[geeks] PCI-E video cards

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjacocks at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/03/10 Mon PM 12:56:49 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] PCI-E video cards

>Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

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>>  Now... if only I could use one of those cards in my Mac Pro to boost
>>  that pitiful 7300...
>
>You know that you can, right?  I, too, have 1 1G Mac Pro, and I use an
>eVGA GeForce 7800gt 256mb.  The trick is that I have my 7300gt in
>another slot, and I boot with my monitor attached to it.  After boot,
>you can switch cards, by switching monitor connections.
>
>Bit of a pain, but it works like a champ.

Sounds like a good use for the input selection switch on many modern displays (i.e. analog to the 7300, DVI to the 7800gt (or other card)...

Lionel