New 8800GT card from Apple

[David Bainbridge]

 From a PC website(Oct. 28, 2007) that reviewed the PC version of the  
8800 GT:
This video card also fully supports PCI-Express 2.0 for forward  
looking systems. Thankfully it is backwards compatible with the  
current PCI-Express version and you should have no troubles running it  
on current motherboards. We are using an EVGA 680i motherboard and  
have had no troubles in single or SLI operation with it.


On Jan 11, 2008, at 2:34 AM, David Evenson wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:51 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>
>> If so, that is completely retarded and I'm extremely pissed off.   
>> Apple has never offered a viable upgrade card to the Mac Pro (the  
>> x1900 is far too expensive for what it is).  Someone needs to  
>> figure out how to get regular PCI-E cards to work in the Mac Pros.   
>> It's really annoying as I was prepared to buy this card.
>
> That is pathetic. Apple seriously needs to work it's graphics card  
> issues out. If you're never going to be able upgrade the card in a  
> Mac Pro, why do they even bother giving you the "option"? They may  
> as well just weld the damn thing to motherboard and call it good. At  
> least then you *know* you're fucked.
>
> 8800's have been available for generic PC hardware for almost a  
> year. Count me as pissed off as well.
>
> -d
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