[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Mark]

On 21 May 2008, at 05:26, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
> Then again... with 8 pipelines it is probably "good enough" for  
> Apple's PDF system and a little bit of 3D eye candy if the software  
> is not too new.

To be utterly honest I found the GeForce 7300 GT to be fairly adequate  
for most stuff in OS X, and it did better than I expected for Windows  
games (because if the 512MB of VRAM). I bought the 8800GT for the  
Direct X 10 support (in Windows) and to give the Core Graphics filters  
in OS X a bit more legs. It's already proven a worthy investment,  
although 2 times I have had the machine lock up coming out of sleep,  
and also the fan spins flat-out on the card when it turns on/comes out  
of sleep until the video signal kicks in, which annoys me a bit but  
only slightly.

Overall, having seen what games look like on the 8800 GT, it was a  
worthy investment. I definitely noticed more general graphical speed  
in OS X, and if that's not optimised, I can't wait for the performance  
when it is :).


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