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NVIDIA 8800 GT (1st Generation) Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro!
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Thanks to laziness on the part of FedEx, my overnight shipping became 4 day shipping unless I want to drive over an hour to go pick it up.
So much for being one of the first helping others.
My Nvidia 8800GT was just shipped by Apple. What drivers should I use with Windows XP Pro? Could someone please post a link?
Everyone seems to be talking about poor Pro App performance. I've seen the Barefeats testing and doesn't that only cover the usage of Core Image FX? As in, only the parts of the programs that use them? As far as I know, core image stuff isn't that prevalent in FCP so this card should be faster for the most part. Is this an incorrect assumption?
I'd like to hear from the early adopters on their experience with various Pro Apps.
Cheers
I'd like to hear from the early adopters on their experience with various Pro Apps.
Cheers
As has been said before, this card does not work in Boot Camp initially, Windows won't recognize it. All you have to do is download the latest beta drivers from Nvidia and everything will work fine. Now I'm just trying to find the limits of this card which are light years away from the x1900, I guess I have a new paperweight.
Should you download the drivers for Windows before you install the GPU, or after? Does it matter?
It doesn't matter. Windows'll load, it'll just be really slow graphics, you can just go on the web and download the new drivers and restart and you'll be all good.
mac world article
Found this
"Divide and Conquer The Mac Pro includes software that dynamically manages the way the PCIe interface divvies up its bandwidth. So if you add new graphics cardssay, multiple GeForce 7300 GT cards to drive additional monitorsthe Mac Pro will automatically sense them and allocate its PCIe bandwidth accordingly. Itll even check with you to make sure its set up optimally for what youll be doing."
So my questions are, am I reading this properly will 2 cards dispense the workload there by increasing GPU power and allocating it to FCP etc?
and does this allocation work in the older MacPro dual cores?
Wouldn't this solve the power issue, with a increased heat problem?
Found this
"Divide and Conquer The Mac Pro includes software that dynamically manages the way the PCIe interface divvies up its bandwidth. So if you add new graphics cardssay, multiple GeForce 7300 GT cards to drive additional monitorsthe Mac Pro will automatically sense them and allocate its PCIe bandwidth accordingly. Itll even check with you to make sure its set up optimally for what youll be doing."
So my questions are, am I reading this properly will 2 cards dispense the workload there by increasing GPU power and allocating it to FCP etc?
and does this allocation work in the older MacPro dual cores?
Wouldn't this solve the power issue, with a increased heat problem?
Found this
"Divide and Conquer The Mac Pro includes software that dynamically manages the way the PCIe interface divvies up its bandwidth. So if you add new graphics cardssay, multiple GeForce 7300 GT cards to drive additional monitorsthe Mac Pro will automatically sense them and allocate its PCIe bandwidth accordingly. Itll even check with you to make sure its set up optimally for what youll be doing."
So my questions are, am I reading this properly will 2 cards dispense the workload there by increasing GPU power and allocating it to FCP etc?
and does this allocation work in the older MacPro dual cores?
Wouldn't this solve the power issue, with a increased heat problem?
You are mis-reading it. It is talking about bandwidth on the PCIe bus to the cards, not about workload.
PCIe can only allocate so much bandwidth across all the PCIe slots. However, it can change it while the system is running.
It is /NOT/ like SLI.
And how would I get the ability to use SLI, as if I knew what those 3 letters meant, but I can guess.
It means that I can use multiple GPU on one app?
TIA
It means that I can use multiple GPU on one app?
TIA
You cant SLI on Mac Pro.
"Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Nvidia for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics."
"Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Nvidia for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics."
I think that FCP can render to servers or other nodes such as connected computers, so why not multiple graphics cards...
Because FCP doesn't use the graphics card for its work; FCP renders using the system processors, not the GPU.I think that FCP can render to servers or other nodes such as connected computers, so why not multiple graphics cards...
Is this the beta driver you're referring to?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_174.74.html
My 8800GT is supposed to arrive tomorrow and I can't wait to fire it up.
Yes, thats the exact driver I used. Just install the card first, go to that link download it and install the driver and you'll be set.
Yours doesn't spin up to max RPM when you power on your Mac Pro?
Strange then, because mine does. I'd rather it not but it is in fact spinning to max RPM everytime I power it on or restart. My 1900XT with an Accelero X2 didn't do this.
It does, but compared to an unmodified 1900XT, it is a lot quieter. The 1900XT stock unit was loud.
(Of course, neither is as loud as all the case fans revving up to full during boot because you only have one CPU + Heatsink installed)