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Run resolve on mac pro 1.1 possible?
Hi I have a mac pro 1.1 and would like to build a “temporary resolve system”.
Right now its a ATI 4870 graphic card in which is not on the offical supported card list. Anybody here have experience using it with resolve 8? I thought I could buy a nvida quadro fx 4800 and use the ATI 4870 for the gui. Is this a bad idea? I don’t think it is any better graphics card the old mac pro can take. If you can run Resolve in a imac it must be dancing on a mac pro with a quadro fx 4800 card in!Wich is the cheapest I/O card that works from Black magic if you don’t care about capture (already have an AJa capture card)
Thanks
Joel -
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Hi Joel, we have certified the 2008 MacPro with some limitations and so I’m not sure the older 1.1 will work at all. Resolve 8.0 will run on the latest iMac and MacBookPro and also the current 2010 MacPro. Please refer to the Mac configuration guide on our web support site for details.
Peter -
Hi Joel,
Further to Peter’s reply, an Early 2008 Mac Pro is the oldest model of Mac Pro on which Resolve will run. This is because the GPU and GUI cards required by Resolve require PCI Express 2.0 slots and the Early 2008 Mac Pro series was the first generation of Mac Pros to offer PCI Express 2.0 slots.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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If your not interested in capture then which is the cheapest BM card to use with resolve? Does it have the same performance except it does not do any capture?
Just interested to use it as pure I/O card. Already have an capture card. -
Intensity will do HDMI out and sound if thats enough
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DaVinci 7.1.2 OSX 10.6.7
MacPro 5.1 2x 2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
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Good news.
I am from MacVidCards
We have just put together a GT120 & GTX285 combo for 1,1 and 2,1 Mac Pros.
Initial tests indicate Resolve runs on these machines with these cards.
Obviously not as fast as the later Mac Pros, but if you don’t have the $$$ for a new Mac Pro, why not get started on the one you have?
In the name of accuracy, the trouble with these cards on 1,1 and 2,1 machines never had anything to do with PCIE 1.0 vs 2.0, the issue was that the original Mac iterations of these cards were EFI64 and the early Mac Pros were EFI32. I wrote an EFI32 ROM for the GT120 (Dual DVI version) that allows use of GTX285 via a small piece of software from my friend Netkas.
I will be happy to loan a set of these cards to a responsible & recognized party in Hollywood area to verify that this works. Just sold a set to a guy who will be posting at Reduser shortly.
I am also the guy behind the Mac Pro GTX470 and GTX480. (These have been benchmarked by a known benchmarking site, the GTX480 left Quadro 4000 for dead using Resolve)
So, Resolve running on ALL Mac Pros…can’t be a bad thing, right?
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David,
I’ve been looking for a way to run Resolve on one of my older Mac towers (1,1). Sounds like your hacked cards may be the solution. Will this help with Adobe Premiere performance too? It’d be nice to take advantage of CUDA on a 1,1 Mac Pro.
thanks,
Benjamin Rowland -
Did anyone get this to work?
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Hey David
Would be interested to see a link to the reduser posting… or even feel free to PM me about how this is working for your client? -
m8 where can I find this piece of software. u should share a link. u must, for the sake of world peace 🙂
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