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dirtbikephil · Jul 10, 2004, 10:49 AM

my video card to 128mb. Now my G5(dual 2.0GHz) is estimated to ship on 7/26. That is quite a long time just for a graphics card that I probably didn't need. I just thought "why not" since it was just $45 for the upgrade.

This sucks.

BrunoBruin · Jul 10, 2004, 11:54 AM

Look at it this way: you have to wait a few more days now, but you will have the better video card for the life of the machine, and for less money than you'd spend later to replace the card. Who knows what hardware requirements might be a few years down the road, or what you might want to do with the computer? From what we're heaing about CoreImage, for example, it sounds like the GPU is going to be more and more critical to performance.

For $45, it's a great investment.

eddiecatflap · Jul 10, 2004, 12:55 PM

well , after the coreimage demo ( amazing , wasn't it !? )

i'm waiting to get a pci-express G5 ( feb ?? )

gawd , it's all i seem to do , wait

OzarkMtn · Jul 10, 2004, 03:48 PM

Originally posted by eddiecatflap:
well , after the coreimage demo ( amazing , wasn't it !? )

i'm waiting to get a pci-express G5 ( feb ?? )

gawd , it's all i seem to do , wait

I would think people by now would have learned there lesson about playing the waiting game for the next revision. If you really need the type of computing power that the G5 offers and your current equipment prevents you from accomplishing your work, you would make the purchase now (financials permitting), otherwise you are only playing the ego game of wanting the newest & fastest.

PCI-express is not going to make all that much difference. If the rationale is because your a "gamer", buy a game machine.

Waragainstsleep · Jul 11, 2004, 06:06 AM

Gaming is all about graphics cards. PCI-E will replace AGP sooner or later. You won't find many gamers nowadays running PCI cards for their main card. Waiting for PCI-E is not such a bad idea. Especially if you've seen what can be done with a pair of PCI-E Nvidia GeForce 6800s.

Maflynn · Jul 11, 2004, 06:25 AM

Originally posted by eddiecatflap:
well , after the coreimage demo ( amazing , wasn't it !? )

i'm waiting to get a pci-express G5 ( feb ?? )

gawd , it's all i seem to do , wait

If you need/want one now buy it. Who truly knows when a G5 will ship with PCI-E. I mean, I'm enjoying my G5 now, there's no reason why you can't and if PCI-E does show up in Feb, sell the current G5 on ebay and pick up a new one.

Mike

CatOne · Jul 13, 2004, 05:42 PM

Originally posted by Waragainstsleep:
Gaming is all about graphics cards. PCI-E will replace AGP sooner or later. You won't find many gamers nowadays running PCI cards for their main card. Waiting for PCI-E is not such a bad idea. Especially if you've seen what can be done with a pair of PCI-E Nvidia GeForce 6800s.

Yeah, if you want a machine that has this much gaming power, you should probably run an OS that has all the good games tho'

olePigeon · Jul 14, 2004, 10:39 AM

Originally posted by CatOne:
Yeah, if you want a machine that has this much gaming power, you should probably run an OS that has all the good games tho'

Sony's releasing a gaming PC with their own operating system. Suppose to run PC games as well as PlayStation. It's basically a PlayStation 3 in a PC tower, with more computer related features than a console.

Hopefully in the near future you won't have to give Microsoft a single cent just to play all the good games.

gururafiki · Jul 14, 2004, 12:53 PM

Originally posted by olePigeon:
Sony's releasing a gaming PC with their own operating system. Suppose to run PC games as well as PlayStation. It's basically a PlayStation 3 in a PC tower, with more computer related features than a console.

Hopefully in the near future you won't have to give Microsoft a single cent just to play all the good games.

What operating system will it have? Will it run windows games or do they have to be coded for Sony's operating system?

Big Mac · Jul 14, 2004, 02:29 PM

Originally posted by dirtbikephil:
my video card to 128mb. Now my G5(dual 2.0GHz) is estimated to ship on 7/26. That is quite a long time just for a graphics card that I probably didn't need. I just thought "why not" since it was just $45 for the upgrade.

This sucks.

It probably won't make that much of a difference, dirkbike. The shipping date is just a worst case estimate - I got my DP 2.0 ten days before then.

dirtbikephil · Jul 14, 2004, 10:52 PM

Thanks Big Mac. I hope mine arrives early like yours did.

Rev-O · Jul 15, 2004, 08:34 AM

Originally posted by Waragainstsleep:
Gaming is all about graphics cards. PCI-E will replace AGP sooner or later. You won't find many gamers nowadays running PCI cards for their main card. Waiting for PCI-E is not such a bad idea. Especially if you've seen what can be done with a pair of PCI-E Nvidia GeForce 6800s.

I can understand the drool factor of running dual linked 6800's cranking out godlike framerates with massive lightsourcing, texturing, etc. Two points tho:
1) You'd have to be a very hard core gamer to drop $3000 on a PCI-E equpped dual processor PowerMac and then drop anoth $1000 into upgrading it to two monster video cards. Throw in a display, a bigger Hd, some ram... killer machine for $7000.
2) Said killer machine would run all those killer games available for the Mac with jaw-dropping power. Y'know, games like... uh... well... um...

dirtbikephil · Jul 15, 2004, 11:08 AM

Awesome! My G5 was shipped today. 11 days ahead of the estimated ship date. Now I really can't wait to get it.