Metatron2008You're it Premium Member join:2008-09-02 united state |
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Re: [Beginner] New iMac 27"Get parallels for gaming |
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dellsweigExtreme Aerobatics MVM join:2003-12-10 Campbell Hall, NY |
Agreed - after using both on my Imac - I feel VMware offers the most seamless and best performance (mem, cpu). I have also taken my Imac (2011) to 32 gigs RAM and added an SSD as the system disk. One screaming machine |
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not quite rightI'm not cool enough to be a Mac person join:2001-06-23 Puyallup, WA |
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Or don't get either, and get an Xbox for gaming. |
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dellsweigExtreme Aerobatics MVM join:2003-12-10 Campbell Hall, NY |
I dont do gaming on my computer at all - never have. BUT there are some applications that are either not avaiable for OSX or just dont port well. I run my weather station along with its DB, a Sirius/XM streamer (no OSX version) and some network logging softwre in a VMware fusion environment on my Imac. These are 24x7 applictions and I have the displays for these on a seaprate wall mounted display |
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said by dellsweig:I have also taken my Imac (2011) to 32 gigs RAM and added an SSD as the system disk. I have a 2011 iMac. I had no idea it can take so much RAM. So how did you install a SSD? I thought there was a temp sensor on the hard drive. |
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dirtyjeffer0Posers don't use avatars. Premium Member join:2002-02-21 London, ON |
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going to install SC2 when i get home tonight...the game is a few years old now, but i still play it...i also have BF3, but it is for PC only...i still have my old PC so i can still play it on there...i am curious how the iMac will handle some heavy SC2 games (maps) i play...my PC would bog down with lag on a few heavy maps and would output a TON of heat...i am curious if the iMac is more efficient and handling the processes and keeping things cooler. |
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dellsweigExtreme Aerobatics MVM join:2003-12-10 Campbell Hall, NY |
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said by Black_Mage:said by dellsweig:I have also taken my Imac (2011) to 32 gigs RAM and added an SSD as the system disk. I have a 2011 iMac. I had no idea it can take so much RAM. So how did you install a SSD? I thought there was a temp sensor on the hard drive. » eshop.macsales.com/item/ ··· 27SSD11/The SSD goes UNDER the optical RAM - the only real limit is avaiable sims - I plan on bumping it up to 64G as soon as the 16G cards get a little cheaper - I have 4 8G cards in there now When you boot up first time with the SSD it asks what you want to do. I installed a clean system then went into bash and sym-linked anything I wanted to keep on the slower hard drive. All done I have 99G free (256GB SSD) on the SSD and 2TB on the HDD |
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Metatron2008You're it Premium Member join:2008-09-02 united state |
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Coherance, and parallels supports dx10, and is better at gaming then vmware. |
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