I noticed your geekbench score listed your memory as:
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Memory 2.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAMI thought the new 3.06 GHz iMac was supposed to have a 1066MHz Front Side Bus and memory speeds, up from 800MHz?
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I noticed your geekbench score listed your memory as:
I thought the new 3.06 GHz iMac was supposed to have a 1066MHz Front Side Bus and memory speeds, up from 800MHz?
Its a 1066Mhz FSB with 800Mhz Ram. Up from 667Mhz Ram and 800Mhz FSB (i think)I thought the new 3.06 GHz iMac was supposed to have a 1066MHz Front Side Bus and memory speeds, up from 800MHz?
Ok, I just went to the Apple website and found:
Does it make any sense not to run your memory at the same speed as your frontside bus?
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Processor and memory
* 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz, or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
* 6MB shared L2 cache at full processor speed
* 1066MHz frontside bus
* 1GB (one 1GB SO-DIMM) or 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GBDoes it make any sense not to run your memory at the same speed as your frontside bus?
The front side bus and memory bus speeds have been independent for some time now.
Running the RAM synchronously with the front side bus is still a good idea though.
I believe the RAM speed is limited by the chipset. Otherwise, the previous generation iMacs with the 800 MHz FSB would have also used 800 MHz DDR2 memory. Also, I'm not sure if 1066 MHz DDR2 SODIMMs are even available now, and if they are, I think that they would probably be somewhat pricey.
I got COD IV loaded on after work and played a few rounds with everything on high, less direct X which I set @ 9.
I honestly didn't notice the fan much, not to say it didn't crank up but it is nothing like my PC used to be running a X1900XTX card.
Oh, and as expected it ran COD IV great. Boot camp truly is a beautiful thing
I honestly didn't notice the fan much, not to say it didn't crank up but it is nothing like my PC used to be running a X1900XTX card.
Oh, and as expected it ran COD IV great. Boot camp truly is a beautiful thing
A reader PM'ed me and asked me to run the Half Life 2 Lost Coast Benchmark. I thought I would share the details.
I ran it twice, once default, then again after I bumped the graphics in the menu up to 1920x1200 (it was 1024x1200). I dont know if that makes a difference, but my first average FPS was 200.xx (default) then 142.x after I switched the graphics. I did upload the results to Valve, but I dont knw if there is a way to get access to them? If someone knows how, please PM me. Thanks!
I also played HL2 from the begining for about an hour, and it looked awesome. During that whole time, I never heard the fans speed up or anything.
I ran it twice, once default, then again after I bumped the graphics in the menu up to 1920x1200 (it was 1024x1200). I dont know if that makes a difference, but my first average FPS was 200.xx (default) then 142.x after I switched the graphics. I did upload the results to Valve, but I dont knw if there is a way to get access to them? If someone knows how, please PM me. Thanks!
I also played HL2 from the begining for about an hour, and it looked awesome. During that whole time, I never heard the fans speed up or anything.
wow. drool. Me want one.
(and yes, going up to 19x12 makes a big difference for the strain on the video card. 140+ fps at that resolution is great!)
After a pretty heavy WoW session last night lasting some 7 hours the noise level didn't increase at all. The very top of the casing was warm to the touch but I'd say was cooler than my previous 24" 2.4GHz machine.
Only have the stock 2GB of memory in at the moment and really I need the full 4GB but with all the eye candy on and capped at 30fps everything was silky smooth.
This is in the Mac OS, when I get a chance I'll install windows and try a
comparison; I should get frame rates capped at 50fps.
Only have the stock 2GB of memory in at the moment and really I need the full 4GB but with all the eye candy on and capped at 30fps everything was silky smooth.
This is in the Mac OS, when I get a chance I'll install windows and try a
comparison; I should get frame rates capped at 50fps.
Very encouraging especially on the silent fans after 7 hours gameplay.
Are you playing at native monitor resolution of 1920x1200?
Do you guys think it is worth to set up a windows partition just for gaming?
Or maybe some sort of emulators is good try? i know Crossover has a special "gaming edition"
If you want to do a variety of gaming, bootcamp is the way to go. If there is only one or two games you want to play, checkout crossover, but support is really limited. I tried OrangeBox and a few others on crossover without much success but others have had great experiences
If you want to do a variety of gaming, bootcamp is the way to go. If there is only one or two games you want to play, checkout crossover, but support is really limited. I tried OrangeBox and a few others on crossover without much success but others have had great experiences
NAh i was just curoius: i'll probably be playing mainly WoW in this
Still, i have read many threads about the panel problems (backlight leak, gradients etc) and that sound pretty scary to me. I Really have to go see by myself: not so confident on buying on-line considering the threads i've read
( https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/477160/ )
Yup resolution is the default 1920x1200 and at 2x oversampling everything looks superb.
The nicest thing about the 24" monitor is that I can scale the UI to 60% which gives me all my Xperl raid frames but also allows plenty of room to see what is going on, the 20" was a bit cramped.
Got the full 4BG of 800MHz memory now and in Mount Hyjal and Black Temple last night the graphics were eye-popping with spell effects upto maximum.
The nicest thing about the 24" monitor is that I can scale the UI to 60% which gives me all my Xperl raid frames but also allows plenty of room to see what is going on, the 20" was a bit cramped.
Got the full 4BG of 800MHz memory now and in Mount Hyjal and Black Temple last night the graphics were eye-popping with spell effects upto maximum.
Yup resolution is the default 1920x1200 and at 2x oversampling everything looks superb.
The nicest thing about the 24" monitor is that I can scale the UI to 60% which gives me all my Xperl raid frames but also allows plenty of room to see what is going on, the 20" was a bit cramped.
Got the full 4BG of 800MHz memory now and in Mount Hyjal and Black Temple last night the graphics were eye-popping with spell effects upto maximum.
This is great! unless i will never ever get to see the eye-popping graphics of mount hyjal and Black temple
Anyway thanx for sharing the info and gratz on new iMac ^^
I had a dual processor G5 before this iMac and tbh for the money the new Macs are superb. Chuck in bootcamp so you can still run all your PC games and it's pretty much a sealed deal.
I still can't believe how quiet these machines are, still early days yet.
I still can't believe how quiet these machines are, still early days yet.
This is great! unless i will never ever get to see the eye-popping graphics of mount hyjal and Black temple
Anyway thanx for sharing the info and gratz on new iMac ^^