Robert Houllahan
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I have a MAC GTX-285 I am looking to sell I would take $350 for it if you are interested. The 285 card is the most GPU available on the Mac for Resolve. I am selling it because I put together a PC based mac with 3x GTX-285 cards and I don’t need the Mac one.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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I always get the Mac-Pro X,X numbers mixed up I think it is the 2,1 I am thinking needs the kext helper fix for not the 3,1. If the machine is a 2008 with 800mhz or faster bus I think ti has PCIe V2.0 and should run ok with a GTX-285 if it is 667mhz bus it has V1.0 PCIe and needs to be coaxed to run…
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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The 3,1 is not technically supported (I had one) because of the V1.0 PCIe slots. However you could get a flashed GTX285 and there is a Kext which you can load with the kexthelper app which will let the GTX card run on your machine. You could keep the 8800 card as your GUI card. This all would only cost you about $350.00 and then you could run Resolve. CPU power will be limited by the V1.0 slots and you will not get real-time performance but it will run.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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Yes it is… Currently configured with 3 X NvIdia cards, a Decklink HD card and about to install an ATTO R380 SAS Raid to replace the Rocket-Raid…
Maybe when Apple gets back to caring about workstations I’ll take a look but the current Mac-Pro machines are pretty dated.. IMO
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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I have a 3 X GTX-285 P7T6 Supercomputer hackintosh setup now so I am not running a Mac-Pro and thought someone who is could use a Mac card.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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The 8-core 2008 machine I had was 667mhz Ram bus and PCIe V1.0 which put it out of Resolve usability.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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I had resolve running on a 2008 with 1 GTX285 and a 12Tb Rocket Raid, it was pretty slow. I think this is due to the PCIe V1.0 slots in the 2008 model which seriously limit overall machine bandwidth.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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There is a little clip on the PCIe slot towards the front of the machine which you have to push up to get the card lose. You will have to install two power cables for the 285 (they should be supplied with the card) they attach to the Mac Pro logic board towards the front of the machine.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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So this seems to beg the question… what is the difference between a multi-GPU OSX machine and the Linux option now? Is the Linux Resolve still using Infiniband linked GPU’s?
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro
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Maybe it is time to buy a Wave… Maybe I can sell the MC Color to a Color user… Tremendous update..
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMackbook Pro