Well, my 8800GT-equipped has left the iFactory and is now headed my way on a fedex truck...
Which means, in addition to having one hell of a render tower, I'll finally be able to play all these shiny new PC games!
Now my school gives out free copies of Windows... so I'm wondering whether I should install 64-bit XP (which, according to some searches, will not install properly on boot camp), or 64-bit Vista Ultimate (which boot camp apparently has full support for).
I'm only going to use Windows for games, maybe Zbrush, and I want to take full advantage of my machine. I prefer XP over Vista, but I heard that the Mac Pro boot camp drivers don't allow access to all of the RAM in the machine if you have over 2 GB, in XP.
Will the Direct X 9/8/7 performance suffer in Vista? Or should I not even worry about that, since the machine is already very capable?
Thanks for your input, macrumors forum members
Which means, in addition to having one hell of a render tower, I'll finally be able to play all these shiny new PC games!
Now my school gives out free copies of Windows... so I'm wondering whether I should install 64-bit XP (which, according to some searches, will not install properly on boot camp), or 64-bit Vista Ultimate (which boot camp apparently has full support for).
I'm only going to use Windows for games, maybe Zbrush, and I want to take full advantage of my machine. I prefer XP over Vista, but I heard that the Mac Pro boot camp drivers don't allow access to all of the RAM in the machine if you have over 2 GB, in XP.
Will the Direct X 9/8/7 performance suffer in Vista? Or should I not even worry about that, since the machine is already very capable?
Thanks for your input, macrumors forum members