New 8800GT card from Apple

LuKreme kremels at kreme.com
Fri Jan 11 08:26:12 PST 2008


On 11-Jan-2008, at 01:15, Paul Sargent wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 7:51 AM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> PCIe 2.0 is completely backwards compatible with PCIe v1.x. Graphic  
>> cards and
>> motherboards designed for v2.0 will be able to work with v1.1 and  
>> v1.0, and vice versa.
>
> So it looks like this guy may be mis-informed.

Apple has been calling people who ordered the cards and telling them  
that they DO NOT work in any machine but the new 2008 Mac Pro.  Apple  
has told Blizzard they cannot use the new cards in their extensive  
phalanx of Mac Pros.  Blizzard is pissed.  I am furious.

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