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The "waiting for my Mac Pro with 8800GT to ship" thread..

ErikAndre said:
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I called Apple to order a Mac Pro this past Friday. Sorry if I didn't clarify but I asked him if he knew anything about the 8800GT shipment delay and he told me it was because they were waiting on nVidia to ship the chips and that they would ship the first week of February. I didn't bring it up, didn't mention I heard anything, nor that I was a part of MR... I just asked if he knew anything. I asked, he said, and I posted it here. I read it before so I didn't start a new thread... I'm just saying an Apple guy told me the exact same thing. Believe what you want to believe.
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hehe I know, I was joking.

I just know that those Apple-employees that know anything usually never tell, and those that tell you they know what's up is usually full of ****, or just serves you the rumors from places like this. By all means, if you happened to find a guy that is in the know and actually talks, good for you.
 
Reach said:
hehe I know, I was joking.

I just know that those Apple-employees that know anything usually never tell, and those that tell you they know what's up is usually full of ****, or just serves you the rumors from places like this. By all means, if you happened to find a guy that is in the know and actually talks, good for you.
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Absolutely. I'm not saying I beleived him... i'm just hoping like any of us. He seemed like a nice guy, but there's really no telling where he's getting his information, as Apple reps usually are clueless about non-public information. For all I know, he could be on MR just like the rest of us. :rolleyes:
 
ErikAndre said:
I asked the sales rep directly and he's the one that tole me nVidia was going to ship the cards the first week of february. I had heard that before on the forums, but when he told me, it just confirmed it for me. Not sure if its true or not, but I spoke with him this past Friday when i ordered my Mac Pro. I'm also not sure what that means for the rest of us, but its good to know something is on the up and up.
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Er! So it is Nvidia. I hate waiting for a middle man! I hope Nvidia's not late.
 
ErikAndre said:
Absolutely. I'm not saying I beleived him... i'm just hoping like any of us. He seemed like a nice guy, but there's really no telling where he's getting his information, as Apple reps usually are clueless about non-public information. For all I know, he could be on MR just like the rest of us. :rolleyes:
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I don't know how tightly integrated Apple is with their phone staff, but usually in places like that you have a whole different rumor-mill working. Usually the higher-ups provide some extra information for techs on big problems. But that information is vague more often than not. So then the local boss will probably add his own conclusions to that, and then all the employees gossip about what that might mean and arrive at their own conclusions. At the end of the day what you hear on the phone is what the tech believes most on that day.
 
Add me to the list...!

Ordered today and it's going to ship on the 7th of March... I hope that video card is going to be bug-free!
 
OK, so here's a [not so] quick question (which may have been asked before, but there are too many 8800GT threads to sift through)....

I'm planning on running 4 displays . My computer is solely for composing music for Film/TV/etc with Logic and Pro Tools. This computer will never be used to play games. The most graphically intense I get is when I've got 3 monitors going for Logic, and the 4th (a 37" LCD) displaying a full screen video. Currently I've got a stock 2600XT (Couldn't wait for the 8800GT due to a project I had to get done). Would it be worth it for me to shell out 700 for 2 8800's or am I better off spending $150 for another 2600XT.

Basically, I'm wondering what the performance difference will be in my scenario. Will the 2600XT's be choppy? (It's not at the moment with 2 displays) Would the 8800 fix that if it is choppy with the 2600's?

[Note: In a perfect world, I'll find out the 8800GT is perfectly compatible with the 2600XT, and I can use the 8800GT for my video display and arrange window display, with the 2600 running my side displays (which usually only see still windows)]
 
Ordered mine last night, est. shipping 25th Feb.

SCLlama - I doubt in your situation you will find any advantage from an 8800GT.

And no - I wouldnt run nVidia and ATI/AMD cards together
 
I wonder of the sales guys are as informed as everyone else. At my job, the people who need to know are usually the last to know!
 
GarthAlgar said:
10.5.2 has been delayed again. Looks like we've got another week to wait...
UGH!
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Not neccesarily... according to the MR article, Apple is known to release a final version only a day after its final develeper seed. Why knows... it could be any day now. :rolleyes:
 
SCLlama said:
My computer is solely for composing music for Film/TV/etc with Logic and Pro Tools. This computer will never be used to play games. The most graphically intense I get is when I've got 3 monitors going for Logic, and the 4th (a 37" LCD) displaying a full screen video. Currently I've got a stock 2600XT (Couldn't wait for the 8800GT due to a project I had to get done). Would it be worth it for me to shell out 700 for 2 8800's or am I better off spending $150 for another 2600XT.
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If I were you, I'd stick with the 2600 and spend the money you save on lots of RAM and a fast hard drive or RAID. I believe that will benefit your intended use more than the faster graphics card.

I am currently a victim of the 8800GT delay, but I use Apple's Motion application which I hope can take advantage of the added rendering power.

- Martin
 
Still no one? I figured the earliest buyers would at least have word by now? I ordered on the 15th, still waiting. Still says shipping the 21st.
 
SCLlama said:
I'm planning on running 4 displays . My computer is solely for composing music for Film/TV/etc with Logic and Pro Tools. This computer will never be used to play games. The most graphically intense I get is when I've got 3 monitors going for Logic, and the 4th (a 37" LCD) displaying a full screen video. Currently I've got a stock 2600XT (Couldn't wait for the 8800GT due to a project I had to get done). Would it be worth it for me to shell out 700 for 2 8800's or am I better off spending $150 for another 2600XT.

Basically, I'm wondering what the performance difference will be in my scenario. Will the 2600XT's be choppy? (It's not at the moment with 2 displays) Would the 8800 fix that if it is choppy with the 2600's?

[Note: In a perfect world, I'll find out the 8800GT is perfectly compatible with the 2600XT, and I can use the 8800GT for my video display and arrange window display, with the 2600 running my side displays (which usually only see still windows)]
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I concur with AviationFan. if you're not doing imagey stuff that will be boosted by the 8800GT then it isn't going to make a difference. It is plenty powerful enough to deal with the general OS requirements and Logic isn't going to start pushing it, unless you have some super graphical plugins to render 3d views of the music in stupendous detail which might be very cool but entirely pointless ;) A quick play on my calculator shows that to drive a 30" display at native resolution takes about 12 meg of video memory, so even if you are using those the graphics card is going to have plenty of free memory and little using the rendering power. OSX does seem to be loading more and more on to the card as time goes by, but it's not enough to cause any corcern to this type of card for the forseeable future.

Logic's performance will be more effected by processors for running a high count of plugins, memory for keeping plenty of samples loaded and hard drives for playing lots of simultaneous audio streams, so spending on those will yield the greatest benefits.
 
CST said:
Still no one? I figured the earliest buyers would at least have word by now? I ordered on the 15th, still waiting. Still says shipping the 21st.
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I think the earliest one says shipping on the 12/13th (just one week). We'll see!
 
I use motion quite a bit and it's pretty dog slow on my current G5 2.0 with the x800xt card. As soon as the MP2.8 gets here with the 2600 and is all set up I'll post my subjective but honest real world perception of differences in things like:

Aperture responsiveness
Motion timeline playback
FCP " "
Compressor DV to MP2 compression

going from G5 d2.0/x800 to MP octo2.8/x2600. Then when I get the 8800 in there I'll do it again to compare the 2600 to the 8800.

Now obviously the new rig going to be much faster even with the crappiest base card- but I know I'd be interested to read someones descriptions of these differences regardless so I'll post em.

When I went from the middle of the road card in the PPC to the x800xt the GPU upgrade made a gianormous leap in performance in Aperture and Motion.

It will be especially interesting to note the difference between 2600 and 8800 when that comes in.

It's also nice to see that the 2600 will have a market when I sell it for people with 3+ monitors.
 
Ordered!

Ordered mine last night - (2-4-08) dual 2.8's, standard ram, 500 GB hard drive, 8800 GT:

Ships by: Feb 26 to arrive March 3.

My much-loved and long-suffering G4 Quicksilver finally gets to relax and just do iTunes, photos & web surfing. (I can almost hear it sigh...) The new machine? Running CS3 Production & Toon Boom with a 20" Cintiq. Going to be some fun.
 
The new ship dates assigned to recent purchases suggest nothing has changed,,, everything is status quo, AOK, on track. Geesh guys, the clock doesn't tick any faster by looking at it. ;)
 
Two 8800GT Cards Eat 220 Watts

SCLlama said:
OK, so here's a [not so] quick question (which may have been asked before, but there are too many 8800GT threads to sift through)....

I'm planning on running 4 displays . My computer is solely for composing music for Film/TV/etc with Logic and Pro Tools. This computer will never be used to play games. The most graphically intense I get is when I've got 3 monitors going for Logic, and the 4th (a 37" LCD) displaying a full screen video. Currently I've got a stock 2600XT (Couldn't wait for the 8800GT due to a project I had to get done). Would it be worth it for me to shell out 700 for 2 8800's or am I better off spending $150 for another 2600XT.

Basically, I'm wondering what the performance difference will be in my scenario. Will the 2600XT's be choppy? (It's not at the moment with 2 displays) Would the 8800 fix that if it is choppy with the 2600's?

[Note: In a perfect world, I'll find out the 8800GT is perfectly compatible with the 2600XT, and I can use the 8800GT for my video display and arrange window display, with the 2600 running my side displays (which usually only see still windows)]
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I also run 4 monitors. You can't run two 8800GTs due to 300 watt limit - unless those are the only cards inside plus perhaps a very low wattage card of some kind. Each is 110 watts. With your ProTools card in there I don't think two 8800GTs will work. I plan on using one 2600XT (50Watts) + one 8800GT since I have experience of ATI and NVIDEA cards working together in Quad G5. So I'm hoping this will also be the case with the new odd couple pair.

Otherwise two ATI cards would have to be the way to go. I'm also using the RAID card and an Instensity Pro card. I'll let you know if they do in fact work together after my 8800GT arrives in mid March. Meanwhile I bought my 3.2GHz MP with two 2600XT cards. Hope I don't have ATI card problems like are being reported on another thread.
 
Thank you to MacRoom, eviltobz, aviationfan, and Shurran for the quick respones. This is very good to hear. You just saved me quite a bit of money :D
 
MacRoom, you'll have to keep us posted (maybe start a new thread) and let us know how friendly the 8800 and 2600 are together, as I'd like to eventually get four screens and would just like to add the 2600.
 
Waiting on a 3.2 w/ 8800 GT and fibre channel card. Already have received AJA Kona 3 w/ breakout box, 18 GB RAM, and 3 1TB Hitachis.
 
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