-
New Mac Pro released – upgraded
-
“the new Mac Pro features 1600MHz dual independent frontside buses. These 64-bit buses give each processor a direct connection to the system controller and deliver improved processor bandwidth of up to 25.6GB per second
-
Didn’t know there was a thread here about it – read it elsewhere. Will take a look.
Ben
-
And by the by, I did say that rumour sites were often wrong in my first post. interestingly, a lot of new Apple products (consumer stuff mostly) has been predicted in general by rumour sites of late – if you filter your rss feeds enough and avoid the less reputable ones. All the processor specs were accurately called months ago (when Intel announced the chips Apple have finally deigned to fit in their systems).
In lieu of anything else, I’ll take my future product ‘news’ where I can get it, and with the pinch salt anyone would give it.
😉
Ben
-
Nice to see the basic graphics card upgraded to the one in the – ummm – iMac. Perhaps that XT bit on the end means it’s really really fast compared to the exact same XT-less model in the iMac.
If I try to add the Nvidia card to the spec in the configurator I get a 3-5 week wait.
Back to the drawing board…
Ben
-
This is gonna be a really stupid question, but I’m gonna ask it anyway!
These new graphic cards, could I drop one of them into my older Mac Pro 3.0 Dual Core?
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
Dude, that computer’s so old it’s gone grey. There’s no way your six month old computer will work with these new graphics cards. You are so hosed. I am so hosed. We are all so hosed. Oh wait, all MacPros are greyish or at least silver.
Actually, I don’t know. There’s a new PCIExpress spec in the new Macs (ver 2.0) and I am sure these graphics cards are compatible with that Spec. The question is are they rev compatible with PCIExpress ver.1. I couldn’t find out much about anything this morning as the Apple site appeared that it was in the process of being updated. If I were you I’d just get the ATI one that was released for the V1 Octocore. the ATI X1900 with 512MB of VRAM.
Jeremy
-
PCIe 2.0 is backward compatible. So yeah the graphics card will work in the “old” Mac Pro even if it’s PCIe 2 (which I’m not so sure the card is).
-
I figured it would be. You don’t think these cards are PCIe2?
-
[Jeremy Garchow] “I figured it would be. You don’t think these cards are PCIe2? “
From Wikipedia:
“PCI Express 2.0
PCI-SIG announced the availability of the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification on 15 January 2007.[4] PCIe 2.0 doubles the bus standard’s bandwidth from 2.5 Gbit/s to 5 Gbit/s, meaning a x32 connector can transfer data at up to 16 GB/s in each direction.”
Cards are referred to by the lane-size connector. So the question is, does the Apple card use a 32x lane connector? I don’t know the answer, but I highly doubt it.
The main thing here is the increased bus bandwidth. So you could probably now run all four slots at 16x each.
-
incidentally, having run FCP and Leopard very successfully on my laptop, I have no real qualms now about a Mac Pro that will probably have to run Leopard. Onwards! Maybe the FCP upgrade will include multicore support in FCP (yeah, right).
Ben,
which version of FCP are you running on Leopard on your laptop?see my post for my question also.
want to run my FCP5.1.4 on a new leopard os laptop….possible…compatible?
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up