How would this affect perfromance of graphics chips and other hardware?
Would Tiger recognize all devices and cards?
Well, for starters, it probably only runs on Intel-based systems (so my AMD would be out of luck.) As for vid cards, I'd be reasonably sure it would work with most recent ATI cards (as the Catalyst drivers, on the whole, are the same) since Apple's been using thoe for ages; I'd be less sure abou Nvidia or Intel integrated graphics. As for sound and such, since Apples doesn't support add-in sound cards (a la Sound Blaster) they probably wouldn't function since there wouldn't be a driver, obviously, to support them. But most USB devices probably function fine and then you're really just left with how well would the networking functions operate--I'd be willing to guess that most, basic, intgrated networking cards woulud work fine (but that's only a guess.) Believe me, if I had an Intel box laying about, I'd be doing this right now :(