[Daniel Millson]

Thanks for your quick reply!

It’s good to know that other users are mixing GeForce cards and Quadros. I guess it would be a PR nightmare if NVIDIA said that their cards mix… and then something went wrong. Anyway: I should switch my cards around in their slots when they are installed, and set Resolve to use The GX-285 SSC instead of the Quadro. I don’t have to worry about my displays, as it’s all old-tech so it doesn’t need the DisplayPort. I will, however, have to find some of those splitters. It’s good to know that people using additional drives and other PCI connections with no problems. Do you (Sascha) find the additional cards cause any tricky situations with core temperature?

I upgraded to Lion in preparation for these hardware upgrades. Hopefully everything works together when I have it… and as for RAM, I don’t even have the 3GB minimum so I’m going to order some in ASAP.

There are three cards I am looking at in the GeFroce GTX range to run alongside the Quadro 4000, and I’m not sure how to choose which one out of the three.

There is the regular base GeForce GTX-285, with 240 CUDA cores and 1GB of VRAM. The memory clock runs at 2484MHz and the Core/Shader is at 648/1476MHz respectively.

A step up from that card is the GeForce GTX-285-2 which has all the same specs as the above card, but has a custom ROM so can handle an extra 1GB of VRAM, (so totals 2GB VRAM installed).

The top level of GTX that I’m looking at is the GeForce GTX-285 SSC. This model has been factory over clocked (still has 240 CUDA cores and only 1GB VRAM) and operates at a memory clock speed of 2646MHz, while the Core/Shader clock is set to 702/1584Mhz.

It appears that the GeForce GTX card that Sascha is using beats the GTX-285 versions for CUDA Cores, but only has 1.28GB VRAM… so should I be looking at the GTX-470 package instead? Or will the extra VRAM not really help me out at all? Obviously, CUDA Cores can be important game-changers in the applications that know how to utilize them.

Once this is all sitting a little more understandably in my head, I can see if I can do the math and figure out if my computer can support these cards, and how to install them. It’s all a bit confusing for me in practice, much less scary when I’m not actually doing all this.

Thanks.