ATI gfx card Mac Pro?

[Kevin Camp]

ati does make some mac cards, but i don’t know of any companies making third party mac cards, just apple and ati. even the mac nvidia cards are made by apple. ati does write their drivers for the after market cards, but i believe apple writes all the other drivers for both the ati and nvidia original and build-to-order cards.

i know i’ve read about people who have taken similar pc cards and made them work on a mac, but i don’t think it was a very easy process (re-flashing the rom and such), and i think it was more of an experiment to see if it could be done rather than a permanent solution…

however, you should be able to get the card to work just fine under boot camp, if you want to run windows software on your mac… but if you want to boot osx and use mac software, i think i would stay with a card made for mac.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Kev,

Thanks for your reply..I know not really an AE question!

That sucks a big one if that’s the case…as it would appear Apple get away with charging double the price for an identical card with different software!? On Intel Macs! Hmmmm….

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[Kevin Camp]

yep… if you’re the only one making them, you can charge whatever you want.

i’m a bit surprised that a third party vendor hasn’t tried releasing mac versions of their product… if guys are out there flashing pc cards and using apple drivers to run some of these cards, it seems that it shouldn’t be too hard for a company to just make them actually work, particularly if the card design is the same…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Jimmy Brunger]

You’d think so wouldn’t you!

I’ve had to order it from Apple now due to not getting an answer from any resellers, or from Sapphire direct. Not worth the risk of it messing up the mac.

you’re right though Kevin…someone is definitely missing a trick there!

AE7 Pro – Nucleo – Mocha v1.2.0 – PS CS3 – FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.11
30″ ACD / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe RAID
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Production Studio CS2 – Combustion 3 – Mocha v1.0.1
Win XP Pro 32 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5s / Sony BVM-20G1E / 2 x Dell 2007FP / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB/80GB/600GB RAID-0