I use my Mac Pro as a gaming rig, with WinXP, and it is as good as my old Alienware. The X1900XT isn't cream of the crop anymore, but it is still probably in the top 10 GPU's available these days. Combined with a gig or two of ram and the Xeon processor... you're set.
The main problem is that Apple GPU upgrades are few and far between. I am silently hoping that Apple becomes a little more vigilant about staying on top of Mac GPU's, now that they are potential gaming machines, but that is probably unlikely. This means that about 2 revisions from now, 12-18 months, a Mac Pro will ship with a GPU that is near top of the line and will offer an upgrade kit for older Mac Pro's.
It isn't the updated every six months bleeding edge technology that would be available if you had a normal, BIOS equipped computer, but unless you plan on running Crysis, or you have an obscenely large monitor, you should be fine.
Also, what Yonzie said. People don't say that Mac's are poor gaming machines because they don't have the horsepower, because they most certainly do. The problem is that Mac ports are infrequent, often shoddy, and require more processing power than they should due to the shoddy port.
Of course, when Parallels introduces graphics support, which they will, then the "Mac OS can't came" arguement will fly out the window, and the folks at Aspyr will be looking for new jobs.
Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
|