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Anyone editing on new Mac Pro with new graphics card?
Hi,
I’m looking at buying a new “Nehalem” Dual 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon machine with this NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB card for our Avid with dual monitors.
It looks like the graphics card no longer has dual DVI ports, but instead one DVI and one mini-display port requiring buying a $100 gimmicky adapter. Here’s how they state it at Apple:
Each graphics card offers built-in dual-display support in two modes…You can attach multiple Apple flat panels with DVI connectors to your Mac Pro graphics card, one directly to the Dual-Link DVI port the other via a Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (sold separately).
So my question: Anyone editing on this graphics card setup? Does it work? Would I be better off buying an EXTRA graphics card and taking up a valuable slot? Why can’t they just include the 10 cent port on the card like they always have in the past? Looks like a tangled mess!
Thanks,
Craig
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They work fine. The GT120 is fully supported by Media Composer 3.5.1 and above.
The Adapters are $29 and you can get them from apple.
https://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/AThey work fine. The only problems i’ve ran into were getting the right DVI cables to fit in this adapter. If you look at the picture close, you can see it doesn’t accept the DVI cables that have the four pins surrounding the flat pin.
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