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ATI Radeon 5870 + PNY Quadro 4000 – can it be done?
I have purchased a very nice second-hand 2010 6-core 3.33 with an SSD, some internal drives and loads of RAM. It came with the 5870, but I am pretty much married to Adobe and wanted the CUDA abilities for Mercury playback. I have the nvidia card installed and working (or so it would seem thus far!) but I’ve read that the card not only plays well with the 5770, performance on all levels is improved by having both the Q4000 and the R5770 in the same system.
Given that there are only 2 PCI power adapters available, I can’t currently run both cards. I do have a drive bay empty and I know there is a SATA-to-6-Pin-PCI power adapter available. Does anyone know from firsthand experience whether this specific setup would work? My thought is that I would use the motherboard power for the nvidia card and one of the ATI plugs, and the SATA power for the second ATI plug.
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
Steve
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4 Replies
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I believe they have to be matching cards.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
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I have a Mac Pro 5,1 quad core xeon, and I can’t get the Quadro 4000 and the Radeon 5770 to play together. I’ve tried several times but even when I have the Quadro installed & “working” I see no real world benefits in Premiere (so I know something is not working right). I do see the hardware enable option in project settings for the Mercury Engine, but something has to be wrong.
Not sure what the problem is. Tried every driver version I could, both Nvidia display drivers and CUDA drivers. Zip… as of right now, the Quadro 4000 is sitting in its box in my desk drawer.
And I’ve been doing this kind of stuff since the mid 90’s so I’d like to think I know what I’m doing. 🙂
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I know in Windows you can run 2 different cards and 3 if you needed to on some motherboards that have 3 PCI16x slots.
NIADA
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So here is the deal – I broke down and purchased a power cable that was SATA 15 pin to PCI-E 6 pin (check ebay for them). I then re-installed the Radeon card and (after removing one small side clip that was in the way of full seating of the power) plugged that power cord into the ATI. The card acted under-powered, with occasional signal drop to the big 30″ Apple HD Cinema Display. I powered down and swapped the power from the PNY with the SATA power to the ATI. The display is stable and both cards are still actively listed. The Mercury Hardware Playback Engine is still in full force and CUDA has no complaints. This is several days now, including some 1/8th resolution scrubbing back-and-forth of 4K R3D, in both Redcine-X and Premiere Pro CS5.5.
I think I did it! (No magical blue smoke escaping from the computer.)
Steve
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