mac pro sli question

hey guys ,

just looking into purchasing a mac pro and one of the main uses will be gaming in windows (lol dll h3ll) so I was wondering if it is possible to buy an extra 8800gt to run in sli while in windows and as only one gpu in osx.

thankyou for your help

Hi!

Sorry to say, I'm sure you can not SLI Video cards in the Mac pro. But you "might" be able to run SLI in Windows, if you do a google search for "SLI in Mac Pro in windows" or somthing like that.

If I'm wrong some one will tell you.

Also if you getting a new computer and the main use will be for gaming, are you sure you want to get a Mac Pro? Large amount of change to give up for a gaming computer.

But all this said, I just installed XP on my Mac Pro and installed a few games on it last night. I gave "Sim City 4000" and "Left 4 Dead" a go last night. Sim City works amazingly better than on the Mac, Left 4 Dead, looks really good, both games don't slow down no artifacts with the graphics running at full tilt.

I have 5Gb of RAM and one ATI 1900XT card.

See if this helps?

SLI in Mac Pro. It's True Onlooker!! - AppleInsider

satrop said:

See if this helps?

SLI in Mac Pro. It's True Onlooker!! - AppleInsider

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Thanks a lot mate! That seems to have helped. Would still be interested in stories from anyone else who has done this...


BTW I'm not switching from a pc, I've always run osx just never bought a desktop. I'm aware that it's not the greatest gaming machine but I doubt I could live without OSX considering I also do a decent bit of music work.

I'll rep u if I can figure out how lol

No problem! Let me know if you have any luck on get the SLI to work, I might have a read up on it and give it a go some time during the week, as I have two extra cards not doing anything.

And yea, its net easy to find the rep thing. But on the left under you name there is a set of icons, a red dot, tick cross and "!". the tick cross in the thing you click on to ad to peoples rep.

Have a good one!

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