800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 01, 2002 5:31 PM |
esmith |
Has anyone run VLC using the Sonnet 800 mhz card. I am curious as to the performance of the program when it runs DIVX movie files. |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 20, 2002 6:09 PM |
marcush |
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Paul, if you run metronome under OS9.x.x does it report your secondary cache running at the full 800Mhz? I had been using the macfixit hack from the thread also until about a month ago when I used the new utility at OS9forever. I'm also using the Powerlogix L3 Cache enabler under 9.2.2 and it does enable the L3 cache at 200Mhz but the secondary cache is reported by metronome to be running at only 50Mhz. In OS9.1 metronome reports it running at 800Mhz. Altivec Fractal Carbon only reports 450 Megaflops under OS9.2.2 while in OS9.1 I'm gettig 2600 Megaflops. For me at least Altivec is not working. I effectively have an 800Mhz G3 under 9.2.2. What is your experience? |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 19, 2002 4:49 PM |
paul_findley |
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John, I run 9.2.2 (a la os9forever) on the Sonnet 800/pci by using the powerlogix cache enabler. Seems to work fine. Sonnet always likes to restrict what one can do. I had to finish the 9.2.2 install from os9forever's installation folder under classic, because of the big system morsel problem. Despite finishing under classic, it boots fine. Like you, I also was using the macfixit hack for 9.2.1, but I redid the 9.2.1 using os9forever, just in case, before going to 9.2.2. No problems for 9.2.1, but 9.2.2 gave the big system morsel problem. |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 16, 2002 1:08 AM |
john.england |
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Here is the ad I responded to from dealmac.com around the middle of August: "ENPC.com offers the ATI Radeon 7000 32MB Mac Edition PCI graphics card for $96. Shipping is free for dealmac readers, giving it the lowest total price we know to be available by $8." So if you are patient it will happen again. However with the holiday season almost upon us, you should wait for the tradionally best month of the year to buy computer equipment, January! |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 14, 2002 10:51 PM |
webmaster814 |
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The best deal on a Radeon is $108.xx. There is not a better deal avalible anywhere. But please prove me wrong if you can. Michael |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 14, 2002 10:19 PM |
john.england |
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Thanks for the info Paul but I was following os9forever.com BEFORE it ever became a website back when the idea was launched in the Maxfixit forums under the old world section. They even acknowledge that there is something with the Sonnet software that only works with OS 9.1. I haven't found a hack...yet...that would bring OS 9.2.1 or 9.2.2 back to my 7600. Although 9.2.2 ran beautifully with my Newertech G3/500 mhz card and the os9forever stuff. |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 14, 2002 9:28 PM |
paul_findley |
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John, Checkout www.os9forever.com. If you have problems installing 9.2.2 (problems reading "big system morsel"), contact me. |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 14, 2002 2:41 AM |
john.england |
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I think all I did was track dealmac.com for a month and watched when the price dropped. Various retailers are tracked there so I can't point you to one site at this moment. The Sonnet IS fast! Too bad we can't use OS 9.2.1 or 9.2.2 on it though. Only 9.1...although you can use Xpostfacto to set up OS X and then install a version of 9.2.2 that only runs in classic mode under OS X. I like 9.2.2 better than 9.1...seems faster to me. |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 13, 2002 1:24 AM |
paul_findley |
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John, how about a hint. Where did you buy it? I think the new Sonnet upgrade has breathed life into the old macs, and therefore most vendors have been RAISING the price on the Radeon 7000. |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 12, 2002 6:40 PM |
john.england |
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Actually I just bought a 7000 and it was under $100 including shipping. Shop around! |
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RE: 800 MHZ, OS X, & VLC |
October, 12, 2002 3:40 PM |
paul_findley |
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VLC=videolan client, I assume. It is horrid under the setup you describe, OS X, on a 7500 machine. I hate spending $100+ more for an ATI 7000 video card, but that might be what it takes to play any kind of video (other than the postage stamp kind) smoothly on an old machine. The stock video is probably the bottle neck. |
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