[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Mark]

On 21 May 2008, at 19:41, Bill Bradford wrote:

> My windows box hasn't been turned on in *months*; I've just been too  
> busy
> to want to play video games.  It's an ASRock motherboard, one of the  
> ones
> that has both AGP and PCI-E slots.  CPU is an Athlon 64 X2 3800+,  
> with 2G
> RAM and a PCI-E GeForce 7600GT.
>
> I've been thinking about getting a GF9600 card so I can properly  
> play Call
> of Duty 4, but I have to look at the machine and wonder if it's worth
> dropping $200 for a video game when I could buy gun parts or ham radio
> equipment instead.

Yup, I've done just the same. I decided to upgrade the Pro, make the  
most of my one best x86 box, and put my money into something non- 
computery. I'm currently building a Radio Controlled rock crawling  
buggy. It sounds odd but it gives untold opportunity for some great  
model engineering and it's small scale enough to do on a bench or on  
my desk, or with our home workshop tools and some bits of metal. It's  
real geek brain fodder, and it's not hurting my eyesight! :)

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