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robo74

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Feb 6, 2004
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Rockford, IL
Ok, so we have been running some form of XP on our iMacs, and this goes out to he gamers in the bunch.

Has anyone who was using a PC before intels gave up their gaming rig for good?
AKA, you use bootcamp now instead of a seperate computer all together?

If so, how is it working out for you.

For me:
I find my 17 intel iMac to perform pretty good to where I dont really use or miss my AMD system at all.

Rob
 

iCeQuBe

macrumors regular
May 19, 2005
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CT
I gave up my gaming rig and my old mac in excahnge for an intel iMac running boot camp. I had P4 3.2Ghz with 1 gig of RAM, 2 74 Gig 10,000 RPM Raptors in raid 1 and a Radeon 9800 Pro. The iMac runs faster! I know that my gaming rig wasn't state of the art by todays standards but it ran all the games I play well. I ran two benchmark programs PC Mark and 3D Mark and both tests saw the iMac demolish the PC that I replaced The only thing faster on my old PC was the two 10,000 RPM Raptors in Raid 1. But over all the iMac has been great. I am really impressed by it's performance. I mainly play battlefield 1 and 2 and Call of Duty 2. But I have played half life 2 and doom 3 as well.

robo74 said:
Ok, so we have been running some form of XP on our iMacs, and this goes out to he gamers in the bunch.

Has anyone who was using a PC before intels gave up their gaming rig for good?
AKA, you use bootcamp now instead of a seperate computer all together?

If so, how is it working out for you.

For me:
I find my 17 intel iMac to perform pretty good to where I dont really use or miss my AMD system at all.

Rob
 

CYBER PETE

macrumors newbie
Jul 9, 2006
5
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Great thread. I'm curious as well. I'll post my results next Monday when my 20" iMAC arrives. :-D
 

kouljackson

macrumors newbie
Jul 9, 2006
24
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can we get somone to post thier specs, their old PC specs, and then a 3dMark score? Keep this ball rolling, it's exactly what i need before I buy a Mac Desktop.
 
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