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NVIDIA 8800 GT (1st Generation) Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro!

Alican said:
i would have thought that even if there was a way to use multiple GPUs, the cards would have to be the same make
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If each card drives different monitors, no, they don't. If they are driving one monitor in SLI, yes, they do.

OS X drivers don't support SLI anyways, so it doesn't really matter.
 
I'm still _really_ amazed that if you want to put your über expensive octocore to do some real work with FCS2 in the middle of 2008, you'll have to buy a GPU introduced in January 2006 which costs $650 to get half a Gig memory with GPU...

If I remember correctly Apple used to be State of the Art sometime in the history...
 
Does anyone know if the 8800gt running in the new Mac Pros has overheating/excessive noise like the X1900xt and if so to either of those problems, are the Artic Colling kits compatible with the Apple version of the 8800gt?
 
toke lahti said:
I'm still _really_ amazed that if you want to put your über expensive octocore to do some real work with FCS2 in the middle of 2008, you'll have to buy a GPU introduced in January 2006 which costs $650 to get half a Gig memory with GPU...

If I remember correctly Apple used to be State of the Art sometime in the history...
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Are you being sarcastic or are you just confused? 😉
 
Just became a beta tester! (apple says it won't leave the warehouse for almost a week.) Must be a backlog of these things already.

I'm a 10.4 Tiger holdout. I will give up Tiger when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.... Because my library is all tiger. My 1900 graf card is pulling two 30 inch screens and the heat is incredible. The Woodbridge is cooking at 170F
degrees and the 5gig memory bay is showing 167 degrees using google earth (spec is 180 max according to temp moniter program.)

The heat off the moniters is like a stove unit too. I have to sit around in my underware just to get near the thing and it still melts my eyeballs.

Since I had my first screenfreeze (two months out of warrentee) I know from others my 1900 card is probably not long for this world.

I really hope this sucker works with tiger 10.4.8
Any guesses if I screwed up?
 
Alican said:
i would have thought that even if there was a way to use multiple GPUs, the cards would have to be the same make
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I have 1900xt & 7300gt and FCS2 or CS3 does not work well with monitors attached to both.

I'd appreciate if anybody had any experience with 2 x 1900xt?
 
Toke,

I actually have two 1900s running three 30inch screens in asia. I tried to correct that in the post but failed edit. 😕

I was going to try the fourth 30 inch screen, but like I said the heat is so incredible, and I am up against thermal limits already with the fans reving way up. I'm afraid I have cooked my 1900 card that's pulling two of the flatscreens. I talked to applecare who patched me through to a tech who agreed I'm way too hot. Of course he wants me to bring the whole thing in, but my machine is across the ocean and I'm disabled anyway so that's out.

But the 1900 are vertiable hair driers and are cooking the whole macpro imho. I'm going to move the whole affair in front of an airconditioner and pipe a hose with a fan to the front of the macpro.

Expensive and noisy, but I can't get parts in the country I'm in. This has become an expensive experiment!
 
I'm confused... so much waiting for the 8800gt and now according to barefeets it's a POS? I ordered one yesterday without reading this but I'll keep my x1900 installed for the moment
 
April 15th, 2008 --- You can now order the "legacy" version of the GeForce 8800 GT in a kit form for 2006/2007 Mac Pro owners. When you visit the Apple Store USA, click on "Displays" in the left column and look for the Geforce 8800 GT labeled "1st Generation."

Let me remind you that our testing has shown this to be a strong 3D OpenGL gaming card but a weak Pro App card (Motion, Aperture, FCP). We believe a Mac OS X compatible Radeon HD 3870 would perform better for Pro Apps. We are urging ATI/AMD to release such a card and will alert you if and when that happens.


From Barefeats.
 
It's finally happened! I can't wait to see what else comes out next, but im glad the card is here finally.
 
dr strangetron said:
Just became a beta tester! (apple says it won't leave the warehouse for almost a week.) Must be a backlog of these things already.
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The first batch is shipping out today (1 day earlier than the 3-5 days quoted the day they became available), so the 3-5 days is probably 3 days at this point. The backlog is very likely more getting these things boxed and shipped than people buying these in droves.

dr strangetron said:
Since I had my first screenfreeze (two months out of warrentee) I know from others my 1900 card is probably not long for this world.

I really hope this sucker works with tiger 10.4.8
Any guesses if I screwed up?
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No idea, actually. It might work using the same driver as the 8600M GT in the MBP, but it might not. It might include Tiger drivers, it might not. Until someone gets the thing in hand, we won't know for sure.

I'll certainly post when mine arrives tomorrow though. 🙂
 
I'm really glad they've come out with this card as I have no faith in the X1900XT, I've had two replaced so far due to overheating/screen freezes. While Apple have been excellent in replacing the cards, I'm worried that once outside warranty I'd have to stump up £270 for a card which is likely to fail again. I'm hoping the 8800GT will be more reliable, I've rarely had problems with NVidia card designs in the past. The extra performance for gaming is of course welcomed 😉
 
Toke, and other regulars

Toke,

No I don't have any graphics intensive stuff going on yet. Googe Earth is it. I'm A CS3 nebie. That's why the duel 1900 overheating issues are worrying me. I haven't even begun to tax the card and it appears to be faltering. I must reveal that I'm at 80 degrees office temperature already in the Philippine Islands before anything gets turned on. But still, the fragility of duel 1900 cards is disturbing. I see a failure on the horizon.

I must digress, and thank all you regulars for your in-depth knowlege of apple issues: without your expertize and vast operational experience I would surely be lost.

Thank you for helping me.

Yours truely,


dr strangetron
 
Attn: Krevnik

Dear Krevnik,

Thanks for your response.

Please let us know the technical thruput you derive with your card. I ordered mine as a back up in Asia, and do not intend to install it untill one of my 1900's dies.

Cheers,

strangetron
 
I'm not sure what forum I saw it on, but there was a discussion on a forthcoming ATI 3870 card for Mac Pro. You may want to hold out for a bit yet, especially if you're a Pro App user.

I'll see if I can dig up the original reference.
 
OZMP said:
Australia.
was showing shipping 23rd, but i got the that today, and a courier con note. 😀
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Well, keep us posted. It turned up about 24 hrs late on the UK store so mine could ship today, I suppose. Mind you, I've waited this long. Another week's nothing...

osxpwnsvista said:
I'm not sure what forum I saw it on, but there was a discussion on a forthcoming ATI 3870 card for Mac Pro. You may want to hold out for a bit yet, especially if you're a Pro App user.

I'll see if I can dig up the original reference.
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The only references that I've seen to this couldn't even be classed as rumours. Just wishful thinking!
 
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