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Dazed and confused: Graphics cards
Using Davinci Resolve Lite on a Mac Pro (late 2007 — last week of 2007 actually): Quad Pro 8 Core Intel Xeon, Lion.
I recently replaced the original graphics card to accommodate FCP X 10.0.3. I upgraded to a Nvdia Geforce 8800GT. Works fine with Final Cut Pro X but Resolve doesn’t like it.
I bought a GT 285, but my Mac Pro was made just a few weeks early to work with this card. It has 32 bit EFI instead of 64 bit EFI. I may return it or I may use it in my Windows machine, although this is not the main one I use for video editing and color correction (much better monitor for the Mac: Apple Cinema 30″)
I was looking at buying a used Nvdia Quadro 4000 but heard that FCP X doesn’t like Nvdia cards.
Since I’m using Resolve Lite, it doesn’t recognize two cards, so for Resolve I need to settle on one card: one that works for both Resolve and FCP X.
Honestly, I’d rather not pay $700+ for a Quadro 4000 or 4800 unless that is really the only option; especially if it going to cause problems with FCP X. Need advice on the one card that will work for FCP X, Resolve lite and all the other work I do on this computer — until that magic day when Apple final releases a new Mac Pro with Thunderbolt.
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I didn’t think anyone was using FCP-X (sorry) ….
There is a way to run that GTX-285 card on an older Mac-Pro I think Mac-Vid Cards (.com) has a kext to make it go. If that machine has PCIe V1.0 card slots it will not run as a realtime with Resolve but it will be OK.
The 8800 should be the GUI card and the 285 the GPU.
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Robert Houllahan
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sadly the 8800GT is last one from Nvidia that works natively
the quadro 4000 isn’t going to work well at all
we have kits for 1st Gen machines but ultimately you would be happier with 2008 or later Mac Pro. (2009+ even better)
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