Upgrading old Mac Pro to 8800 GT graphics?

How's about a response like 'this guy's well known, you might want to try looking him up on google - there's lots of stuff on him there'.

But I'd be surprised if anyone I know had ever heard of him!
 
lloyd709 said:
How's about a response like 'this guy's well known, you might want to try looking him up on google - there's lots of stuff on him there'.

But I'd be surprised if anyone I know had ever heard of him!
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http://www.chucknorris.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_norris

Chuck is best known for his ridiculously bad acting, crappy TV show "Walker: Texas Ranger," and a recent, corny campaign ad he made for Mike Huckabee.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDUQW8LUMs8

Chuck Norris Approved!
 
lloyd709 said:
Thanks - I get it now!

I'm glad to say we don't this guy in England - hence I had no idea.
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I hope you got a good laugh out of it. Didn't mean to cause any confusion.
We all are wanting the same thing. Here soon I hope we'll get to chant 'Veni, Vidi, Vici'.
 
well the subject of thread has been completely derailed...... chuck norris probably bent the tracks with his bare hands :)
 
lloyd709 said:
But not the first Londoner perhaps!!!
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You're the first Londoner I've met who doesn't know who he is. Speaking also as a Londoner. You must be born after the 70s. Don't sweat it, he's a neocon bstard but the meercans love him.
Did you never see Way of the Dragon with Bruce Lee? The guy he kills at the end with the excessive chest hair is Chuck Norris - he subsequently grew a beard to rival George Lucas.

Anyway back to macs - where's my freaking 8800GT, Jobs you *&(*@(&%!.
 
Someone test the ne 8800's on the old macpro!

Wow, now that the 8800's are shipping. How long before someone places on in the old 2007 Mac Pro?
 
jemo07 said:
Wow, now that the 8800's are shipping. How long before someone places on in the old 2007 Mac Pro?
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We're supposed to receive the GeForce 8800 GT kit for our 2008 on March 4th. We also have the April 2007 8-core Mac Pro. We'll gladly try it on that but we know it won't work.

Apple states on their website that you must have the PCIe 2.0 slots in your Mac Pro to use it. That's not really the issue but the effect is the same -- it only works in a 2008 Mac Pro.

More to the point, it is an EFI driver issue. The GeForce 8800 GT currently being sold by Apple has the 64-bit EFI driver in ROM. The only way it will boot a 2006/2007 Mac Pro is if it has the 32-bit EFI driver in the ROM.

There's not enough room for both EFI drivers in the current card so nVidia has announced they are working with Apple to produce a second card -- a different part number -- that is compatible with the older Mac Pros. That's good news. When will it ship? Nobody knows but nVidia is saying "a few weeks."
 
barefeats said:
We're supposed to receive the GeForce 8800 GT kit for our 2008 on March 4th. We also have the April 2007 8-core Mac Pro. We'll gladly try it on that but we know it won't work.

Apple states on their website that you must have the PCIe 2.0 slots in your Mac Pro to use it. That's not really the issue but the effect is the same -- it only works in a 2008 Mac Pro.

More to the point, it is an EFI driver issue. The GeForce 8800 GT currently being sold by Apple has the 64-bit EFI driver in ROM. The only way it will boot a 2006/2007 Mac Pro is if it has the 32-bit EFI driver in the ROM.

There's not enough room for both EFI drivers in the current card so nVidia has announced they are working with Apple to produce a second card -- a different part number -- that is compatible with the older Mac Pros. That's good news. When will it ship? Nobody knows but nVidia is saying "a few weeks."
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Lets hope the second card is equivalent to the 8800.
 
Yeah this is getting a bit ridiculous, I just recieved a survey from Apple asking me how I liked my new computer. I don't think they are going to get the answers they were hoping for! My order still says :

Not yet shipped Product / Part No. Qty
MAC PRO CTO
Z0EM 1
Custom configuration| Show Hide
Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeo
2GB (2x1GB)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/
One 16x SuperDrive
AirPort Extreme Card (Wi-Fi)
APERTURE
APPLE WIRELESS MIGHTY MOUSE
WIRELESS KEYBD/ OS X
Country Kit


Ships by: Feb 14
Delivers by: Feb 20

Bastages! I think they are trying to rub it in! I'm going to call them at lunch.:mad:
 
Well, over the course of the last 5 or 6 weeks I have emailed and called dozens of people about this issue. I sent out information to several online news source, two of which ran stories, Engadget and Apple Insider. I have emailed Steve Jobs around 5 or 6 times and he finally responded this morning with this.

"nVidia is engineering this card, which we will distribute. They are not done yet.

Steve"

I can now finally rest assured that we will have this card for the older Mac Pros!
 
antzona said:
"nVidia is engineering this card, which we will distribute. They are not done yet.

Steve"
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Sweet!
So Steve and the Nvidia rep were not lying!!!
And Apple will distribute. Hope there is no premium/mark-up over the current one....

Thank you Antzona for keeping after them! :)
 
People are receiving their 8800's, is there still a possibility that we can haxor it to work? Or a pc equivalent card?
 
antzona said:
Why not just wait for the one that nVidia is working on?
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Because i'm an impaitent bas@#@ and want it now? :D:p Not to mention i want to hear if it may be possible to get the 9k series cards working when they come out. I'd rather have a 9k series card anyways.
 
antzona said:
If I had to guess I would say that it's drop date will coincidently be the day it is made obsolete by a new nVidia card. ;)
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I would be satisfied if the new card is equivalent to the 8800. Anything less, then all of this protesting was for nothing. The x1900 is a sub-standard POS (why Apple hassles with this card I do not know), 7300 is antiquated and the quadro 4500, antiquated and expensive.
 
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