What should I do with my 8800 card after I get the new 285? Should I sell or is there any advantage of keeping it (apart from running more then two monitors). I game in bootcamp and use CS4 in OS X.
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What should I do with my 8800 card?
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I'm keeping mine as a backup just in case something goes wrong with 285 GTX or when i'm going to sell my 2008 Mac Pro, it's also good to have a backup card
I'd keep it as backup too. Having had so many cards fail on me, I'd have been spared so much pain had I had a backup.
And then later down the line you can maybe sell it to someone for a decent price since they're out of production.
And then later down the line you can maybe sell it to someone for a decent price since they're out of production.
It's useful for more than just backup. 8800 has 112 cores against the 285's 240, so might well provide useful further acceleration for any OpenCL applications. My Mac Pro CUDA rig uses both 8800 and 285 GPUs together under bootcamp and does the multiGPU examples nicely, so OpenCL should manage the same under 10.6. 285 is about twice as fast as 8800 under CUDA, so you might get 50% boost under OpenCL keeping it in your Mac.