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whats with the mac version of the nvidia 6800?

It's for retention purposes. The back of the card slips into a slot at the back of the case so it won't move around during shipping; AFAIK.
 
Originally posted by: RadeonGuy
I think they made the MAC 6800ULTRA into a worksation board because there are no demanding games for MAC
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halo and ut2004 😀 and WOW...lol not very demanding. DoomIII is comming to mac eventually
 
Maybe it's for the dual link dvi function. That card is long but it can drive two 30" LCDs at 2560x1600 each. That's insane.

$599 is absolute bargain for this card. I hope Nvidia releases PC version soon.
 
ah yeah the whole supply and demand thing will be nearly non existant on mac's wont it? lots of people want pci-e and agp 6800's and cant ger them
 
Originally posted by: Naustica
Maybe it's for the dual link dvi function. That card is long but it can drive two 30" LCDs at 2560x1600 each. That's insane.

$599 is absolute bargain for this card. I hope Nvidia releases PC version soon.
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No sh!t! Where's the PC version? I want my 30" Apple display! 🙁
 
Originally posted by: RadeonGuy
The Radeon X800XT is normal size it can drive the Apple Displays
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They had to add extra 'suck' to the card to make it compatible with Macs
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they didn't have to add as much 'suck' to the Radeon, it was already built in... 🙂

/end flamebait

and you are wrong.... from the AT article...

However, if you are interested in running two 30? Cinema Displays then you are out of luck with the X800 XT. Our recommendation right now is if you?re looking to run two 30? displays then the 6800 family is the way to go...
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Did you guys notice that this video card doesn't use the Molex power adapters like the PC version does? So it must be doing it's own power regulating. (That's my big engineering talk.)
 
Originally posted by: gusk1200
Did you guys notice that this video card doesn't use the Molex power adapters like the PC version does? So it must be doing it's own power regulating. (That's my big engineering talk.)
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the article says because its AGP Pro, not regular AGP, thats who it gets its extra power.

.... Make sme wonder why we dont have PCIe Pro or some sort of slot on the PC that can provide power.
 
Originally posted by: nitromullet
Originally posted by: RadeonGuy
The Radeon X800XT is normal size it can drive the Apple Displays
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They had to add extra 'suck' to the card to make it compatible with Macs
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they didn't have to add as much 'suck' to the Radeon, it was already built in... 🙂

/end flamebait
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Umm
The new Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition still has the same internal single-link TMDS transmitter as the Radeon 9800 Pro Mac SE, but now features a 24-bit internal VDO port. The internal port can connect to two external TMDS links to provide a dual-link DVI output. ATI actually uses the same Silicon Image TMDS transmitter as NVIDIA, the 178CT64, and interfaces to it using their internal 24-bit VDO port. The internal TMDS is only single link so the X800 XT Mac Edition uses that to drive its ADC port, while the external dual-link TMDS drives the dual-link DVI port. ATI?s inability to drive two 30? Cinema Displays is what gave NVIDIA the design win with the 2.5GHz G5 system, but ATI insists that very few users will have two 30? displays and thus the flexibility of one ADC and one dual-link DVI connector is more than enough for the majority of the market.
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