cant answer any questions about this until i have one.
cant answer any questions about this until i have one.
On the now obsolete PowerPC PCIe macs I would not have gone for a Quadro FX - it's not massively faster than the 7800 and occupies 2 slots. However, with the new Mac Pros they've sorted out the 2 slot graphics card problem by offsetting the other PCIe slots one slot, so you can have a massive graphics card without loosing valuable PCIe slots.
However, nVidia have traditionally only sold their grpahics cards with Macs and NOT retail.
Best wishes,
Hugh
Altered State Ltd
according to benchmarks this week. the ati 1900 has about the same performance as the 4500.
in my experience the 4500 card did not add anything.
whereas the difference between the 6600 and the 7800 was between night and day.
7800 clearly and significantly outperformed 6600 on even simple things.
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how this pans out on macpro's remains to be seen.
no conclusion in the future should be drawn from past experiences.
both ati and apple are selling or planning to sell X1900 boards retail - possibly for both the PCIe G5's and intel.
different firmware needed apparently for each processor.