Quadro 4000 AND GTX 470 working :-D

[Sascha Haber]

I dont get it….ATI ? Why ?

Slot 4 eSata
Slot 3 Blackmagic 3D+
Slot 2 Quadro FX 4000
SPACER
Slot 1 GTX 470

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DaVinci 8.1.1 OSX 10.7.2
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB
GTX 470 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+

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[Christopher Adams]

Cause the main card hooked up to your computer display doesn’t do Cuda processing at all. Only the unconnected one does. So doesn’t matter if its a ATI or not at that point only the 4000 or the 470 would accelerate Resolve. Now if i could have an ATI in there hooked up to displays and then a 4000 and a 470 or (2) 470s then you would be much better off if it worked without an expansion chassis. But at this point can anyone confirm that there isn’t a way to get 3 cards in the mac pro directly?

[Sascha Haber]

Well, I know it doesnt do CUDA, but the Quadro as a main card does everything else…
Thats what I was after..
Sure you can try using a 5770 instead…it also has one power port only.
But space wise ?
Not cool, that will take another slot.

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MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB
GTX 470 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+

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[Joseph Owens]

[Christopher Adams] “at this point can anyone confirm that there isn’t a way to get 3 cards in the mac pro directly?”

I think it would be an issue with lane width/ bit transfer rates, in that you really need a 16x PCIe slot, and the upper two slots in the current MacPros don’t support that, so you’re stuck with using them for I/O video and storage drive interfaces.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Christopher Adams]

Yes.. though could you put the two cuda cards in the 16x slots and the ATI in one of the 8x slots?
Providing power or storage controller wasn’t the issue. i don’t’ think the decklink needs more then a 4x
CJ

[Margus Voll]

Hi.

I wonder how did you get molex Y to pci e on 5.1 machine.

I just got my 470 but optical bay has sata power only or i’m just blind 🙂

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[Neil Sadwelkar]

I just installed a 470 in my MacPro and connected the power cables to the motherboard directly. Why do you need to go to the optical bay?

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[Margus Voll]

Yeah i just had my worry’s

I just also installed my cards and made custom Y cable and all went well.
What i liked about my custom cable as it is a bit cleaner in look 😉 compared to shops pc ones.

My initial idea was to have power more distributed on different power lanes
this is why i was thinking of getting power from other sources.

But what happened after i started new config and played with some shots.
UPS went mad and stated that it did not wand to work 🙂

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[Thomas Wong]

Sadly I had it only working for a few minutes before my system shut down by itself 🙁

It was too much power draw, main difference in setup is that i’m running a 10 tb raid. I added a 5th drive in the optical bay. and i have a hba instead of a regular esata card.

if anybody is running a setup like that, the power draw will be too much once you start maxing out the 470’s usage. everything was going smoothly until i started pushing the card with blurs and noise reduction. I heard the card spin up to max fan, and everything turned off.

Guess I’m gonna be looking into a cyclone!