[geeks] PCI-E video cards

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/03/10 Mon AM 10:03:38 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] PCI-E video cards

>On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:32 , Joshua Boyd wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:48:54AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> On Mar 9, 2008, at 13:20 , Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>>
>>>> John Lee wrote:
>>>>> Newegg has 256MB Geforce 7 cards for ~$25. That may
>>>>> be a good way to go.
>>>>
>>>> ....Wow.  I just went and looked at their prices.  Non-bleeding-edge
>>>> video cards have dropped much further in price than I'd realized.
>>>> GeForce 8600GT cards for under $50 after rebate, 8400GS for $28.
>>>> Even an SLI-capable 8800GS card for $120.  And here I thought $50
>>>> was still a realistic price for a 256MB 6600....  shows how often
>>>> *I* buy new hardware, huh?
>>>
>>> Now... if only I could use one of those cards in my Mac Pro to boost
>>> that pitiful 7300...
>>
>> Well, there are aftermarket Apple cards.
>
>Yeah, about 2 of them... and all 2-3 times the price they should be.
>
>Or, since people are fixing 8xxx cards for $50, as much as 5-8 times  
>more than they should be.
>
>> Unless it is a hacked card.
>
>Unfortunately, a lot of them can't be hacked.
>
>Stupid on Apple's part, most certainly, but also stupid on the  
>industry's part because the technology to render this issue moot has  
>been around since 1994 or so.
>
>Oh well, if the industry consistently did things correctly, I'd  
>probably die from the shock.

Dumb question, but couldn't the work of the "Hackintosh" folks to use their PC cards in PC machines be put to advantage in an actual Apple Mac? Seems to me if they can get Card X supported on a non-Apple box, it should be just as easy/hard to get it to work on an actual Apple Mac - shouldn't it?

Just a thought - my Hackintosh will have the built-in graphics from the Intel 945 chipset, same as some early Intel MacBooks...

Lionel