Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

27" iMac i7 first impressions

This is killing me! I have to stop checking these forums! I need my i7 damnit. I have some vacation time to burn when it gets here!

Good reports OP. Would love to see a pic of that gorgeous 27" screen playing COD4!
 
DoFoT9 said:
thats very good news! full res!? YEW.

no idea how to see FPS, probably need windows + FRAPS to view FPS.

thanks SO much for this input!
Click to expand...

Just have to enable the console in the options then hit the ` key and then type /cg_drawfps 1 and hit enter then hit the ` key again to get out of the console.
 
iMerlin said:
This is killing me! I have to stop checking these forums! I need my i7 damnit. I have some vacation time to burn when it gets here!

Good reports OP. Would love to see a pic of that gorgeous 27" screen playing COD4!
Click to expand...

Ok here is a video, and sorry i was lying as you can see in the video the only thing that wasn't all the way up was the antialiasing and the other slider i forget what it is but everything else was maxed out and was getting between 40-70 fps sorry about the video but it's very hard to control and hold it with my iphone at the same time. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpapHHkN6-4
 
nando2323 said:
Just loaded up COD4 MacOS version and had it at full res with everything on high and it was smooth as butter no glitching what so ever, and I had a movie playing on iTunes at the same time too. I'm not sure what the fps was since I don't know how to see that in COD4.

Ok at full res and everything on max i am getting 60-80 fps this is at 25whatever by 1440.
Click to expand...

on a Radeon 4850......sure you did.
 
I've had my i7 for half a day now and I have to say I couldn't be more pleased. I was playing WoW for a few hours and the temp never got higher than 114' F. On my 24' 3.06 I used to get up to 150.

I have the 2TB drive and I can't hear it at all... the computer is quiet.

Net result are the fans are quiet, the computer is cool and I'm just so damn impressed with the speed of this machine over my 3.06 6 month old machine.
 
notatroll said:
on a Radeon 4850......sure you did.
Click to expand...

Check the video son! Also there was a Time Machine backup going on at the same time too so Im not sure how much that affected the performance you can see that right in the beginning of the vid.

P.S: you are a troll. :)
 
CQd44 said:
He did correct himself later; anti-aliasing is very taxing and it doesn't surprise me too much he ran it at full-res without it.
Click to expand...
It shouldn't be that hard with AA and AF off. CoD4 is surprisingly light otherwise.

Though I'd like to see a scene with more action going on than firing from an alleyway.
 
nando2323 said:
Ok here is a video, and sorry i was lying as you can see in the video the only thing that wasn't all the way up was the antialiasing and the other slider i forget what it is but everything else was maxed out and was getting between 40-70 fps sorry about the video but it's very hard to control and hold it with my iphone at the same time. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpapHHkN6-4
Click to expand...

Very nice. I like your background btw. Where did you find it?
 
jvalente said:
Awwww maaaan. I thought you meant with full AA. what happens if you turn it all the way up? I hate aliasing...
Click to expand...

OK AA at 4x and AF all the way up 30-60 FPS closer to 30 steady though, never went below that.
 
Eidorian said:
It shouldn't be that hard with AA and AF off. CoD4 is surprisingly light otherwise.

Though I'd like to see a scene with more action going on than firing from an alleyway.
Click to expand...

Yeah I hear ya but its very hard to control it and stay alive at the same time while video taping that thing but it's definately smooth even when I bumped the AA to 4x and AF all the way never went below 30fps. Once that TM backup is done I'm gonna install XP back on it and try out AION hopefully that runs nice too. That will be more of a test then COD4 IMO.
 
nando2323 said:
Let me get this out the way right away for those on the fence about this beast.

1. It's fast, damn fast i just ripped a DVD and it took 20 minutes to rip but the encode took 15. LOL

2. Speakers sound a bit better then before not astronomically like Apple made it seem just a bit, definitely noticeable.

3. Hard Drive is louder you can hear it if it's quiet in the room.

4. Fans are louder too if you encoding all all 8 threads are cranking at full speed you'll hear the fans for sure.

5. The screen is absolutely amazing, man it makes my 24" look like crap and that thing looks awesome.
Click to expand...

Lol no noise if you had a SSD:cool:
 
nando2323 said:
Yeah I hear ya but its very hard to control it and stay alive at the same time while video taping that thing but it's definately smooth even when I bumped the AA to 4x and AF all the way never went below 30fps.
Click to expand...
That's pretty much standard fare for CoD4 on the HD 4850 then. At that resolution you aren't going to see much of an improvement until you go past say a GTX260/HD 4890.
 
Eidorian said:
That's pretty much standard fare for CoD4 on the HD 4850 then. At that resolution you aren't going to see much of an improvement until you go past say a GTX260/HD 4890.
Click to expand...

Still think it's decent for the amount of "gaming" I will do on this thing, I got a 360 for that. I bought it mainly for encoding movies and pictures and very light gaming used to be a wow crack head but I kicked that crack and now switched to AION lol.
 
nando2323 said:
Still think it's decent for the amount of "gaming" I will do on this thing, I got a 360 for that. I bought it mainly for encoding movies and pictures and very light gaming used to be a wow crack head but I kicked that crack and now switched to AION lol.
Click to expand...
What's more intensive on the Mac side right now? It's a Late 2007 game on a Mid 2008 GPU.
 
nando2323 said:
Ok here is a video, and sorry i was lying as you can see in the video the only thing that wasn't all the way up was the antialiasing and the other slider i forget what it is but everything else was maxed out and was getting between 40-70 fps sorry about the video but it's very hard to control and hold it with my iphone at the same time. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpapHHkN6-4
Click to expand...

pretty decent FPS right there! im sure thats not as intense as the game would get but its medium. im sure running around 1920xwhatever would yield some great results!

thanks so much for sharing!
 
Wow, you can seriously play COD4 maxed everything (AA doesn't matter at high resolutions much). This Mac is much better then I thought, I expected it to be like 10-20 FPS at max resolution. I so want one now :D
 
What do you get if you rip directly from the DVD in Handbrake (using say the latest snapshot) with the Apple TV preset (no additional changes)?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back