Look at it this way: 0.33G increase=800 bucks 0.66G decrease=300 bucks Sure as hell says to me buy anything outside the single base config and you get heavily penalized. The "goi…

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 I will wait and see what happens with off the shelf cards. But there is obviously some support for running multiple cards (and considering …

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Multiple 7300GTs is for multiple monitors, not SLI performance. OSX does not support SLI today. That is rediculous on Apple's part. If …

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 That is rediculous on Apple's part. If they don't support it in 10.5 I'm not going to buy a new mac. As much as I like Apple if they won't …

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 That is rediculous on Apple's part. If they don't support it in 10.5 I'm not going to buy a new mac. As much as I like Apple if they won't …

Quote: Originally Posted by Simon No offense intended, but if your Mac purchase depends on something like SLI, I think you'd be really much better off with a well spec'ed out PC…

With the Mac Pro's anemic PCIe configuration (one 16x, two 4x, and one 1x), SLI wouldn't be terribly useful.

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell With the Mac Pro's anemic PCIe configuration (one 16x, two 4x, and one 1x), SLI wouldn't be terribly useful. Great, the more I hear about …

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 Great, the more I hear about this thing the more it seems like a hackjob. I'd like to thank Apple for making an incredibly half assed compu…

I got the bone stock 2.66 Quad and will be getting more memory in the near future (when available via 3rd party). The video card should be ok for quite some time but can easily be…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Yea, it's not for you. Build a PC. I think, at least I hope, that the PCIe info I got from Simon is somehow incorrect... why put in 16 lane s…

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 That is rediculous on Apple's part. If they don't support it in 10.5 I'm not going to buy a new mac. As much as I like Apple if they won't …

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell With the Mac Pro's anemic PCIe configuration (one 16x, two 4x, and one 1x), SLI wouldn't be terribly useful. I may be wrong, but I don't …

Well I figure I can still run a 7950 if I can find the drivers. That would suffice for me.

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Yea, it's not for you. Build a PC. I think, at least I hope, that the PCIe info I got from Simon is somehow incorrect... why put in 16 lane s…

Quote: Originally Posted by saru boy Keep in mind that no Intel motherboard on the PC side supports SLI (they do support Crossfire, but at two x8 channels and not two x16 channe…

Check out Anandtech's review of the MacPro for a discussion of the chipset: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2811 Quote: A very little talked about aspect …

Quote: Originally Posted by CharlesS Nah, if anything, the price will go up, judging from recent trends. Remember when you could get a Power Mac G4 for $1299? When the G5 made t…

Hi, you can put the 7300 in any ATX Style case. Apple just used a form factor near ATX. The only thing to do is to make your own I/O shield in the back of the case, because most A…

Yes, that is probably right. 8.5 GB 8.5*1024 = 8704 MB 8704*1024 = 8912896 KB Most people just look at the 8912896 KB and call it 9 GB (when it really is only 8.5 GB) because they…

where in the boot process does the 120 crash? Just a wild guess here....my Power Computing machine has a reset button on the mother board called a CUDA switch. Try pressing that an…

Crashes after POST and during extention load Address error, Illegal instruction,and some others i cant remember

This has all the symptoms of bad SIMMs. - Scott

I am using a Newer Technology FireWire2Go card in a Lombard, I have been capturing perfect video in a number of applications including Final Cut and Premiere using a Sony DV Camcor…

I have ordered a new FireWire card from Syskey from ClubMac.com for $250 and is available now. I have not tested it yet but it has many features that the FireWire2Go card does not…