance?
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2011, 08:29:52 AM »
Yes, I was wondering how efica runs morphos having only 128mb and 400mhz
 

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2011, 08:34:43 AM »
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Didn't know anyone still used 1ghz pentium3 boxes???

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Well I'm using pentium3 laptop as (headless) router + downloader + file server
 

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2011, 12:13:38 AM »
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I think he mentioned that it had a Radeon 9XXX video card. An ATI Rage128 would be pretty painful (no 3D), but I understand the 2D driver works pretty good.
When compared to an Efika, a 400Mhz Powermac with 512MB of memory would definitely be superior.
And there's always the possibility of adding a CPU accelerator card.


I'm going to buy Digital Audio model - 533 MHz on faster bus than older 400 Mhz models.
It has Geforce video card. I understand It won't work at all?
I want to change it to Radeon 7000 as it's cheap and easier to find than 9xxx models.
On MOS website Radeon 7000VE is listed as compatible. What is 'VE'? Will standard 7000 (non-VE) work?
(I mean Mac edition, I don't want to flash PC cards).
I'm not actually big fan of 3D games and I used to have R7000 on i386 linux laptop and I was pleased with its performance.
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Re: Performance?
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2011, 12:36:39 AM »
Forget it.  I'll go for 8500/9000 :)
 

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2011, 01:28:21 AM »
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Forget it.  I'll go for 8500/9000 :)


Good pick. :)
 

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2011, 01:42:10 AM »
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Didn't know anyone still used 1ghz pentium3 boxes???


Well I'm using pentium3 laptop as (headless) router + downloader + file server


Currently I'm trying to  resurrect Pentium II 400MHz SONY VAIO 10inch notebook :biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:
 

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2011, 01:58:39 AM »
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Forget it.  I'll go for 8500/9000 :)

Yep, much better performance than the 7000. Right now probably the two best options.
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Re: Performance?
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2011, 04:17:36 AM »
Well after reading this I am now tempted to try MorphOs. I just won an ebay 1.42 dual G4 so will be tying it soon!
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Re: Performance?
« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2011, 04:52:33 AM »
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Well after reading this I am now tempted to try MorphOs. I just won an ebay 1.42 dual G4 so will be tying it soon!


Nice system, I hope you got a good price.
Since trying MorphOS is free, you've got nothing to lose.
What video card is installed in the MDD you bought?
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Re: Performance?
« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2011, 05:02:53 AM »
I got it for $95

Has a Radeon 9000 pro

Looking forward to it

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Nice system, I hope you got a good price.
Since trying MorphOS is free, you've got nothing to lose.
What video card is installed in the MDD you bought?
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Re: Performance?
« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2011, 05:20:47 AM »
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I got it for $95

Has a Radeon 9000 pro

Looking forward to it

Yep, great price, good video card for MorphOS, you did well.
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Re: Performance?
« Reply #26 on: March 30, 2011, 05:34:17 AM »
I have a 500 MHz "GigaBit Ethernet" PowerMac with R9000. It is magnitude faster than Efika + I have 1152 MB RAM in it instead of 128, which does make a difference :-). Youtube movies play smoothly in overlay mode. I've not tried some higher resolution movies however.

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #27 on: March 30, 2011, 09:30:14 AM »
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I just won an ebay 1.42 dual G4 so will be tying it soon!


Does MorphOS make use of dual processor?
 

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #28 on: March 30, 2011, 10:51:13 AM »
Off topic a bit, but I used to play full screen standard 700mb DVDrips on a 266mhz P2 mobile processor with just 192mb RAM. It did have the Mobility Rage Pro ATI mobile chipset however but this is far inferior to any desktop machine's GPU card in 100s of Mhz CPU speed.

That was with Windows 98.
 

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Re: Performance?
« Reply #29 from previous page: March 30, 2011, 12:27:01 PM »
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Does MorphOS make use of dual processor?

nope
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