Theory on X1900 XT shipping delays...

[kered22]

I bought Quake IV, which I am told us a UB app, so if someone can explain to me (in simply terms) how to benchmark that game, I'd be glad to get to it.. or maybe someone can point me to an "X-bench" type benchmark to download?

Hmm... I ask for the, but I'm not sure how to do the benchmarking... that was your job. LOL I believe there is a way to display the framerate while you're playing and I think you can run the timedemo and that will give you the framerates. I'll try to find that info and post it here.

And yes, Quake IV is a UB right out of the box, but they put out an SMP version which you can grab here:
http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=19123

You'll get more framerates since it'll use all the cores, but it has to be enabled in the prefs. The instructions for that are in the ReadMe.

EDIT: Here we go:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/5/16/3997

You may want to print out that page for reference... does sound a bit involved. If it's easier, you may just want to throw the settings up really high and just see how the game plays. If there are dropped frames or skipping etc.

 

[mustard]

Just got the email 10 minutes ago (10pm PST) that it's shipping, and due on the 6th of sept! YEAH!

That's a full 2.5 weeks sooner that I was originally quoted!

Just to clarify, did you order the X1900 as an upgrade kit or in a custom Mac Pro configuration.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Just to clarify, did you order the X1900 as an upgrade kit or in a custom Mac Pro configuration.

I believe, looking at his previous posts, that it was a custom configuration.

There's been another one reported shipped over at AppleInsider.

 

[mustard]

I believe, looking at his previous posts, that it was a custom configuration.

There's been another one reported shipped over at AppleInsider.

I assumed as much but just thought I would check - wasn't someone pretending that there upgrade kit shipped last week?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I assumed as much but just thought I would check - wasn't someone pretending that there upgrade kit shipped last week?

Yes there was... But there's been two reports of custom configurations shipping, this one here and this one. So I'm now cautiously optimistic about this.

 

[scud]

The guy who reported it at the Appleinsider forums is a guy I trust, wouldn't pull any stunt like this to give people false hope or anything. Not a new user on the forums either. So I say that it's legit.

Link:

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showpost.php?p=962055&postcount=195

Edit: oops already linked but whatev

 

[UnixMac]

Not only did I order it as a Custom Config, but I changed my order a week later to include less RAM as I bought it at OWC and for the same cost, got 5GB rather than the 4GB from Apple.. I was told this "Could delay" my order, and it obviously didn't.

oddly, I got my hopes up on the 1950 when I got an email from Apple stating that "As a valued customer" I was going to get a free upgrade, but as I read further down, turned out they were referring to my iMac order that I paced at the same time for my kids, which went from a 160GB to 250GB hard drive.

 

[scud]

So when does mine ship?

 

[Fedge]

My x1900XT Mac Pro has shipped. It shipped last night, on the 2nd.

See This Thread.

 

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

My x1900XT Mac Pro has shipped. It shipped last night, on the 2nd.

See This Thread.

Congrats!

Let us know how everything runs - are you adding more ram?

 

[Fedge]

Congrats!

Let us know how everything runs - are you adding more ram?

Yeah, I added another 1GB for a total of 4x512MB. I'm going to discuss all of this in the other thread starting . . . now.

 

[Grokgod]

My MAc Pro with the x1900 has shipped also

 

[damado]

I wonder if this batch of shipments is done or if people will be getting emails throughought the day

 

[roland-tanguy]

So, finaly ?

Hi there !

Do any of you got his mac pro (with an ati x1900xt), and does it or doest it not support "portrait mode" (rotation) in monitors pref pane ?

And did anyone tryed "switchresX" (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15467) with that configuration ?

Thank's folks for your answers...

Roland, Paris, France.

 

[mvanhemert]

Hi all,

My Mac Pro is also shipped at the 5th Sept. . I ordered it the 28th august.
"shipping date on 23th, estimated arrival date 29th"
So it's faster than expected. It's comming from Ireland to The Netherlands. So it will be here this friday. Can't wait.....
Now i have to make me a Custom XP disk and start creating backups to my
external HD's



Shipped - Sep 5, 2006 via TNT EXPRESS (IRELAND) LIMITED

1 MAC PRO,CTO
Toon info Verberg info
2.66 GHz Quad Xeon
1GB 667 DDR2 FB DIMM ECC-2x512
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
16x SuperDrive DL
Airprt Extrm & BT 2.0+EDR-INT
Apple Kybd & Wrls Mgty Ms-Z
MAC OS X-NLD
Country Kit-INTL
Sep 8, 2006

 

[stapler]

I'm pretty pissed, somebody with my exact same configuration and exact same order date has already had theirs shipped on Saturday, and my order isn't even uncancellable yet?

 

[Mrjynx]

I'm pretty pissed, somebody with my exact same configuration and exact same order date has already had theirs shipped on Saturday, and my order isn't even uncancellable yet?

I'm not really pissed, but check this out..

I've had mine on order since August 7th and it's the EXACT same configuration as mvanhemert and still no shipping notice

ah well..

 

[stapler]

I don't get it at all, it should be first-come, first-serve.

 

[mvanhemert]

I'm not really pissed, but check this out..

I've had mine on order since August 7th and it's the EXACT same configuration as mvanhemert and still no shipping notice

ah well..

Maybe apple stock Ireland get's the ATI card from a different factory elswhere or should all apple stocks get them from the same (china ?)?