MacPro with NVIDIA 8800GT

[Shaun Wexler]

On Feb 17, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> Has anybody rec'd a MacPro with the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT yet?  if  
> so, comments on performance, noise?

Yes, I got mine last week:  Mac Pro 8x 3.2 GHz, 16GB, PCIe 4-lane  
Hardware RAID w/4x Cheetah 15k 300 GB SAS drives, BT/AE, NV 8800 512  
MB w/dual 30" Cinema.  Absolutely beautiful.  Even with four HD, it's  
quiet, and they all spin up at once so it boots rapidly too.  Only 730  
GB out of 1.2 TB is usable, FYI... RAID-5 needs 5 drives instead of  
4.  I have a Mac Pro 2.66 w/8 GB for comparison (and its fans are  
louder than the 3.2), as well as a Quad G5 w/8GB and NV 4500.  No  
complaints so far, except Solaris 10 64-bit crashes in VMWare;  
unfortunately Win XP Pro does work.  ;-)

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Shaun Wexler
SKW Development
Stealth Imaging, LLC

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov