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

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Redneck1089 said:
I am using a 650 watt external PSU to power the card. I also have the Apple ATI 5870 in my computer as well...so I have always needed an extra PSU.
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Sweet. Do you think it would be possible for you to do a little benchmark of 780 vs 5870 in Mudbox and Maya, if you re familiar with software by any chance?
 
marbeljoyce said:
Sweet. Do you think it would be possible for you to do a little benchmark of 780 vs 5870 in Mudbox and Maya, if you re familiar with software by any chance?
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I could possibly do that. I don't have either Mudbox or Maya, however. Are they free downloads?
 
Redneck1089 said:
I could possibly do that. I don't have either Mudbox or Maya, however. Are they free downloads?
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Yes, you can find trials here -

http://www.autodesk.com/products/mudbox/free-trial

http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-maya/free-trial

Thanks!
 
Would a 550ti or normal 550 work in a Mac Pro 1.1 with 10.7.5 and Nvidia Drivers?
 
Thanks, I put in a gtx550 ti, followed the hack instructions for premiere, added the card to text file and still not recognizing it in premiere mercury playback.
Any suggestions?

Running Lion 10.7.5 mac pro 1.1
 
Yes I did

Retail-295.00.05f03-macosx

and

CUDA Driver Version: 5.0.61

Did I do something wrong? Someone said its cause MPE needs 64bit kernel and Mac Pro has 32 Bit kernel. I am going to try the MLpostfactor ML install which i hope will resolve the 64 bit kernel issue, unless you have something that might be a little less risky and efficient?
 
Whan said:
Yes I did

Retail-295.00.05f03-macosx

and

CUDA Driver Version: 5.0.61

Did I do something wrong? Someone said its cause MPE needs 64bit kernel and Mac Pro has 32 Bit kernel. I am going to try the MLpostfactor ML install which i hope will resolve the 64 bit kernel issue, unless you have something that might be a little less risky and efficient?
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You need to simulate a 64bit EFI a boot loader is the only way really.

On the weekend or when you don't need the computer setup chameleon once it's done it's done. You will probably be able to install Mavericks also but I dunno.
 
I bought a GTX 650 Ti Boost for my Mac Pro 3,1 NOT for gaming but because the Radeon HD 2600 was actually slowing down the system really badly in Lion and up, making loud noises, even slowing down Snow Leopard occasionally, and not being all that fast for video editing. The GTX pretty darn good, way better than the old GPU or the ripoff $250 ATI upgrade Apple offers.

Is anyone having sleep issues with this card? My computer can sleep, but yesterday, I told it to sleep, and the fans kept running after it was "asleep".
 
I'm on a MP 1,2 with Mountain Lion 10.8.4 but the latest Nvidia drivers will only work for 3,1 4,1 5,1 is it possible to get pass the installation check?
 
Antoni Nygaard said:
I'm on a MP 1,2 with Mountain Lion 10.8.4 but the latest Nvidia drivers will only work for 3,1 4,1 5,1 is it possible to get pass the installation check?
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Use Pacifist to install perhaps? Note that I don't think this will install the pref pane, so you might have to manually edit your boot-args to select the web drivers.
 
Asgorath said:
Use Pacifist to install perhaps? Note that I don't think this will install the pref pane, so you might have to manually edit your boot-args to select the web drivers.
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that's what i did after i wrote this post and it installed. i could install the preferences pane, but the driver manager select pane crashes when i presses it
 
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 (Early 2008). After reading this thread, and asking a question (post 539) which was answered by Genghis Khan and Asgorath, I bought a:
MSI N660TI PE 2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16
Newegg
MSI

It's been working great so far, but now the video card in my Windows 7 PC is dying, and I'm picking up (for $125 shipped) a used:
MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
Newegg
MSI

I don't do anything really GPU intensive other than some Steam gaming, like Team Fortress 2, on both computers. My question is which card would be better in my Mac Pro, the GTX 660Ti or the GTX 560Ti? They both use 2 x 6-pin power. Are there any pros or cons to either one?

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Also, I can confirm that a:
EVGA 01G-P3-1450-TR GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
Newegg
works just fine in 10.3 and 10.4 in a Mac Pro 3,1.
 
Registered to thank you guys for the info I got here about non efi cards on ML.

In the hope to return the favour, here is what I found:

VGA Asus GTX 660 TI-DC2O-2GD5 is working out of the box on a macpro 3,1 8core (2 CPUs @2.8) with ML. I had SL and win7 installed via BootCamp 3, I installed ML and I was very happy to see that after the upgrade in Mac my win7 partition was still working correctly.

BTW: the card. As expected, no bootscreen, but then everything seemed just fine. Working correctly also in win7 via bootcamp.

Using without any problems two monitors, a dell 30" and a cinema display 24", @2560x1600 and 1920x1200 via the two DVI ports.

Warning: hdmi working but can't go over 1920x1200 on the Dell 30", really can't get why (thought it might have been the cable, being too old, so I got a new 1.4 hdmi cable and it still wasn't showing higher resolutions). Haven't tried hdmi in Mac thou.

Note: you'll need *two* 6 pin cables, not included in the asus box.
 
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gottagosry said:
Warning: hdmi working but can't go over 1920x1200 on the Dell 30", really can't get why (thought it might have been the cable, being too old, so I got a new 1.4 hdmi cable and it still wasn't showing higher resolutions). Haven't tried hdmi in Mac thou.
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Resolutions over 1920x1200 require a dual-link DVI connection (or DisplayPort). HDMI and single-link DVI connections can't go higher than 1920x1200 by design, as I understand it.
 
MacVidCards said:
Later revisions of HDMI should support higher res.

New 4K dispays use such revisions to run 4K via HDMI 1.4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_1.4
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Yup, I've never heard of any hmdi's limitations in resolution from 1.2 on. That is why I wanted to warn people who might want to buy the gtx660ti planning on using the hdmi @higher than 1920x1080. Mine won't work.

Infact yesterday I had to jump between like six stores to find a DVI dual link cable - which doesn't seem to be an easy thing to find anymore unfortunately in physical stores.
 
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