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yeah, dont get the x1900
Hello,
recently I have been trying to figure out if I should get the x1900 over the 7300 that came with my mac pro, well guess what? I got one and the increase in speed was almost nothing. I had a few projects that I was trying to get running realtime, and I timed out how long it took to play them prior to installing the x1900 and then after and there was almost no change. For example, I had one project that took 55 seconds to play using my 7300 and 50 seconds with the x1900. I was very dissapointed and took the card back to the apple store ( i was suprised that they took it back ). Not to mention that $400 is way too much for a card that is older and costs less than half that for PC. So there you have it folks, as of right now the 7300 is almost as good as it gets, don’t upgrade.
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Why can’t we use the graphics cards that PCs can use?
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
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apple puts some software on the video card bios that allows it to be recognized as an official apple card. Basically it’s price gouging. You can google easily and find a few people that will give you the ROM so that you can flash a PC version of the X1900, however it’s not full proof. I just got boot camp working this weekend also, so I may just put a pc card in and see if it will boot with it into windows (i’m not sure if the mac pro bios is what reads the video card bios or if it’s software within osx)
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So in other words, you’d have to have some way of fooling the Mac into thinking that whatever graphics card you had, was an official Apple card? I’m just wondering, because I would be willing to drop some big change on a cutting edge graphics card, especially with Motion 3 out now, and it’s new Camera 3D functionality.
Though, I’m waiting until the first update for FCPS2 to come out before I upgrade. Everything is working like clockwork right now and I don’t want to risk anything yet.
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 -
BTW, I got the X1900XT installed in my Mac Pro when I ordered it from Apple.
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 -
For games it will make a huge difference.
https://barefeats.com/quad15.html
For Motion 2, the difference is less than impressive:
https://barefeats.com/quad12.html
I haven’t seen specs for Motion 3 or Color yet.
-Russ
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This really drives me nuts…
I’m holding off an a Mac Pro simply because the graphics cards are outdated (**really** outdated). Apple has to do better than this. I have a G5 Quad with a GeForce 7800 GT and if this were a PC (of which my company has several) I would have swapped it out for a $500 8800 a long time ago.
Instead I’m sitting around on my hands waiting to buy an 8 Core Mac Pro wondering when the hell they will put a graphics card in there worthy of the machine.
Graphics cards should be as easy to install as any other hardware – this sucks.
-Greg
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wow..i complain a lot (just noticed I complained about the same thing a couple posts down last week)
-G
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Well, that’s just it. You have every right to complain. I mean, hell, I still don’t understand why Apple isn’t making it easy to change graphics cards? What do they have to gain from narrowing the field to outdated graphics cards?
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 -
I want to hack the BIOS so I can run whatever card I want. How do I do it, where do I go to get information, etc…. Am I p*ssing up the wrong tree?
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 -
Yeah this really sucks. The same exact card won’t work on a mac because of software? That really is bull.
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