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Frequently Asked Questions About NVIDIA PC (non-EFI) Graphics Cards

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Have the Luxmark benchmark results changed with this new driver in compare to the stock 10.8.3 Apple driver?

Are 3,1 Mac Pros running again at 5GT/s ?
 
scottrichardson said:
My 660 Ti won't wake from sleep - but that's the least of my current problems (Sonnet RAID 0 SSD stripe won't boot).

Byaka said:
Same thing here (Same card), I turned sleep off, and just shutdown instead. I know this is not a real solution but works for me, for now.

My card is the EVGA GTX 660Ti.

Also the buttons on the Cinema Display works only in default mode and cannot be changed.

Campboot&win8 pro seems to be working great, for example crysis 3@2560x1600 with everything on high works like a charm, haven't tried the max settings yet, maybe later.
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I can confirm that 10.8.3 also fixes this sleep (or wake) issue too, and the buttons on the ACD can also be customized like before.
 
Curious if anyone is planning on taking a stab at getting a GTX 780 to work in a Mac Pro? Looks like the 780's are hitting the market today.
 
bsbeamer said:
Curious if anyone is planning on taking a stab at getting a GTX 780 to work in a Mac Pro? Looks like the 780's are hitting the market today.
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I'm very interested in getting one. I'd like to make sure the PC versions of the 780 will work with my Pro though. It sounds like they should, but has anyone tried one yet?
 
Acceleroto said:
I'm very interested in getting one. I'd like to make sure the PC versions of the 780 will work with my Pro though. It sounds like they should, but has anyone tried one yet?
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Performance

NVIDIA GTX 780
2304 CUDA Cores
863 MHz Base Clock
902 MHz Boost Clock
165.6GT/s Texture Fill Rate
Memory

3072 MB, 384 bit GDDR5
6008 MHz (effective)
288.38 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Interface

PCI-E 3.0 16x
DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI, Display-Port
SLI Capable
Resolution & Refresh

240Hz Max Refresh Rate
Max Analog : 2048x1536
Max Digital : 4096x2160
Operating System Support

Windows 8 32/64bit
Windows 7 32/64bit
Windows Vista 32/64bit
Windows XP 32/64bit

Requirements

Minimum of a 600 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 42 Amps.)
An available 6-pin PCI-E power connector and an available 8 pin PCI-E power connector
Total Power Draw : 250 Watts

I def WOULD NOT give this a try in my MP 3.1! I'm afraid the Logic Board will be fried.....:eek:

Still very happy with my GXT670 4GB FTW, for my wants & needs! :cool:

Requirements

Minimum of a 500 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 30 Amps.)
Two available 6-pin PCI-E power dongles
Total Power Draw : 170 Watts
 
BDM STUDIOS NL said:
I def WOULD NOT give this a try in my MP 3.1! I'm afraid the Logic Board will be fried.....:eek:
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Mine is a Mac Pro 5,1 (2010 dual CPU). I've been on vacation for Memorial Day & haven't had time to research it yet. Hopefully there's a way to drive its 250W power requirement.
 
Acceleroto said:
Mine is a Mac Pro 5,1 (2010 dual CPU). I've been on vacation for Memorial Day & haven't had time to research it yet. Hopefully there's a way to drive its 250W power requirement.
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Here's my calculation:

PCIe graphics card slot #1 or #2 = 75Watt
PCIe mobo power connector #1 = 75Watt
PCIe mobo power connector #2 = 75Watt

Total MAXIMUM Watt drawn from the Mac Pro 5.1 MOBO wil be 225Watt!

Don't give this a trial-and-error!!!!!!!

What you CAN research is a way to hook the cards to an external power supply!

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http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=120-PG-0650-GR

Would love to see your end solution!

GL & Cheers!
 
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I grabbed an FSP BoosterX 5, which is a 450W internal supplemental power supply that you can daisy-chain to the main power supply and thus not have to worry about them getting out of phase.
 
Asgorath said:
I grabbed an FSP BoosterX 5, which is a 450W internal supplemental power supply that you can daisy-chain to the main power supply and thus not have to worry about them getting out of phase.
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GREAT findings and thanks for sharing! I'm very interested in how you hooked it up in your MP icw your MP power supply. Could you please share a photograph, much appreciated!

Cheers.
 
Great ideas, everybody. I won't have time to mess with it until after WWDC (spending too much time writing games, not enough time playing them). I'm really curious to see everyone's solutions.
 
If that is the guy who wanted no additional wires outside, he did a wonderful job acheiving that.

If you don't mind a little ugliness, you can use the same power supply but have some dangling wires and avoid the soldering.
 
MacVidCards said:
If that is the guy who wanted no additional wires outside, he did a wonderful job acheiving that.

If you don't mind a little ugliness, you can use the same power supply but have some dangling wires and avoid the soldering.
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Yep, and this is what I did. Just a simple SATA to Molex adapter, and then the power cables run over the top of the hard drive bays to the graphics card. I was running that system with the side of the case off already, so it was a simple installation for me with no case mods required.
 
Hello, i need some help with Mac Pro (mid2010) (quad core Nehalem) with Lion 10.7.5. I bought an MSI 570 Twin Frozer III Power Edition card (PC) and put it in the second x16 pcie slot (in slot 1 there is an Ati 5770) . But in the System report says that the Pcie lane width is only 1x and the performance is slow. If i put it in the first slot its 16x (unfortunatly half the bandwith 2.5G) I`ve checked the second slot with ati 5770 and its working at 16x. So i guess the problem is not in the mainboard. Unfortunatly if i put the ati card in the second slot i cannot put the nvidia in the first because its too big. So the main issue here is why i get only 1x from the second slot with nvidia 570. I would realy appreciate your help.
 
MacVidCards or anyone else, i'm sorry to bug you guys but i was wondering if you could help me out:

i run 10.8.3 on MacPro5,1.

this – http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-3687-KR

or this - http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-3688-KR ?


i want to buy and use it out of the box, screw the logo. is absence of logo will be only downside ?

powering any of those two cards with two 6pins will kill performance or it will work just fine (i need every bit of it for 3d work which mainly modeling and viewport performance, not much of a cuda, but rather OpenGL performance)?

or i can somehow use 6 + 6 to 8 pin converter (i'm not sure about converting but i read that there is way to do 6 and 8 pin powering in mac pro )

I'm pretty sure there is some room with Watts in mac pro should be enough to go unto 225w or something, but won't power Titan or 780 without external PSU?

is flashing required to use those cards at maximum or with 10.8.3 they work out of the box at 5GT/s ?


thanks so much
sorry for being redundant.
 
marbeljoyce said:
MacVidCards or anyone else, i'm sorry to bug you guys but i was wondering if you could help me out:

i run 10.8.3 on MacPro5,1.

this – http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-3687-KR

or this - http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-3688-KR ?


i want to buy and use it out of the box, screw the logo. is absence of logo will be only downside ?

powering any of those two cards with two 6pins will kill performance or it will work just fine (i need every bit of it for 3d work which mainly modeling and viewport performance, not much of a cuda, but rather OpenGL performance)?

or i can somehow use 6 + 6 to 8 pin converter (i'm not sure about converting but i read that there is way to do 6 and 8 pin powering in mac pro )

I'm pretty sure there is some room with Watts in mac pro should be enough to go unto 225w or something, but won't power Titan or 780 without external PSU?

is flashing required to use those cards at maximum or with 10.8.3 they work out of the box at 5GT/s ?


thanks so much
sorry for being redundant.
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you need external power supply if using 8pin, since you don't care about CUDA why not get an AMD HD 7950? OpenCL performance is better than the 680.
 
I need it mainly for Mudbox in OS X and ATI drivers seem to reeaaaaaaaly cripple 7950, and i won't see much bump, since Autodesk Mudbox is more of a high end game, i would greatly benefit from 680 with it's 4gb for texturing and running both maya and mudbox at max, cause if mudbox eats all VRAM maya viewport all lags unbelivabelly.

I'm really frustrated that all those video cards tested on games and nobody really do Pro tests with maya/modo/mudbox.

So i can't even really know if 7950 could actually be a better card for maya / mudbox unless somebody awesome would be able to do a Mudbox test with 680 vs 7950 on 10.8.3 etc.


But anyway will those 680 work at it's maximum with two 6 pins out of the box without flashing ? This is really what i want to know.

Are all External PSU for os x are kind of not so case friendly ? have to drill holes ?
 
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