MacPro with NVIDIA 8800GT

[Shaun Wexler]

On Feb 17, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Shaun Wexler wrote:

> 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.  ;-)

BTW, I've got the original 2x Apple/OEM 1GB 800MHz FB-DIMM memory  
modules available, if anyone is looking to upgrade their new Mac Pro  
to 4GB, etc.  I bought the 16GB kit (4x 4GB) from OWC for $1495.

-- 
Shaun Wexler
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