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<blockquote data-quote="Mathiau" data-source="post: 580057" data-attributes="member: 19236"><p>1. You need windows Vista to work with DX10 and the 8800 line is all DX10 based, same with ATI 2900 and up line.</p><p></p><p>2. I dont think the mac based motherboards support SLI (it is bios based)</p><p></p><p>3. crossfire the same, it has to be supported in the chipset and in the bios </p><p>and it would be either SLI or Xfire, it would not support both, for it to work with SLI it would have to have an NVIDIA based chipset (680i/780i) which i dont beleive Apple has, for Xfire an intel or ati based chipset.</p><p></p><p>3.The PCIe is likely 32 total, so it would probably be 16/8/4/4 or it could be 8/8/8/8</p><p></p><p>but it would not work in quad xfire or quad SLI (which is more or less garbage anyways due to limitations of directx not being able to call more then 3 frames ahead so the 4th cards is basically a waste, why triple SLI is /has been released.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The 8800GT is plenty for most games out now (except poorly coded ones like Crysis) but most all other games will run more then fine in it that Apple has out now for OSX.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Your Mac Pro wont run DX10 unless you install Vista in bootcamp. (directX isnt in OSX it is a windows API only more or less)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mathiau, post: 580057, member: 19236"] 1. You need windows Vista to work with DX10 and the 8800 line is all DX10 based, same with ATI 2900 and up line. 2. I dont think the mac based motherboards support SLI (it is bios based) 3. crossfire the same, it has to be supported in the chipset and in the bios and it would be either SLI or Xfire, it would not support both, for it to work with SLI it would have to have an NVIDIA based chipset (680i/780i) which i dont beleive Apple has, for Xfire an intel or ati based chipset. 3.The PCIe is likely 32 total, so it would probably be 16/8/4/4 or it could be 8/8/8/8 but it would not work in quad xfire or quad SLI (which is more or less garbage anyways due to limitations of directx not being able to call more then 3 frames ahead so the 4th cards is basically a waste, why triple SLI is /has been released. The 8800GT is plenty for most games out now (except poorly coded ones like Crysis) but most all other games will run more then fine in it that Apple has out now for OSX. Your Mac Pro wont run DX10 unless you install Vista in bootcamp. (directX isnt in OSX it is a windows API only more or less) [/QUOTE]
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