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hello all,
as You may be able to tell from my name i am new to the world of Macs, and so far i am loving my Mac.
i am looking to upgrade my graphics card though, i currently have a nvidia geforce gt 120 in slot one and the same in slot 2, not too sure if that means i have 2 cards or what?
i do a lot of 3D rendering with Maya, for my uni course, and i am looking to get a new card around the 1 GB, or higher, mark.
i am running 2 x 2.26 quad core intel xeon's with 16 gb of ram.
my 'Everything Mac' book says that the graphics card is a 'PCI express 2.0 graphics card with a dual-link dvi connector and a mini DisplayPort connector.'
i have seen that there are graphics cards made for Macs, and the ones for pc's, but i have been told that the newer Macs are very close to pc's now, architecture wise that is, so can i run a pc PCI graphics card in my Mac or do i have to go for a more expensive Mac one??
lastly can anyone recommend a good, but relatively cheap, ie nothing near the £1,000 , that will work with my Mac
thanks for Your help people,
kind regards michael
as You may be able to tell from my name i am new to the world of Macs, and so far i am loving my Mac.
i am looking to upgrade my graphics card though, i currently have a nvidia geforce gt 120 in slot one and the same in slot 2, not too sure if that means i have 2 cards or what?
i do a lot of 3D rendering with Maya, for my uni course, and i am looking to get a new card around the 1 GB, or higher, mark.
i am running 2 x 2.26 quad core intel xeon's with 16 gb of ram.
my 'Everything Mac' book says that the graphics card is a 'PCI express 2.0 graphics card with a dual-link dvi connector and a mini DisplayPort connector.'
i have seen that there are graphics cards made for Macs, and the ones for pc's, but i have been told that the newer Macs are very close to pc's now, architecture wise that is, so can i run a pc PCI graphics card in my Mac or do i have to go for a more expensive Mac one??
lastly can anyone recommend a good, but relatively cheap, ie nothing near the £1,000 , that will work with my Mac
thanks for Your help people,
kind regards michael