Will adding a video board make the Quadra 700 run faster? I know the IICi
shared regular RAM with the onboard video, so adding a separate video card made
it run faster. Is it the same for a Q700?
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Terry,
The Q700 has dedicated video RAM. It shipped (as I recall) with 512K of VRAM.
You can increase that to a maximum of 2 MB of VRAM. The on-board video is as
quick as it gets without a dedicated QuickDraw accelerator or PhotoShop
accelerator, and it's MUCH faster than the video on a IIci.
If you go up to 2 MB of VRAM, you can use 24-bit (16.7 million colors) video in
WYSIWYG mode on 16/17 inch monitors. 24 bit isn't really MUCH slower than
8-bit. However, the Q700 doesn't support the 16 bit video for which QuickTime
is optimized.
–Jim–
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Terry,
No, a separate video board will not make the Q700 faster. Unlike the IIci and
IIsi, it has separate video RAM and the internal video circuitry never
interferes with the processor's access to main memory.
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