installing a better Graph card than 8800GT?

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installing a better Graph card than 8800GT?

Hi all,
I am pretty pleased with my 2X4core Harpertown Mac Pro with the 8800GT GPU running bootcamp 64 bit Vista.

However, I find the 8800GT not fulfilling my graphical needs.
(i.e GPU accelerated 3D rendering).
Any way I can upgrade to a much better Graph Card, like one of the newer 9 series?

As a note: I am not ever running Macos, only Vista under Bootcamp.

Message was edited by: kwistenbiebel

Message was edited by: kwistenbiebel

Message was edited by: kwistenbiebel

Mac Pro april 2008, Windows Vista

Posted on Sep 12, 2008 7:45 AM

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The hatter

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Sep 12, 2008 8:23 AM in response to kwistenbiebel

http://www.barefeats.com/harper11.html Windows Vista graphics

http://www.barefeats.com/harper19.html 4870 vs GTX 280

You can use anything you want, but it helps sometimes to be able to view early video output during booting if there are errors, before Windows takes over (the OEM 2600 perhaps).

AMD workstation FirePro V8700 GPU has a $1,499 suggested retail price, 800 stream processors, 1GB of GDDR5 memory (with a cool 108.8GB/s of bandwidth), and a 30-bit display pipeline. Sounds like this is based on the same RV770 chip used in the Radeon HD 4800 series. http://ati.amd.com/products/firepro/firepromatrix.html

The FirePro V8700 start shipping some time next quarter.
http://ati.amd.com/products/workstation.html

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