Switching to Mac
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I'm a newbie well sorta to SU lets say intermediate and gotten in to designing houses and KT rendering and wanting to upgrade my PC, what I've been looking at runs about a grand or better + dual monitor video card. So my brother which is a big time Mac guy and runs security at a university has a Mac that he's willing to give me.
This it here http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/stats/mac-pro-quad-2.66-specs.html and I was wondering if this configuration is going to work for SU as I have read on the forum here that some intel chipsets are having trouble with SU is this true. Thanks for the help.Walt
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i have that computer (as in, the exact same computer)..
if you're getting one for free, well, you're one lucky b@$t@.. !
it's a great machine and will run sketchup very well.see if it still has the original 7300gt in there.. if so, nvidia had problems with that card and they've been know to go bad.. (mine did).. you're going to have a very (very!) hard time finding a 7300 replacement and a decently hard time finding something that will replace it.. i think the only other card that will work in the macpro 1,1 is the geForce 8800 GT.. there was a version of that card made specifically for this computer so if you ever have to replace it, make sure you don't buy any old 8800gt..
other than that, you should be good to go..
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Thank's Jeff just what I wanted to hear.
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