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plan for Simple GTX 580 Test….
After reading cow forums, I decide to get Cubixs.
Before I make real purchase, I am going to do a test tomorrow.
I have 5.1 Mac Pro with Quadro 4000 and ATI HD5770.
Since I don’t have cubits yet, I am going to pull out both video cards.
I will use 2 cables(one with 6 pin to 8 pin adapter) to power GTX 580.
This is just test to see whether Davinci see GTX 580.Purpose of this test is if it works, I will buy Cubixs with two of GTX 580.
Is this plan worth?
I am also afraid of burn either video card or mother board…… -
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I can confirm that with the new nvidia drivers davinci does see the gtx580. What you won’t see is a boot screen on it. You need a seperate gpu to run your gui.
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What I don’t see is the need to pull out the ATI and Q4000 cards and do all the jumpering.
You need a GUI GPU in slot one and that is Rule #1. You leave one of those cards in slot one and drop the 580 in slot 2, but do realize this depends on your OS. Review the appropriate threads on the rest of this forum to determine your requirements for that, in order for the new nVidia drivers to work.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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so with the new nvidia drivers we don’t need flashed GTX580s?!
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That’s apparently correct, and the subtext is that even the flashed ones work in PCs if you want to go over to the apparently much faster Windows version of Resolve.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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thanks.. that sounds. great. I still not like the idea of moving to Windows – even if it’s a bit faster -, but I get your point. thank you.
On the netkas page ( https://netkas.org/?p=1059 ) I red: “If you talking about Mac Pro’s PSU, it supplies up to 980W of total power. Before buying a card, learn about its power consumption at full load. If it more than 450W, I think you need an external PSU for that card.”So if the full load of the card is under 450W I’m good? I was thinking about getting a GTX470..
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I am doing this test after I read your post. Just wanna see it myself, beside Cubixs in here is almost double price.
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I need space and power for GTX 580, and once I know it is working I will put back video cards.
If it doesn’t work , I will change GTX580 to Quadro 4000.
I was worry because I am not sure MAc Pro has enough power for this video card. -
You will not see a boot screen if you do not have a seperate GUI card. Additionally resolve can not use any cards with a monitor connected.
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I could use cubix for the test..
GTX 580 is working great thanks to Juan Salv, and other cow members.
Here are simple result.
Mac 5.1 // 24 ram
My source was DPX and ProRess and result is same for Both source.
Quadr 4000 // GTX 580
12.5 F // 25 F
3.5 // 10 fAfter test I decide to have two GTX 580 in Cubix
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I can confirm that we saw this last week as well. Good news if it stays on their website!
Eric Fiegehen
Director, Visualization & GPU Compute Solutions
Cubix Corporation
ericc@cubix.com
https://www.cubixgpu.com
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