Did a quick search and couldn't find anything specific . . BUT . . has anyone found any issues with the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card?

Running Windows XP on Mac Boot Camp and just wanted to check it out before doing the Liquid 7.2 install tomorrow.

Also, as a side question for any respondees (if on a Mac) does Liquid take advantage of the Quad Core in the MacPro?

I can't comment on the Mac issue, but I am using the 8800 GT with no problems under XP Pro with the DX10 patch.

Denny

Ah-Ha . . DX10 patch?  Where does one get that baby?  We actually have this 8800 GT in both the MacBook Pro and the MacPro, now that's compatibility, huh?  :o)

Mac INFO:  BTW, for all practical purposes one would have a pretty hard time distinguishing a difference on the Mac running a Boot Camp partition and just so ya know I'm NOT one of those die hard Mac guys but in fact was a die hard PC'er . . that is . . until all these issues with PC and NLE compatibilty and then this whole Liquid and Xpress Pro drop occurred let alone the tight spec list for Media Composer which would result in us having to totally reconfig our PC's that we had spent a ton of money getting into Liquid 7.2 - AND - Xpress Pro compatibility.  Then, we sold the Xpress Pro license off and three weeks later Avid anounced we could upgrade to MC for $500.  Don't that just beat all?  So, with literally everyone in the Pittsburgh area converting to Apple/Mac over the last 18 months (even Comcast) while we were fighting our PC wars we just said, "we can't wait for a NexGen in 8 to 10 months we gotta get all these new codecs coming out in our system and thus, decided we'd try Mac/FCP on a MacBook Pro since my personal 6.5 year old Toshiba Satellite's video card was slowing sliding into the dark beyond known as "The Blue Screen Of Death" on the odd occassion.

The Mac Pro is a nice system but it isn't any better then if you were to buy a nice highend PC based work station.  Sure Avid has strict system needs but if you think about it Apple is even more strict since there is only one decent desktop system on the planet that you can buy.  Being forced to buy a HP workstation isn't really any different then being forced to buy a Mac Pro.

With that said you can actually buy a Mac Pro for much less then what HP sells their 8 core systems for so if you plan on using a 8 core PC system then Apple is actually the best for the money.  If you need something one notch down then Apple is not a very good choice.  The next best Apple system compared to the Mac Pro is only dual core and a quad core system can be built for much much less.

This is a bit off topic but I have been playing around with building a Hackintosh system.  Before anybody says anything it is just for fun and to see if it works and how well.  A hackintosh is Mac OSX running on a normal PC system.  It works and it works very well.  There are people who build 4 core systems for under $1,000.00 that are only slightly behind a 8 core Mac Pro for FCP.  Yes FCP runs perfectly on these systems.  The whole point to this experiment at the end of the day was to proove to Mac dudes that there is nothign special at all with their Apple hardware.  In fact Apple gets their supplies from companies such as Asus although we cannot yet pin point exactly which company the motherboards come from.  The other reason for this experiment is to hopefully convince Apple to open up Apple hardware again and make in between systems that you can actually add upgrades to.

Back to your question I see no reason as why it wouldn't work.  The older Apple systems with directx9 cards worked perfectly with Liquid when using bootcamp.

Draske - On the Mac side hardwarewise, it is pretty forgivable on drives and video card, but from what I hear is pretty important to get it right; that is, no up/down compatibility . . but I'm not an expert on this.

Smetvid - I agree totally.  For me choosing the Mac was this . . all the powerful laptops I looked at had this new "glossy" screen which to me is the most horrible idea I've ever seen.  The screen looks like an older TV screen with all kinds of glare.  In the store I could actually tell the color of the eyes of someone standing behind when looking at their reflection against the screen . . and I mean ALL of them that I looked at were the same way; however, the Mac was the same dull clear screen that I was so familiar with and the only laptop I could find at the major retailers that was good to my older eyes.  Second, because of all I've gone through in this past 30 months of PC's incompatibility and Avid transistions until the finally stable v7.2 came out then to learn that our P2 720 @ 24pN wouldn't work and we'd be doing a lot of it AND then Avid announced that they were dumping the software AND our Xpress Pro we just decided that it was maybe time to look for an alternative solution that would run FCP which of course this thing does.

The net result is that for the most part I live on the Windows side and occassionally use Garage Band and FCP (both in the learning/training phase) and am getting more and more familiar with them and since we picked up a MacPro on Monday I'd like to Boot Camp partition it and put Liquid on it.  Now had I NOT sold our Xpress Pro license immediately when Avid announced that they were no longer going to support it (and we weren't using it anyway) then I would have upgraded to MC for 500 (of course why not?) but when I found it would cost me 1500+ to upgrade from Liquid (when I had heard we were gong to get it for a song like the Xpress guys) AND with all the incompatibility issues I had been reading about with MC and video cards and mother boards and the like, we just couldn't take any more risks and want to get rid of yet another computer.  So the idea was to get the MacPro which would give us a Mac/FCP station & Windows/Liquid station (all-in-one) and of course one of the XW8200's as a Liquid machine.  This will allow us to sell off the Tony dual xeon machine, an XW8200 dual xeon machine and an XW8000 dual xeon machine,  Just think of how much I am going to save on electricity alone :o)

EDIT: Going to do the Boot Camp partitition and Liquid install today and will post later :o)  BTW and FYI, Windows XP Pro actually runs better on this Mac than on any PC we've run it on.  The only hassle is learning keyboard shortcuts (i.e. right click = two fingers on the trackpad + left click; delete = fn (function) + delete (which on a Mac board is actually backspace); print screen = . . . etc., etc.)  However, the F keys are quite nicely functional to increase audio volume, screen brightness, player functions, etc.