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03-26-2009, 01:56 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,216
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If you buy components you have to look for available drivers AND for power consumption. It is possible to use an ATI Radeon HD4850x2, but this beast needs 285W power. I've chosen a Radeon HD2600XT, it's ok and only needs 50W. Dual monitor, rotation and so on is supported. It's crazy, it allows resolutions which are bigger than the native resolution of my Eizo moitor. I can display 1920x1440 or even 2048x1536! The pic looks a bit grainy (hope the word was the one I want ;-) because the resolution is higher than the pixel size, but it's no problem working with it. In higher game resolutions the card maybe a bit slower, Lego Indy @ 1600x1200 is too slow in special situations. But the Mac's gfx engine isn't built for games anyway.
@Beaver: If your like Amiga tracker tunes, I've converted about 200 Protracker mods to MP3, ready for iTunes, including cover and full MP3 tags. There are a lot of converted game soundtracks, Jaguar, Lotus III, Lemmings, Monkey Island and so on. The demo is resampled to 80kbit/s because my websapce only allows files up to 1.5 MB.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.
My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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