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Installing two Quadro 4000s in a 2008 3,1 8-core Mac Pro
Is this doable? Is anyone doing this with a 2008 8-core 3,1? Are there any “gotchas” or caveats I should keep in mind?
I’m in the process of upgrading my 3,1 for both increased performance with Adobe CS5/CS5.5 (I currently use Premiere Pro CS5 for editing) and to prepare for a move to Resolve sometime next year.
Current specs:
2008 8-core Mac Pro 3,1
4GB RAM (I know… first thing I’m doing to upgrade is adding an additional 20GB)
NVIDIA 8800GT
OSX 10.6.7
Adobe CS5 (will probably upgrade to 5.5 since Resolve XML round trip is better supported or so I hear)
Final Cut Studio 3 (keeping for legacy projects and as needed otherwise)Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Performance in mind 470 is better but is not officially supported.
Price is also about 2x less compared to 4000.You should dig this forum a bit.
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Margus
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On the other hand, I would do the same if it was for Adobe mainly.
The Q4000 speeds up thing significantly for EVERYTHING else, I even might get one myself next the 470 which is powering Resolve.
Lets see if the power is sufficient with an Y cable.
If not, I use the one from the DVD drive.
But a Dual Q4000 is the best officially supported solution today, hence really bad performance wise.A slice of color…
DaVinci 8.0.1 OSX 10.7
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 470 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE -
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I have two GTX 470’s currently installed in my Mac Pro. One for Adobe stuff, the other for Resolve. No problem.
I pulled directly from the optical bay for the second card (each takes two connectors). Threaded the wires through a little corner slot and reattached a Molex. Easy. Lots of alarmist naysaying on the Apple forums. Pure BS. In fact I can see with my “Hardware Monitor” app that neither of these cards pulls any significant power with our apps. If we were gaming it might not be the case. Often I am not even pulling more that 350W total (including 4 HD’s), while the GPU is capable of doing almost 1000W.
So go for it.
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