No more new graphics cards?

[TheEasterBunny]

I am going to Get a 20m Thunderbolt optical cable and run it to my garage / server room. Put a red rocket card and all my drives in chassis.

Quiet room!

The other benefit of that is I can use my red rocket / Drives on a shoot with a Macbook pro.

Have you seen THIS?

 

[prowlmedia]

You just cant stack two many HDD's under the Mac Pro or it will get too top heavy. Wouldn't want that thing toppling over eh?

I am sure it will still weigh a lot with all that Heatsink and PSU etc. You could probably double the height... or just run a TB Cable into a cupboard!

 

[theluggage]

Very good point.
You just cant stack two many HDD's under the Mac Pro or it will get too top heavy. Wouldn't want that thing toppling over eh?

Imagine an old Mac Pro-sized case, stuffed full of disks and PCIe cards, with a big circular hole in the top in which a Mac Cylinder could sit, like R2D2 in an X-wing...

 

[TheEasterBunny]

Imagine an old Mac Pro-sized case, stuffed full of disks and PCIe cards, with a big circular hole in the top in which a Mac Cylinder could sit, like R2D2 in an X-wing...

HA HA HA!
That's awesome!
Might be a fun project too!

 

[prowlmedia]

Have you seen THIS?

Nice. Exactly... though most of the chassis have 2 thunder bolt connectors so you can just daisychaim them.

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresschassis.html

 

[pastrychef]

Good news : 10.9 has best support yet for Titan, including OpenCl.

Bad news: If you think that there will be many 3rd party GPUs, you are dreaming.

Why was EVGA able to offer GTX285 and GTX680 for Mac? Simple, they are 100% identical to PC version. The 680 literally is, and the GTX285 is just missing an S-Video port and has a different EEPROM. So, same assembly line, no retooling, no special parts. Different story with these new cards.

The demand will be HUGE due to inability to run anything else, so maybe the ability to charge $800 for a single GTX770 (and you would need 2) will make the demand big enough to make the boards.

But you won't be driving to fry's and getting a PC card and booting up.

I believe the OP was asking about video cards for current Mac Pros and you are saying there won't be cards for the new Mac Pro.

As long as there's driver support, there's no reason to believe future video cards won't work in the 2009-2012 Mac Pros. We just won't get the boot screen.

 

[DanielCoffey]

I believe the OP was asking about video cards for current Mac Pros and you are saying there won't be cards for the new Mac Pro.

As long as there's driver support, there's no reason to believe future video cards won't work in the 2009-2012 Mac Pros. We just won't get the boot screen.

Unless you flash the card... which can now be done on quite a wide variety.