| right, thats the "official" reseller http://www.ebay.com/sch/macvidcards/m.html
unfortunately finding info is the tough part.
i have researched here and there but there is no official list that i have seen yet for supported devices.
lots of threads in forums to preuse through
the most up to date info seems to be
1) Update to 10.7.3 if you haven't already done so.
2) Install the drivers from NVIDIA's website.
3) Plug in the GTX XXX
no other software or removals necessary
"The cards we are making require soldering and a rewritten BIOS and EFI. There is nothing from stopping Mac users at large from plugging a PC GTX5xx card in, as I have posted in other threads, the current drivers for OSX that Nvidia has on their site are capable of making these cards work in ANY MAC PRO. You just won't have boot screens"
downside is "Without having the EFI work done by MacVidCards, you won't see the grey screen at boot, and won't be able to get into any of the Mac's EFI functions. You'll have to wait for OS X to start booting before you see anything. Once it does, it'll work fine."
Also it seems that cards may run at PCIe 1.0 not 2.0 speeds so they would have half the bandwith
The MacVidCards will show the boot screen and work at 2.0 speeds
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:
On May 2, 2012, at 11:24 AM, rendernyc wrote: Several PC GTX cards have drivers in OSX 10.7.3
Can you elaborate or provide a link? This would be very cool! There is no official support but there are reports of the 470 570 580 working without any software mods besides installing the nvidia drivers I think the 680 is the one thats calling my name though... but i dont have one to test, yet.
There is a place on eBay selling hotrodded PC cards, using the Quadro 4000 drivers I believe. Part of the hack is you have to disable power management, or else the system thinks the card is overheating and throttles it back.
- Chris
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Robert Leigh <leighs@qwest.net> wrote:
Thanks Teddy. Wow, for not much diff in performance the price diff is about 10x. That seems a lot to pay for SDI connectivity. But that’s just me.
Robert
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Robert the only difference is that one has SDI connectivity and one doesn't. The base CPU and RAM specs are identical. There may be less of a performance hit when running a display with the SDI flavor because of the dedicated hardware, but for all intents and purposes they are the same.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Robert Leigh <leighs@qwest.net> wrote: Could someone mention which version(s) of the Quadro 4000 is(are) being
discussed? The PNY VCQ4000-PB is about $750 on Newegg (can do). The PNY
with SDI/IO is $7700 (no can do, at least by me).
Thanks,
Robert
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I'm looking at getting the Mac version of the Quadro 4000 but it looks like
there's support for only one monitor.
Is anyone running dual monitors with this card? In conjunction with another
card? Is it possible?
I have an AJA Kona3 for broadcast monitoring, but I need the dual display
for desktop.
Looking to pull the trigger today if you guys can give some guidance.
Thanks,
Jim
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