What I'm looking forward to, and I hope the card is released for the Mac Pro - is the ATi 4890
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 confirmed for June release
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What I'm looking forward to, and I hope the card is released for the Mac Pro - is the ATi 4890
I'd say,
wait for the "Race to dump GTX285 ROM" - thread
That's what I'll be doing. I REFUSE to pay a 150.00+ premium for a video card (which in some cases nearly doubles the price of the card) just because it has Mac drivers. That is total lunacy.
Time to send some "feedback" to EVGA about their pricing policy.
.Thanks for the info! My order is in!
My GTX 285 is scheduled to be shipped on June 3rd.
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My GTX 285 is scheduled to be shipped on June 3rd.
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since this isn't an "apple" branded card, hopefully it won't be subject to the same delays that the 4870 were.
Looks like the delay will be minimal.
My shipping date is June 3rd.
OWC shows availability in 16 days.
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I can't read German but how about something like this? http://tgscomputer.de/shop/index.php?aid=58954
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Ordering through OWC is quite safe, I've just placed my GTX285 order through them and I've used them for memory before. Even with international shipping the price isn't actually too much higher than the UK PC GTX prices.
The only bugger is sometimes you can get caught for the VAT
Ordering through OWC is quite safe, I've just placed my GTX285 order through them and I've used them for memory before. Even with international shipping the price isn't actually too much higher than the UK PC GTX prices.
The only bugger is sometimes you can get caught for the VAT
The money to run a police-controlled nanny state doesn't come out of thin air, ya know
Might be a dumb question but I have the new ATI card in my MP. All I do is game on windows, would it be worth it to upgrade to this?
Might be a dumb question but I have the new ATI card in my MP. All I do is game on windows, would it be worth it to upgrade to this?
Well, The GTX 285 is the most powerful single gpu consumer video card made.
NVIDIA cards work better under Windows than they do with OS X.
The GTX 285 is a Mac card so I don't know if the above will hold true.
PC people would kill to have a GTX 285 for gaming.
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So I take that as a yes. Has anybody pre-ordered from OWC yet?
OWC is too high. I went with Provantage.
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Well, on the other hand, people can claim, at least for a while, that they're using a current graphics card instead of being behind as usual. The thing that is encouraging about all of these developments, though, is that it seems to be indicating that the mac graphics card market - despite still being limited to one product line - is really beginning to open up and get stronger. Regardless of how you feel about the offerings, this is unequivocally a good thing.
Absolutely!
Everytime I've bought a Mac computer, I bought the best Mac consumer card at the time; ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, ATI Radeon X800XT, and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT.
Everytime those cards were 2nd class citizens compared to the PC cards.
I belong to a couple gaming forums. The PC people would show off their 8800 GTX or 8800 Ultra or 9800 GX2.
Heck, Mac people built PCs just so they could have the most up-to-date, most powerful video cards.
Maybe, just maybe, we have finally arrived!
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