Thank you for pointing out my grammar, I do apologise, I use a HTC handheld, I should be aware of my grammar. I am sorry if some Mac user will not respond to my question due to poor grammar, reminds me of my old professor "oh my god heaven forbid" I think all replies were helpful. When you go and spend $7,500 on a computer you want to learn as much as you can before purchase. The PciE and GPU are very important to me as I play hardcore games, I am truly sorry about that. I'm 35 own my own company have 45 employees, clients who are well known to you all, a great family and 3 cars that would make you drool, who am I?? who cares, but even if I have
enough spare change in my Ashtray to buy a Mac pro I would still answer anyone's questions bad grammar or not. Everyone deserves respect even if they cant spell. Blah blllaaaa blaa. So anyway thank you so much for your
replies they truly have been helpful, I will continue to post here (from a gamers point of view) and will hopefully be able to add some value to this forum regarding game performance on the MAc pro, some won't care but others like me will. Hmm I think my tag will be Mac Gamer lol. Lurgen thank you for the info and help its people like you that I choose to be on my
team because you stand out from the rest and really help others and are not biased because they spell bad, I am sure away from this post you would be an awesome buddy. Thank you and I will continue reading this thread and posting in others and hopefully I can provide help like you did for someone like me with impossible questions and bad grammar. ;D
one simple comment you made makes one simple answer. you want to play games, so you want a PC.
What I don't get is, if the Mac OS supports the 8800gt - why were the previous Mac Pro users unable to upgrade to a 8800GT to lengthen the life if their machines?
It's cards - slots and drivers. What am I missing?
Apple states on their web site that the Mac Pro is the ultimate gamming Machine, I am with Juscuziam but I think SLi and Crossfire will soon be a thing of the past, dual and quad GPU cards will be used for gamming, ATI has just released such a beast that blows all Nvidia cards out of the water. ATI HD 3870 with dual GPU's, pretty amazing. Soon they will release one for Mac. So if you dont think Mac is a good gamming system I am surprised, but if you use a Mac monitor for games no video card in the world wil make you games look nice. Mac monitors are still in the Commodore 64 days, 14ms refresh rate, oh my, Mac Monitors suck for gaming, TV and fast motion video, you need a Dell Crystal 22inch, fastest monitor on the planet, 2ms refresh rate, I have one, very pricy but nice.
Just my three cents
Apple states on their web site that the Mac Pro is the ultimate gamming Machine,
But the real question here is when does the differences between screens or graphics cards become so minute or so advanced so that the human eye can not tell the difference? Does it really matter at that point?
I am not here to debate that is easy, I like the reliability of Macs, I can list thousands, the Mac pro 8 core is beyond and PC power wise, I will invest as I am sure thousands will if it can run windows with dx10 and Pcie 16bt and later crossfire or SLI, if you are a hard core gamer you know what the Mac pro means in power for games and game servers. Why should a machine be held back buy a simple Video card? is it because MS has the 90% share of games on the PC with DX10? and Apple has been bared from the scene and only allowed to have so much technology? Rights with video card makers, seems odd. If someone has a Mac pro 8 core could you test this for me ? I would really appreciate it
We're just kinda warning you that there are much better systems out there for gaming than the Mac Pro. I've seen plenty of tests ran where people made their own PC equivalents to the Mac Pro and they've come out faster for gaming. None of them can legally run OS X but that's a trade off any gamer must sacrifice if they want a gaming machine that also has the ability to run OS X.