Intel Mac Graphics Cards?

[Maclarny]

Now that Apple has switched to Intel chips, what things are still holding Apple users back from buying any old PC graphics card and popping it into their Mac Pro?

[adrianblaine]

The drivers for those graphic cards aren't always available for OS X

[Maclarny]

The drivers for those graphic cards aren't always available for OS X

Is that really it? I thought of that but that seems like one meager sticking point for Nvidia and AMD/ATI.

[adrianblaine]

It is one of the ways Apple does quality control, by only having drivers for certain cards they can limit problems associated with hardware incompatibilities. They can in essence upgrade OS X knowing exactly what hardware it is being run on. If you want to use a card that OS X doesn't support, you have to get the drivers by some other means.

[pseudobrit]

Three words: EFI.

Once MS gets its head out of its ass and dumps BIOS there will be more options.

[greatdevourer]

Far as I remember, although it might not be recognised under OSX, if there's a Windows driver for it, it'll be happy in Windows under Bootcamp (I have a feeling people have been putting 7950GX2s and stuff in