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Can i insert ATI Radeon X1900 XT in the new MP?
Is this possible? With the new 2.0 pcie stuff?
Willl i lose something?And finally:
Would u guys chose the ATI Radeon X1900 XT over the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB?
I do mostly FCP – some color, but more and more SHAKE; VUE and MAYA……
Any thoughts?
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If you do, make sure its an ATI Radeon from a Mac reseller.
Apparently only they can run on the mac hardware.If you pick up a Radeon from Fry’s and install it, it won’t work.
More often than not, I hear praises of the ATI cards over the Nvidia cards when it comes to mac and mac apps.
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We have the radeon1900XT in all of our machines at our shop. All running mac-pro 2.66 quadcores and they work great.
As for whether you want the NVIDIA or the Radeon, I’d go with the Radeon. If you work in FCP’s Color at all you’ll want the Radeon, the code for color almost insists upon it and you’ll get weird playback splitting with the NVIDIAs.
Maya works fine for us using the radeon’s.
Shake seems to prefer the NVIDIA, but not the GeForce, the Quadro line; but you’ll be just fine with the Radeon (and will save some bucks too).
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Do you mean that shake wont function well with the ati 1900xt?
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no shake works fine with it, I was out of it when i wrote that, I saw shake but for some reason was thinking scratch. The color program scratch prefers NVIDIA Quadro, but scratch systems are only for PCs.
If you want to do anything Mac related I strongly suggest the ATI.
Sorry for the confusion.~T
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