iMac Mini Duo for Gaming?

[Dan_Wood]

I broke down and bought an iMac Mini Duo and completely forgot about how it has a 'mobile' chipset. Once I get 3DMark downloaded, I'll post benchmarks.

[Dan_Wood]

After watching 3DMark06 stutter its way through the demos, it dropped the bomb on me...

174 3DMarks.

Admittedly, that's because the Intergrated Graphics has diddly-squat for shaders and relies on system memory, but Team Fortress Classic and Halflife play like champs.

I'm looking forward to getting W2K Swerver installed on my iMac Mini Duo.

[bittersweet]

iMac Mini Duo?

I'm guessing because you said it has a integrated chipset that it's the Mac Mini? I'd be interested to see the results and maybe even some video.

I'm using Halo to test for games performance. It rocks! :D

[NeoRicen]

So far with all the Macs it seems windows and 3DMark are reporting clock speeds lower that what they are supposed to be and getting pretty low 3D Marks scores but then reports are showing that they perform extremely well in games, so I'm not paying too much attention to these 3D Mark scores.

[Frischluft]

So far with all the Macs it seems windows and 3DMark are reporting clock speeds lower that what they are supposed to be and getting pretty low 3D Marks scores but then reports are showing that they perform extremely well in games, so I'm not paying too much attention to these 3D Mark scores.

Extremly well is relative. While for example HL2 is playable (but not more) in a low resolution, Counter Strike source is totally not playable. The Mini is definilty a lousy (3d) gaming machine. The Mini's gfx is about half as fast as my PCs 3 years old at the time already mediocre geforce 5600.