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EVGA announces a GTX 680 Mac Edition

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Oberhammer

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Just ordered the new Mac Edition GTX 680. Should have it next week. I think it will be nice for Adobe products like Premiere Pro and After Effects.

24 Processing cores, 64 gigabytes of ram, 12 terabytes of HD space, and a new GTX 680 Mac Edition video card should make editing videos go pretty smoothly.

Would be nice to get a thunderbolt PCI card. I don't think they make them yet.

I ordered my card from here:

http://www.evga.com/products/Product.aspx?pn=02G-P4-3682-KR
 
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MacVidCards

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Got Mac 680

Thanks to EVGA for making the card available.

And to Nvidia for writing drivers, little did we know that we were all Beta testing so that they could roll out a new card.

It's a sweet thing, box notes that it requires 10.8.3 or later.

And it DOES come with a DP to MDP adapter in the box, so YES, you can plug it right into your ACD without a trip to Fry's to ruin your day.
 
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steveOooo

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So....
What's the difference between buying the PC version from Amazon and this 'Mac' edition?
Is the mac version worth an extra £153?

Is the only difference no boot screen? Will there be support if using the PC version - ie upgrading to 10.8.4 will break the card etc?...
 
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omnious

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MacVidCards said:
Thanks to EVGA for making the card available.

And to Nvidia for writing drivers, little did we know that we were all Beta testing so that they could roll out a new card.

It's a sweet thing, box notes that it requires 10.8.3 or later.

And it DOES come with a DP to MDP adapter in the box, so YES, you can plug it right into your ACD without a trip to Fry's to ruin your day.
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So share the ROM from it, will ya? :)

I'm sure many people will appreciate you doing so.
 
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Sadly, Fouel got Pho on his Santa suit. When he gets it back from the cleaners, I'm sure he'll post the rom for all to enjoy.

I will give you a little hint, there are going to be ALOT of happy people once it gets out.

For the time being, everyone who really needs one of these should buy one from EVGA's website directly so that they get maximum ROI. You want these cards to keep coming, don't you?

Support the folks who produce them.

EDIT: Just noticed something funny. On the box is a footnote stating "32bit OS applications can not access more than 3GB of the Frame Buffer" which is of course pointless advice on a card with a 2GB Frame Buffer. The same notice is on Mac K5000 box. Either someone got lazy in the "Copy & Paste" department, or the 680 was originally going to be a 4GB model.
 
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omnious

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MacVidCards said:
Sadly, Fouel got Pho on his Santa suit. When he gets it back from the cleaners, I'm sure he'll post the rom for all to enjoy.

I will give you a little hint, there are going to be ALOT of happy people once it gets out.

For the time being, everyone who really needs one of these should buy one from EVGA's website directly so that they get maximum ROI. You want these cards to keep coming, don't you?

Support the folks who produce them.
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This nonsense with Fouel is getting old, nobody feels pitty for you anymore. At least we got some useful information from Fouel.

Whether you know this or not, you *can* make money and share all of your findings with the World, but I guess you have not discovered that business model yet.

I am not asking you to put up your precious money making "custom" ROM, but the original one from the card.

You know, dump the ROM, post it online. It's a "community" thing, and I'm sure you have gotten most of your ROMs like that...

And please drop this good samaritan better than the rest of us attitude, by telling everyone to "support the folks who produce them."

It's fscking hypocritical. Take that any way you like it.
 
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MacVidCards

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omnious said:
This nonsense with Fouel is getting old, nobody feels pitty for you anymore. At least we got some useful information from Fouel.

Whether you think this or not, you can still make money and share all of your findings with the World but I guess you have not discovered that business model yet.

I am not asking you to put up your precious money making "custom" ROM, but the original one from the card.

You know, dump the ROM, post it online. It's a "community" thing, and I'm sure you have gotten most of your ROMs like that...

And please drop this good samaritan better than the rest of us attitude, by telling everyone to "support the folks who produce them."

It's fscking hypocritical. Take that any way you like it.
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Get up on the wrong side of the bed?

I got most of my roms by buying the cards, FYI. Nothing stopping you or anyone else form doing the same.

Take that anyway you like.
 
Macsonic

Macsonic

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I am thankful we have MacVidCards to provide us with more inputs on GTX 680 Mac and some reviews to give us more options.
 
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IceMacMac

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Macsonic said:
I am thankful we have MacVidCards to provide us with more inputs on GTX 680 Mac and some reviews to give us more options.
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Me too. He doesn't owe the community anything. That's his business/life decision. Personally I admire the guy who values his work and wants a return for it. That's how this whole capitalism thing is supposed to work as I recall.
 
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linuxcooldude

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omnious said:
Yeah, maybe I over-reacted, sorry...still, post the ROM.
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How about you buy the cards, do the research and do it yourself. Put up your own money for the several test bed Mac Pros, a few dozen video cards. Sheez, some people will always want something for nothing. One man does all the hard work and his own money, but the next joe schmo expects it for free.
 
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proxtoyz

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Aug 23, 2009
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mattlong1978 said:
I really want one of these here in the UK but the price Scan is listing them for is just crazy...£515 :eek:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2mb-evga-geforce-gtx-680-mac-edition-pci-express-dp-hdmi-2xdvi
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same, unfortunately it looks like we will have to bite the bullet. It's still cheap compared to the Mac Pro machine as a whole and it's the most dated part. Buying one will give it a kick up the backside performance wise (compared to the 5870).

Thought about cheaping out and buying the sapphire but thats still expensive at £400 so I figure theres no point in half measures.
 
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iSayuSay

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Apple should just update their MacPro with GTX680 by default so that they're in conjunction with iMac and rMBP product line using all nVidia for their graphic processor. And also Sandy Bridge E, please? Can't be that hard ...

MacPro does not need fancy WWDC or stand alone event for announcement.

Why Apple .. why?
 
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proxtoyz

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I wonder if there will be any further "Official" GPU options with the announcement of a new Mac Pro, and what GPUs they will contain. Might be worth holding out to see what they announce.
 
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bsbeamer

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proxtoyz said:
I wonder if there will be any further "Official" GPU options with the announcement of a new Mac Pro, and what GPUs they will contain. Might be worth holding out to see what they announce.
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Not sure if it's going to be drastically different from what's already available. There are "enough" of a variety of current generation "for Mac" cards available, in varying specs and prices to feed the market needs it seems... and if those aren't enough, the PC cards work for the most part, so that's an option for those who know what they're doing.

Until we see specs and build for a new Mac Pro, there's a lot of questions to answer. If there's a built-in GTX 680MX style GPU, then the vendor expansion into the "for Mac" market makes a ton of sense - upgrade path for those in previous generations, and upgrade path for those needing more power.
 
Dr. Stealth

Dr. Stealth

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I've already got two 4GB 680's. Don't need the card but I could use the ROM dump.

Hummmm....

Pick up the card on Amazon, dump the ROM, return the card without a scratch...

I'm going to Hell for sure...... But I hear that's where all the bad girls are..... :D

Anyway that ROM will be available all over the net soon if it isn't already....
 
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andrejkw

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Jun 28, 2010
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MacVidCards said:
Sadly, Fouel got Pho on his Santa suit. When he gets it back from the cleaners, I'm sure he'll post the rom for all to enjoy.

I will give you a little hint, there are going to be ALOT of happy people once it gets out.

For the time being, everyone who really needs one of these should buy one from EVGA's website directly so that they get maximum ROI. You want these cards to keep coming, don't you?

Support the folks who produce them.

EDIT: Just noticed something funny. On the box is a footnote stating "32bit OS applications can not access more than 3GB of the Frame Buffer" which is of course pointless advice on a card with a 2GB Frame Buffer. The same notice is on Mac K5000 box. Either someone got lazy in the "Copy & Paste" department, or the 680 was originally going to be a 4GB model.
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Any possibilities of an EFI-compatible 3GB or 4GB 680 in your shop? Or do you not have any plans for such card?
 
Dr. Stealth

Dr. Stealth

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MacVidCards said:
For the time being, everyone who really needs one of these should buy one from EVGA's website directly so that they get maximum ROI.
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Maximum ROI ? More like Maximum Bone. For the price it seems to be missing two gigabytes of RAM. (looks around on the floor for the missing RAM....)

I'm really tired of the Mac price gouging practice.
 
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