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How many have a Powermac G5?

Osgeld

Banned
The GeFORCE 7800 is ancient. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the 9400m could outperform it
actually it right up kicks a 9400m in the ... if on similar setups, at best a 9400m is on par with like a 7600LE performance and design wise

according to "pass mark" benchmarking software for pc (never used it) a 7800GS is nearly 2x as fast a a 9400m

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php

while I wouldnt claim that myself, it is pretty dramatic

 

Osgeld

Banned
a 7600LE is a 7600 with about a 25% clock reduction, half the feature count, and a narrow memory bus width, its along the lines of a MX setup but with newer generation technology (we used to joke LE stood for looser edition)

I have a agp 8x 7600GS on my now spare/bench machine (paired with a 2ghz single core amd 64 and 2gb of 400mhz ddr1 ram), and it can run something like need for speed carbon, a middle age xbox360 title at 1280x1024 and more detailed settings than the console version over 60fps

but my mothers 9400m laptop, more cpu, more ram, can barley run it on lowest res and lowest details above 10fps

would that matter to anyone if its not doing 3d, well no, but at the same token we have pretty much mastered and maxed out 2d video years ago, and things like hardware HD decompression are already started hitting things like netbooks, and was fairly standard in the upper end geforce 6 + desktop model systems

so if you want a web browser, media player, and general butler, it doesnt matter... if your concerned with power, yea the higher end 7x series will whip the crap out a low end mobile series any day of the week, if you want to start talking about 7800GT vs 9600GTm then there is a debate

 

CJ_Miller

Well-known member
I don't have a G5 yet, but I hope to within the year.

The main thing which kept me away from the was reliability, many more G5 PSUs, boards, and processors cooked themselves to death compared to other mac towers. Now that a lot of iffy machines have burned out, and they are passe enough for the prices to crash, it's getting to be about time for me to score one of the multi-core PCIe boxes. Why? Because I have a huge investment in PPC software, much of which will never make it over to intel. I can buy a decent G5 for $300 if I am patient, which is a lot less than it will cost me to upgrade my software. Getting a mini is a joke to me for multimedia work since I can't install a video encoder card, multiple ethernet cards, SCSI, more RAM, choose my audio and video interfaces, etc.

My strategy is to keep frozen systems for specific software. Just like I keep a MDD and TiBook for crucial OS 9 apps. I will also keep a last-era G5, probably with both a 10.4 and 10.5 partition for my final 64-bit PPC setup. Why screw around with an emulator is the real thing is easily available? I also have a NuBus PPC stashed away for use with certain hardware. I have a tower with special Windoze 98 hardware and software for when I need those. I use an ST Mega4 for older software which won't run on my Atari Falcon.

 

aftermac

Well-known member
I just got my G5 a few months ago. It's a single 1.8 Ghz. I got it for $125 to replace my aging G4 Digital Audio 733. The SATA card in my G4 wouldn't allow the system to sleep properly - which isn't an issue in the G5. So, now I'm also saving a bit on my electric bill, because I leave it on all the time as a file server. I just use wake on LAN to access it when I need it.

 

Quadraman

Well-known member
I use an ST Mega4 for older software which won't run on my Atari Falcon.
Brother Atarian! I have a Falcon 030 but my best ordinary ST is a 1040STF. I'm trying to track down a TT/030 but they are always like $500-$1000 when they come up on ebay. :(

 

Osgeld

Banned
I almost got that ST/ game console thing forget off hand what it was called, when it first came out, but I was shopping for a video game console and ended up with a genesis, other than that I have never seen a st in RL, I have seen a 400 tho

 

ClassicHasClass

Well-known member
I have an 1040STE with an external hard disk. I wish I could say I use it frequently, but it was sort of an impulse buy. Maybe when I get my music studio set up, I'll dust it off as the MIDI controller.

I also have a STacy, which only partially works, and is the world's most benighted thing to disassemble.

 

CJ_Miller

Well-known member
I love my Ataris, but they have been put away for most of the past year while I have been slowly moving my music setup around. I've got a box of Dr. T's software which is all amazing fun. Actually I am just taking a break from working on my little studio right now.

Only reason why I got my Ataris for somewhat cheap is that they have all been "projects", ie broken when I bought them. Makes more sense than modifying a collectible unit. My STacy is not happy... I will get that one working someday.

 

Floydy

Well-known member
Still have a 2003 PM G5 1.8 Uni which was little or no faster than the PM G4 1.42DP I wanted to replace it with. I added a Radeon X800XT and it is in daily use running 10.5x. Never quite impressed with the move to G5 even when they scaled to Quads and became more complicated.

A Mac Pro is definitely not one I can justify (maybe in 5 years when they are cheap as chips). Firmly stuck in the PowerPC camp at the moment although I do have a 2009 Mac mini just to play with Snow Leopard.

I would love to get my hands on a Mega ST/STE or TT and relive my youth using Calamus for graphic design on a Mega STE...

 
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