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11-19-2008, 12:39 AM
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Super Techie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 403
|  Can you really game on an iMac?
Ok so my friend recently got an imac with a 3.06Ghz CPU , 4 gigs of RAM, and an 8800GTS. He got windows XP and put it on his computer with bootcamp. He now got crysis and played it on his computer. I just think it is sorta weird that he can play it on his computer. He plays it on medium/high-ish setting.
What do you guys think about this? | 
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11-19-2008, 03:46 AM
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Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: australia Posts: 717
| Re: Can you really game on an iMac?
i supose, it worked on his imac thoguh did'nt it??.
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11-19-2008, 06:23 AM
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Biostar Stole my heart Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Under Zmatts bed Posts: 2,175
| Re: Can you really game on an iMac?
It worked cause he had an 8800 GTS. Gaming has very little to do with OS in all honesty, it has EVERYTHING to do with the graphics card. While the CPU also plays an important factor as well.
The only reason Vista is better at gaming, is because it offers Direct X10.
Macs are usually horrible at gaming because not many macs come with powerful or even decent GPU's.
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11-19-2008, 11:24 AM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,539
| Re: Can you really game on an iMac?
^This is true.
The GPU is the big factor here, not really the OS. A number of games are cross-platform or work via Parallels VM Ware, etc. or just Bootcamp Windows. The issue really is what GPU's are available for the Mac and they aren't many, plus most models come with poor or modest ones at best.
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11-19-2008, 08:16 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 403
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Yeah thats what i was thinking. But I didn't know that a 8800GTS could play crysis on a 30 inch screen. But I knew it had to do with the hardware.
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11-19-2008, 08:23 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 5,893
| Re: Can you really game on an iMac?
iMac are not really game machines. I got a friend that is a Mac user, however he as a PC just for playing WoW.
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11-20-2008, 01:02 AM
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Super Techie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 403
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Yeah I know their not for gaming.
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11-20-2008, 03:32 AM
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Biostar Stole my heart Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Under Zmatts bed Posts: 2,175
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Originally Posted by Keyboard Cowboy  iMac are not really game machines. I got a friend that is a Mac user, however he as a PC just for playing WoW. | lol, he has a PC for WoW? I m pretty sure that Macs should at least be able to handle WoW.
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11-20-2008, 09:02 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South Posts: 19,920
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Sure you can. And you can race Daytona in a Pinto, too.
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11-20-2008, 09:07 AM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,376
| Re: Can you really game on an iMac?
Quote:
Originally Posted by jester070993 Ok so my friend recently got an imac with a 3.06Ghz CPU , 4 gigs of RAM, and an 8800GTS. He got windows XP and put it on his computer with bootcamp. He now got crysis and played it on his computer. I just think it is sorta weird that he can play it on his computer. He plays it on medium/high-ish setting.
What do you guys think about this? | I think he wasted his money. You don't buy Macs to play Crysis, you buy them to use photoshop. Games are a pc's job. | |
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