Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 Also what about video cards, can I buy aftermarket PC cards? Will I need to flash them for the cards to run properly in OSX? Then what abou…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Dell gives you back $780 if you drop from 2.66 to 2.0; Apple only gives you back $400. (1Ku price difference is about $400 per chip.) Del…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell That said, I would not take a loan to buy a computer. They devalue way too quicky to make that a good idea. I think this is situation de…

Quote: Originally Posted by krillbee good luck with that, personally i dont think the intel mac pros are going to drop in price for awhile though! My guess is that it will be h…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Off the shelf video cards are still up in the air. They're closer to being a reality than they ever have been, but there are still some possib…

Don't feel too bad. My original budget was $2500 for a computer and monitor but since the Power Mac was released I've been trying to justify spending $2600 for the computer and an…

Quote: Originally Posted by bballe336 IBut there is obviously some support for running multiple cards (and considering they are nVidia cards the support would probably be SLI). …

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…