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Mac pro questions
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jul 2006
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So I am going to buy a mac pro (hopefully soon).
-I'm wondering when everyone thinks the new graphics cards will be available for it?
-I had heard about (and been to) a site where people were hacking nvidia cards to work in the mac pros, does anyone have the link to that site?
-Also is it possible to use non-ECC ram in it?
-My last question is this: I'd like to run 3 internals drives, 2 of them in a raid 0 for OSX and one for windows. Is that possible?
Thanks for the help.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by bballe336 
-I'm wondering when everyone thinks the new graphics cards will be available for it?
Maybe tomorrow at NAB. The bigger question is when MPs will support multi-card graphics (dual-SLI or similar). I have been hoping that too would be announced tomorrow but we will see.
Originally Posted by bballe336
-Also is it possible to use non-ECC ram in it?
No, and ECC RAM is better, that is why they use it. You can add 2x2GB ECC RAM from OWC OWC: Apple Mac G4 upgrades, Laptop Batteries, Memory, Drives for US$530.
Originally Posted by bballe336
-My last question is this: I'd like to run 3 internals drives, 2 of them in a raid 0 for OSX and one for windows. Is that possible?
Sure.
-Allen Wicks
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Originally Posted by SierraDragon
Maybe tomorrow at NAB. The bigger question is when MPs will support multi-card graphics (dual-SLI or similar). I have been hoping that too would be announced tomorrow but we will see.
I don't know if they'll be offering this anytime soon, as the current Xeon only supports 28 PCI express lanes, with one already taken by AirPort & Bluetooth.
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Thanks for the help guys. The reason I ask about non-ECC ram is because it is faster, cooler, and about 3/5 of the price. So non-ECC ram won't work at all? That's a real bummer, because $480 for 4 gigs of ram is absurd.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Originally Posted by bballe336
-I'm wondering when everyone thinks the new graphics cards will be available for it?
-I had heard about (and been to) a site where people were hacking nvidia cards to work in the mac pros, does anyone have the link to that site?
-Also is it possible to use non-ECC ram in it?
- Tomorrow.
- Strange Dogs
- No, you need FB-DIMMs, and those only come as ECC. Crucial is a good place to buy compatible RAM.
Originally Posted by brokenjago
I don't know if they'll be offering this anytime soon, as the current Xeon only supports 28 PCI express lanes, with one already taken by AirPort & Bluetooth.
SLI can be, and is regularly, done with two 8x slots (8x electrical, 16x physical).
Originally Posted by SierraDragon
Not only do you need ECC RAM, you need ECC FB-DIMMs, not ECC DIMMs. I only mention this because OWC probably has ECC DIMMs for the G5s in addition to the FB-DIMMs for the Mac Pro.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Any idea when the next big updates will be coming? What else would be in the pipeline besides the graphics cards? CPU speed bumps?
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