Enough power?
I was wondering if a 20inch iMac with the following specs would be able to handle Halo, or the UTK04, and when I say handle I mean, could I play it like it was intended to be played.
? 512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 2 DIMMs
? 80GB Ultra ATA drive
? Keyboard/Mac OS X - U.S. English
? 20-inch flat-panel LCD
? 1.25GHz PowerPC G4
? 4x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
? NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
? 512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 2 DIMMs
? 80GB Ultra ATA drive
? Keyboard/Mac OS X - U.S. English
? 20-inch flat-panel LCD
? 1.25GHz PowerPC G4
? 4x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
? NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
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But I will say, as your post indicates that you might be aware of, the iMac is not a heavy-duty gaming machine.
You would want a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro or XT.
Looks like a G5 is your best bet... or just build a cheap Gaming PC...
Originally posted by Messiahtosh
Thats total BS, I play games like Warcraft and Unreal, Ghost Recon, and more. All with full graphics shit to the max, and I have a Rev A flat panel iMAc 800 G4 with a superdrive and 512 MB of RAM and a 32 MB Geforece 2MX card. It runs like a dream.
UT2k4 and halo are NOT games like those(hog factor)
If you want games, build a gaming PC (less than $1000), or buy a console. If you insist on playing games ON YOUR MAC, then get a PowerMac G5 with a Radeon 9800. Don't settle for less.
Of course, you could just buy a cheaper Mac that won't be used for games, and use the money you save to buy two or more consoles and a buttload of games.
Originally posted by Messiahtosh
Thats total BS, I play games like Warcraft and Unreal, Ghost Recon, and more. All with full graphics shit to the max, and I have a Rev A flat panel iMAc 800 G4 with a superdrive and 512 MB of RAM and a 32 MB Geforece 2MX card. It runs like a dream.
Excuse me?
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
Excuse me?
I think what he was trying to say is that is total BS. Whether or not is true or not - who knows
Personally I could care less, I would just buy a PS2 and keep my machine free of clutter.
Originally posted by jwri004
I think what he was trying to say is that is total BS. Whether or not is true or not - who knows
Personally I could care less, I would just buy a PS2 and keep my machine free of clutter.
Gran Turismo 4!
Anyway, I play War3 on a TiBook 1Ghz OK. medium/medium/1280x1024. 1GB RAM and 64MB Radeon 9000. Other than that, it's mostly EV Nova or RockNES/SNES9X. . . or, of course, GT4! I think Unreal and those other games would stress the crap out of it, though, based on the benchmarks I've seen. A 9800 or 9600 with a G5 will kick ass though.
1.33 GHz G4 (2MB L3) / 1.5 GB RAM / Radeon 9800 128 MB / WD Raptor
Sure I don't have DDR, but IIRC the internals of the G4 chips only run at 133 MHz. But thats fine, why? Because I use my Mac for everything including making money as well as playing some games. But soon I'll be building a SFF gaming PC and coupling it with an IOGear Multimedia KVM.
My Mac is the best creative tool I own, but for gaming its easier (and cheaper, and faster) to build a PC. That or consoles. Both good choices.
If you had the money for a G5 go that route. AFAIK ATI Still doesn't have 3D Overrides for the BTO cards so it may be better to go with a lowend card, sell it off, and pickup a retail 9800. The ability to anti-alias and anisotropic filter any application that uses 3D (including modelers, screen savers, hell even iTunes visualizations) is a major plus.
Heard eventually ATI would migrate the 3D Override functionality to BTO cards, but that isn't their target (they make less money that way). And forget about any possibility for Nvidia equivalents.