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Nvidia 5xx series??
Hello
It was my understanding that in the 12-core macpro the highest I can go is the 470 but a friend just sent me this link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYa39Y5nR6A
However macvidcards says “The 5xx series cards don’t have a working EFI…no boot screens…If you don’t need boot screens then you can do this GTX580 mod”.
I am currently running the 120/285 combo with a decklink 3D and its hdmi plate taking up the other 2 PCI slots.
I want to make sure I know what the best card to purchase is (without using a cubix) before buying on ebay – I am also willing to upgrade to Lion if need be. I would most likely just keep the gt120 as its working fine for now but If anyone has suggestions for something to swap out for while i am upgrading my 285 to a 470 or whatever then please advise!
Thanks in advance for any advice or help.
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Question is: will Resolve work with this card as 2nd CUDA card? Would be nice running next to my GTX120…
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every 5xx except 590 will work.
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Since I have been unable to make the GF100 EFI work on these GF110 cards, they can currently only be run using Netkas’ ATY_Init. This means no boot screens and that the cards will require adding the device id to the GF100 kext and they will most likely run at 2.5GT/s .
They won’t ever work in 10.6.8.
They will likely require the device id added in with every OS update, unless Apple/Nvidia decides to start including them.
IN my experience, they require adding their device id also to the AGPM kext. (with GF100 cards you can just throw it out).
I will try again and may eventually figure them out but for 10% more speed, they are currently quite a bit more bother.
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