[bleee]

has anyone bench marked the mac pro for games I'm thinking about picking up the 2.66GHz model with the ATI XT1900X video card and 2gb of memory. I want to stick windows and boot came on there for games and drive a 24inch dell wide screen lcd (2405FPW) at native resolution 1920x1200 (WUXGA, 16:10). Any thoughts am I going to be disappointed?

Some of the games I play are

half life 2 (anything on the steam resolution, wide screen mode)
world of war craft (wide screen mode)
guild wars

[Xyrrus]

Originally Posted by bleee

has anyone bench marked the mac pro for games I'm thinking about picking up the 2.66GHz model with the ATI XT1900X video card and 2gb of memory. I want to stick windows and boot came on there for games and drive a 24inch dell wide screen lcd (2405FPW) at native resolution 1920x1200 (WUXGA, 16:10). Any thoughts am I going to be disappointed?

Some of the games I play are

half life 2 (anything on the steam resolution, wide screen mode)
world of war craft (wide screen mode)
guild wars

I'm running the same setup but with a 1680x1050 screen. IMO its one of the best gaming setups you can get. That hardware is overkill for WoW, really. I ran Oblivion maxed at 1680 with no problems whatsoever. I have not been dissapinted so far; the system *by far* outclasses my current gaming box (an AMD64 3500+/2GB/6800GT)

Really the only way to get something faster would be to build a PC that can handle an SLI config. For the cost of a Mac Pro, you could probably build a dual 7950 setup with a pretty nice processor. That monitor is going to require a lot of power to drive new games at native resolution but as for the here and now honestly its a great system.

-Xy

[phantomdragonz]

I finally got BF2 on my x1900xt setup and I was floored... I had the settings on max and a 2x AA filter going and it was pegged at 100FPS (Using FRAPS) sure beats the snot out of my current AMD box, (3200+ & 6600GT) I dont know what I am going to do with that old machine... it's useless to me now...

Zach

[bleee]

In your signature you have "MacPro (2.66, 2GB, 4x250GB, X1900, 2x2005fpw)"

is there any special configuration you have for the 4x250 raid to boost the performance at all?

thanks for the reply guys I think I'm sold! Finally Apple has a good gaming rig, a rather expensive one might I add

[Xyrrus]

Originally Posted by bleee

In your signature you have "MacPro (2.66, 2GB, 4x250GB, X1900, 2x2005fpw)"

is there any special configuration you have for the 4x250 raid to boost the performance at all?

thanks for the reply guys I think I'm sold! Finally Apple has a good gaming rig, a rather expensive one might I add

I'm running 2 RAID0s. The first raid is the boot drive and my user folder; the second is a photoshop scratch disk, a backup of my user folder and other sorts of temporary files that don't need to be backed up. I have a 5th parallel drive in the spare optical bay for boot camp: you can't use bootcamp off a RAID.

I'm not 100% sure that my setup is really the best but the 1TB is far more space than I need right now so I'm pretty happy. Plus I have a nightly backup, so my user folder is protected against a drive failure. For me its a good mix of space, performance and reliability.

The only issues are: 1) can't boot windows off of a raid (since its a software driver) and 2) I can't run the firmware update. I have a spare 160GB SATA drive kicking around I'll need to put an OS X install on to do that (or burn it to a bootable CD, maybe?)

-Xy

[whirk]

defo