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Posted on Aug 6th 2011, 2:27 Reply #13 phanbuey
#MAKE EXTERNAL GPU ENCLOSURE PC#
Last Mac I worked with which could use standard ATX was the Beige G3 line which was the most PC of all the Macs and one of the best. So say PSU dies.you have to find a used one if out of warranty or buy one for a premium.
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In fact, some models are much harder to work on than PCs and Apple uses a lot of proprietary parts to make sure end users cannot just upgrade or fix them easily. I've worked with Macs all my life and aside from the neat designs like The Cube, these things aren't much different than regular PCs. Sure construction is better than those crap budget PCs but when you get to the higher price brackets you will find well built machines even in the PC side. The concept that Apple means quality is not as black and white as it used to be. Most users do not need Xeons and the cost for the performance, you would be better building your own i7 rig. Course one difference on the Mac towers is you get server chips vs regular on PCs. You can get the same parts if not better on PCs, not counting the crap bargain bin black friday PCs. The only difference between Windows PCs and Macs when it come to hardware is the outside. All have been low end and if midrange, they are usually downclocked parts. That and they haven't used a decent high end mobile GPU since the final days of the G4 Powerbooks. Mac gaming is dead because Steve doesn't want to optimize OpenGL for performance. Posted on Aug 5th 2011, 13:25 Reply #2 Hawkiloįor the cost of this and the extra expense of buying a Mac lappy with a pos Intel IGP.just buy a Qosmio or something then buy a used Mac if you must run OSX. Source: AnandTechif i remember correctly, don't most graphics cards not work on mac? The ExpressCard ViDock is pictured below. ExpressCard's bandwidth is much lower than that of Thunderbolt, but it still gets the job done in running a graphics card, even if not at its top performance. Village Instruments isn't new to such devices, the company currently sells ViDock, a device that does the same over ExpressCard interface. It will power the graphics card using an external power brick. It connects to the latest generation of Macs and Macbooks over the 10 Gb/s Thunderbolt interconnect. The enclosure holds a PCI-Express x16 slot along with a variety of miscellaneous I/O connectors. The response was positive, and so the company decided to work on such a device. BtarunrVillage Instruments ran a snap poll on Facebook to see if the Mac user community is interested in a graphics card enclosure that makes use of the Thunderbolt IO interconnect.