Mac Pro 5.1 Aug 2010 - broken out the box

[basicmonkey]

I just shoved a 285 into mine, borrowed from XL, and it worked, well! No drivers or anything.

And my frame rate went from an awful 66fps to 166fps!

I agreed with Apple Business that if 10.6.5 didn't fix my machine they can have it back. Not fit for purpose. I suggested that if they got me a 285 then I would keep it, even offered 50/50, but that wasn't an option. So they'd rather take a £4500 machine back than stump £150 for a graphics card.

Rubbish.

[samsc]

I just shoved a 285 into mine, borrowed from XL, and it worked, well! No drivers or anything.

And my frame rate went from an awful 66fps to 166fps!

I agreed with Apple Business that if 10.6.5 didn't fix my machine they can have it back. Not fit for purpose. I suggested that if they got me a 285 then I would keep it, even offered 50/50, but that wasn't an option. So they'd rather take a £4500 machine back than stump £150 for a graphics card.

Rubbish.

get the nvidia 4800 in this case as an upgrade? - its more money but at least its likely to work

ATI stuff got broken in something around 10.6.3

[basicmonkey]

get the nvidia 4800 in this case as an upgrade? - its more money but at least its likely to work

ATI stuff got broken in something around 10.6.3

It's a lot of money, especially after forking out for the machine. And I don't see it as right to have to spend that amount of money to solve Apple's mistake.

How does 4800 sit amongst the rest of the cards?

[samsc]

It's a lot of money, especially after forking out for the machine. And I don't see it as right to have to spend that amount of money to solve Apple's mistake.

How does 4800 sit amongst the rest of the cards?

im sure its better or same as gtx285 - but i dont have one

there arent any alternative right now

gt120 is fine for doing simple things - but chokes on triple heads and hidef

[samsc]

gtx 285 on ebay:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_kw=gtx&_kw=mac