Mac Pro 5.1 Aug 2010 - broken out the box

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Originally Posted by Gian

I need to use any special driver for the GTX285, like installing CUDA from NVidia

or is just plug and go ?

Thks

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not sure about the question-

but you cant use pc models in macs - they dont have correct firmware-
you can only use mac models and they are all currently discontinued-

cuda is irrelevant - and you dont need to download and install any drivers - they are already in mac os

I just shoved a 285 into mine, borrowed from XL, and it worked, well! No drivers or anything.

And my frame rate went from an awful 66fps to 166fps!

I agreed with Apple Business that if 10.6.5 didn't fix my machine they can have it back. Not fit for purpose. I suggested that if they got me a 285 then I would keep it, even offered 50/50, but that wasn't an option. So they'd rather take a £4500 machine back than stump £150 for a graphics card.

Rubbish.

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Originally Posted by basicmonkey

I just shoved a 285 into mine, borrowed from XL, and it worked, well! No drivers or anything.

And my frame rate went from an awful 66fps to 166fps!

I agreed with Apple Business that if 10.6.5 didn't fix my machine they can have it back. Not fit for purpose. I suggested that if they got me a 285 then I would keep it, even offered 50/50, but that wasn't an option. So they'd rather take a £4500 machine back than stump £150 for a graphics card.

Rubbish.

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get the nvidia 4800 in this case as an upgrade? - its more money but at least its likely to work

ATI stuff got broken in something around 10.6.3

I have 2 GTX 285 on 2 of our Catalysts now...

They look just fine, with no aditional drivers, but Googling I found some new drivers from NVidia as well CUDA apps. I did not installed any of them, and I can not see any problems, but I did not tested with any other software.

Thks

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Originally Posted by samsc

get the nvidia 4800 in this case as an upgrade? - its more money but at least its likely to work

ATI stuff got broken in something around 10.6.3

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It's a lot of money, especially after forking out for the machine. And I don't see it as right to have to spend that amount of money to solve Apple's mistake.

How does 4800 sit amongst the rest of the cards?

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Originally Posted by Gian

I have 2 GTX 285 on 2 of our Catalysts now...

They look just fine, with no aditional drivers, but Googling I found some new drivers from NVidia as well CUDA apps. I did not installed any of them, and I can not see any problems, but I did not tested with any other software.

Thks

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i wouldnt install any drivers from nvidia... they might be older than shipping ones
cuda irrelevant

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Originally Posted by basicmonkey

It's a lot of money, especially after forking out for the machine. And I don't see it as right to have to spend that amount of money to solve Apple's mistake.

How does 4800 sit amongst the rest of the cards?

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im sure its better or same as gtx285 - but i dont have one

there arent any alternative right now

gt120 is fine for doing simple things - but chokes on triple heads and hidef

gtx 285 on ebay:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_kw=gtx&_kw=mac

couple of questions:

any idea whether the latest mac os update helps improve things?

and secondly, do macs check for video card drivers when running software updates or do i manually need to check with graphics card manufactuer?

thanks

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Originally Posted by brianstorm

couple of questions:

any idea whether the latest mac os update helps improve things?

and secondly, do macs check for video card drivers when running software updates or do i manually need to check with graphics card manufactuer?

thanks

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i dont think 10.6.6 addresses ati 5870/5770 performance with hidef playback on more than 1 layer

almost always drivers are addressed by apple os updates - except there seems to be some confusion as to the shipping driver version in 10.6.6 for nvidia quadro 4000