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Thread: Mac Pro 5.1 Aug 2010 - broken out the box

  1. #11
    Quote Originally Posted by Gian View Post
    I need to use any special driver for the GTX285, like installing CUDA from NVidia

    or is just plug and go ?

    Thks
    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

  2. #12
    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.
    James Cooksey
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  3. #13
    Quote Originally Posted by basicmonkey View Post
    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.
    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

  4. #14
    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
    Gian
    Ibeam SP
    SP, Brasil

  5. #15
    Quote Originally Posted by samsc View Post
    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
    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?
    James Cooksey
    Basic Monkey Limited
    t: 0844 870 0036 // f: 0844 870 0046 // e: enquiries3@basicmonkey.net

  6. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by Gian View Post
    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
    i wouldnt install any drivers from nvidia... they might be older than shipping ones
    cuda irrelevant

  7. #17
    Quote Originally Posted by basicmonkey View Post
    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?
    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

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  9. #19
    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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  10. #20
    Quote Originally Posted by brianstorm View Post
    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
    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

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