Apple 30″ Monitors

[Bob Zelin]

that is the point of the hi performance graphics card. It has everything required to drive the 30″ DVI monitor, and does not bog down computer resources, or other PCI cards. As you may know, it is difficult to find an NVidia 6800 card these days.

Plug it in, you will be fine.

Bob Zelin

[Matthew Ingram]

thanks bob,

just thought it sensible to check.

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difficult to find an nvidia 6800 ultra? why so? because apple is now offering the higher-range nvidia cards as a built-to-order? or is this a pci-bus thing?

[Neil Sadwelkar]

In case this helps. I am running 3 Dual 2.5 GHz setups 2 with BM HDPro cards, and one with BM Decklink Vanilla. All three have 30″ displays running off that ‘special nVidia’. And all three have been running since Nov 2004. One does Shake only (2k mostly), and the other two do FCP only – SD mostly rarely HD.

Not a hitch.

I also have three other systems without that nVidia and 30″ displays but with BM cards installed. So I can say for certain that 30″ displays with BM cards are not particuarly different from those without 30″ displays as far as reliability is concerned.

And now I’m about to get two more – Quads this time – all will have 30″ displays and BM cards, maybe even MB Ext.

Go for it.

Neil
14 BM cards old.

[Matthew Ingram]

blimey. thanks very much neil, thats well and truly tried and tested.

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still curious as to why this nVidia (which I bought with an eye on my maya) is so ‘special’?

[Bob Zelin]

The NVidia 6800 is a DVI-D card, which is required for the 30″ DVI monitor from Apple. The 23″ monitors are DVI-I, and the graphics cards like the standard ATI 9650 only have DVI-I ports on them, so they cannot drive a DVI-D monitor. This is the reason that AJA HDP and Blackmagic HD Link cannot display properly on an Apple 30″ Cinema display – both products have DVI-I ports on them, designed for the Apple 23″ Cinema display with DVI-I, or similar monitors (like the Dell and HP) that also have DVI-I.

Bob Zelin

[Margus Voll]

Hi.

A bit offtopic but can enyone compare Dell vs MAC monitors.
As I see here in my location Dell gives same performance but 25% less price.
Dell 30″ (11ms) seems even faster than Apple’s 30″

Eny comments on that ?

I’m trying to set up such setup but have not desided which monitor.
I have PC stations.

Margus.

[Bob Zelin]

your PC stations better have DVI-D monitor cards to drive these monitors.
A standard DVI (DVI-I) card will not drive a 30″ monitor.

bob Zelin

[Jonathan Smiles]

Hi All,

DVI-I means analogue and digital on the same connector.

DVI-D means digital only it will normally be single link

DVI-D Dual Link is what you need for the 30inch Display.

Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk

[Jonathan Smiles]

Good guide to DVI here
https://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html

Jonathan Smiles
Managing Director/CEO
Digital Safari Ltd
UK – Specialist Reseller
dCinema – HD – SD
https://www.digitalsafari.co.uk