Mac Pro with 2 ati 5870 - HELP
I'm looking to buy a new Mac Pro in the next couple of weeks. Specs are close to basic (3.2 nehalem, 6 gigs of ram and an ati 5870). Eventually I would like to upgrade it... meaning get a westmere 6 core (bye bye applecare), ssd and hopefully a second 5870. My question to the more mac savy ppl is: would it be possible to install and operate an additional 5870 in crossfire?
I've been reading some forums saying I have to install a PSU to run the second video card since the Mac Pro won't take more than 300 watts (for the PCI slots) and some wire mambojumbo that i have yet to get any specific info about. From the looks of it, I don't think it would be hard to install the PSU in the empty optics bay but would this kill my applecare thing and would the 2 cards work from a hardware/software point of view (in OSX and Win 7)?
Thank you.
I'm looking to buy a new Mac Pro in the next couple of weeks. Specs are close to basic (3.2 nehalem, 6 gigs of ram and an ati 5870). Eventually I would like to upgrade it... meaning get a westmere 6 core (bye bye applecare), ssd and hopefully a second 5870. My question to the more mac savy ppl is: would it be possible to install and operate an additional 5870 in crossfire?
I've been reading some forums saying I have to install a PSU to run the second video card since the Mac Pro won't take more than 300 watts (for the PCI slots) and some wire mambojumbo that i have yet to get any specific info about. From the looks of it, I don't think it would be hard to install the PSU in the empty optics bay but would this kill my applecare thing and would the 2 cards work from a hardware/software point of view (in OSX and Win 7)?
Thank you.