Threepwood Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I have a GeForce 6200 and with two monitors e.g. Exposé is slower and a bit choppy. With one monitor it's very smooth. I suppose X3100 is even slower. What chip/card do you need have smooth animation even with two displays? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79125-x3100-and-dual-displays/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hynesy Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Depends on how much you want to spend, I have a NX6600GT overclocked that does a fantastic job, thats a low end one, but you might consider buying for the future, investing in a bigger, better, more expensive card that will be current longer if that makes sense. cheers Hynesy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79125-x3100-and-dual-displays/#findComment-560568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Running dual-screen with my nVidia 7600 GS, even with a full application load (WinXP in Parallels, Firefox with 100 million tabs, iTunes, Azureus, and World of Warcraft running in windowed mode I still notice no slow down what-so-ever from Expose. Now the 7600 GS is an older card, only has 256 Mb RAM, so I don't think the card is making all that much difference. If you are not a serious gamer, I would add more RAM to your system before I added a new video card. OS X loves RAM. Windows you can add RAM till the cows come home and it won't necessarily help your system performance if you already have an adequate level of RAM. I still haven't reached the point on OS X where adding more RAM does NOT help your system performance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79125-x3100-and-dual-displays/#findComment-560648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepwood Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 Can anyone tell me how well this works with a MacBook? Is Exposé smooth even with two monitors? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79125-x3100-and-dual-displays/#findComment-560650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSn1™ Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Exposé and screensavers look slow and choppy on X3100. This was not happening with GMA950, they seem :normal:. Don´t know what´s going on with the X3100, it was supposed to better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79125-x3100-and-dual-displays/#findComment-563698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Yes, I can confirm that expose' works choppy unless you use Quartz Debug to disable BeamSync. Weird, it should be faster. How much RAM do you have? Mine is white macbook with stock 1 GB (planning to upgrade to 2.5GB for beginning)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79125-x3100-and-dual-displays/#findComment-582882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSn1™ Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I feel Exposé and screensavers choppy, and got 4GB ram. Maybe we will get this fixed in the next update. For CoverFlow and all that 3D stuff, everything seems fine. OpenGL test on benchmarks are very low, like 24. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79125-x3100-and-dual-displays/#findComment-590102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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