Will MacPro 8-cores will support this: AMD to brand ATI Radeon 2000 series for HD era

[Adam Bridge]

Choice at what cost, however? Since so much is being done inside the
video card these days, and it looks like the rate at which it's
happening has begun to accelerate, the amount of engineering required
to support all those cards will rise rapidly.

Are you willing to forego video acceleration? Crappy third-party
drivers with all the issues they bring to the table?

If you're a gamer then buy a gaming system and be done with it.
However if you want a video card to match the software your system is
engineered to use: Aperture, FCP Studio, Motion, etc then having a few
cards that are used as well as possible would seem to be better than
having a lot of cards that either work but slowly or cause system
crashes.

There's no free lunch here.

Adam Bridge

On 4/14/07, Matt Johnston <pelorus at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 Apr 2007, at 22:49, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
> > what would this serve?  You can't build a MacPro without a view
> > card, right?
>
> You can build a Mac Pro with 4 cards. And every single one of them is
> at a considerable premium.
>
> Even just the first card - you have pitifully few choices. And the
> choices you do have are considerably more expensive than they ought
> to be.
>
> So yeah, choice would be good.
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