Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] The Mac Pro is dead
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From: Rendernyc <rendernyc@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:06:03 -0400
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You are correct. Many pc Nvidia cards will work out of the box. No boot scre=
en and not full throughput. Macvidcards on ebay add both those things. He wi=
ll also flash your card if u send it to him for a fee
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On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:36 PM, Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:

> On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Steve Oakley wrote:
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>> 3rd parties are flashing nVidia cards with mac firmware and they work exc=
ept during boot up.
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> Following the conversations up here, I was getting the (probably mistaken)=
 impression that after pre-installing the drivers that the Windows cards wor=
ked out of box, except you didn't get to see the boot screen; the eBay custo=
m-flashed cards added the boot display hack.
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>> the effort for them to support 480 / 580 /680 is pretty minimal. they cou=
ldn't even go for a fews days of an engineer's time to tweak the firmware fo=
r boot up ?
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> Given that third parties are flashing the cards, rather than offering an O=
S patch, I got the (again, perhaps mistaken) impression that "officially sup=
porting" those cards required the third parties to update firmware to offer M=
ac versions, rather than rely completely on Apple.
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> But I'm speculating based on what I'm skimming over on this list. Can thos=
e who are running "Windows" cards on their Macs give us some explicit detail=
s of exactly what they had to do, and what they have to do without (like tem=
p sensing in the power management - something else that comes up with the eB=
ay flashed cards)?
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> Regardless, dismayed that Apple didn't at least add the Quadro 4000 to the=
ir Built To Order options.
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> - Chris
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