My thoughts on the absence of GTX 400 series graphics options

[Pressure]

I would agree there. I don't Apple has EVER shipped a workstation tower (even as far back as the G3 towers) with an up-to-date graphics solution. It's about time.

The Radeon HD 4870 were pretty up-to-date.

 

[Eidorian]

I'm enjoying my new 1 GB GTX 460. The HD 5770 isn't much of an improvement over the HD 4800 Series cards.

It overclocks like a dream too.

 

[jav6454]

I have 11 months and 3 weeks until I need to renew AppleCare on my nifty new 2009 Nehalem.

You will all be the FIRST to know if there is a problem.

Now all the Nervous Nelly / ATI Fanbois can go back to photoshopping / (coloring in with crayons) "fermi on fire" pix.

The cable was made from a splitter that takes a single 6 pin and splits it into 2 @ 8pin. By turning it into a single line I have greatly reduced resistance from having 12 inches of wire between PCB and card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812198016

Read all 27 reviews over 2 years...nobody reports burned PSU or Logicboard. From this purchase you can make 2 @ cables for Mac. Useful for any GPU.

Ahum,

Pros: Nice length, 6 or 8 pin

Cons: Didnt power the card properly

Other Thoughts: could be bad luck I don't know I have a 750watt Silverstone Strider and couldn't use this to power a 4870x2

I still don't think using a 6-pin and converting it to an 8-pin is the wisest idea. I'd rather have the direct 8-pin from the PSU.

I can color more fermi fires if you so wish. Just say the word. No really, if ATI came out with Fermi, I'd be making ATI fermi fires. However, nVidia did.

However would have made it, regardlessly, Fermi is the biggest fail of GPU ever. Anyone saying so is kidding themselves. If you say it's all about performance, I never knew performance meant high input for more or less the same output. I value performance as the highest output possible with the lowest input. 300W of power for marginal gains against the competitor is not performance, it's pitiful.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

I'm sure the board can physically handle more - I powered two 4870s on my Mac Pro board using 6 pin y splitter cables for about eight months before upgrading. I never had any problems. I was also running five hard drives. However, a third party couldn't do that since it would break the board's official specifications.

The Radeon HD 4870 were pretty up-to-date.

It was still only a 512MB board when 1GB was already prevalent in PC cards. The 5870 may exist in 2GB forms but they are far from prevalent and are hugely overpriced.