The GTX 285 For the Mac

I am not surprised, Nvidia developed CUDA for the Mac so there is no reason why hardware companies wouldn't put a card out.

I wonder if it takes advantage of EFI, no mention of it anywhere in the article.
 
tlarkin said:
I wonder if it takes advantage of EFI, no mention of it anywhere in the article.
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That's a very good question. If it does, then drivers aren't necessary, is that right? Also, what kind of power supply ships with, say, a standard Mac Pro? The minimum power requirements for a PC GTX 285 is around 550W
 
mep916 said:
That's a very good question. If it does, then drivers aren't necessary, is that right? Also, what kind of power supply ships with, say, a standard Mac Pro? The minimum power requirements for a PC GTX 285 is around 550W
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A mac pro has like a 1000 watt PSU designed by Apple. Pretty hard core, has two plugs and is a beast.

EFI just allows more extensible firmware programming, so yeah you could technically load the driver into firmware. Macs don't require drivers though since everything is already bundled in their OS. You may need an OS update to run the card if the drivers aren't built in a previous OS version and of course you can always download the driver updates manually and install them too.
 
wow nice stuff,Im stupid i know but what exactly is the diffrence between the Mac and standard version of that card? Are the Pci-e slots diffrent or something?
 
Nevakonaza said:
wow nice stuff,Im stupid i know but what exactly is the diffrence between the Mac and standard version of that card? Are the Pci-e slots diffrent or something?
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Nothing it is all x86 based hardware these days. The mac version could support EFI which PCs do not have support for yet, but I can't find anything that says it does.
 
mep916 said:
Wow, that's sick. I didn't know that.
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Apple doesn't fuss around with their machines and they do use high quality parts. Heck my G5 at home is like 3 years old and it has a 700W PSU in it. Dual processors with built in liquid cooling, all designed and built by Apple.

I just wish they could stop taking out stuff that works or is wanted. Apple does make some dumb moves in my view at times.
 
tlarkin said:
Apple doesn't fuss around with their machines and they do use high quality parts. Heck my G5 at home is like 3 years old and it has a 700W PSU in it. Dual processors with built in liquid cooling, all designed and built by Apple.

I just wish they could stop taking out stuff that works or is wanted. Apple does make some dumb moves in my view at times.
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Actually the macs NEEDED liquid cooling cuz they ran so hot:P Plus the G5 cpu is designed by ibm:P
 
bomberboysk said:
Actually the macs NEEDED liquid cooling cuz they ran so hot:P Plus the G5 cpu is designed by ibm:P
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Yes and the Intel chips are designed by Intel and yes before IBM they were using motorolla chips. They don't manufacture parts, they do however design every aspect of their systems.

The G5 did run hot, it has super HUGE heat sinks. Their processors weren't sockets either and they came built into circuit boards

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I have a G5 Dual 2.5 with 4Gigs of RAM and a 6800 Nvidia DDL card in it. Not a bad rig and still runs super fast. Too bad Leopard will be the last OS I ever run on it, but when it gets too old it will get retired to a Linux box anyway.
 
tlarkin said:
Yes and the Intel chips are designed by Intel and yes before IBM they were using motorolla chips. They don't manufacture parts, they do however design every aspect of their systems.

The G5 did run hot, it has super HUGE heat sinks. Their processors weren't sockets either and they came built into circuit boards

g5heatsink.jpg



I have a G5 Dual 2.5 with 4Gigs of RAM and a 6800 Nvidia DDL card in it. Not a bad rig and still runs super fast. Too bad Leopard will be the last OS I ever run on it, but when it gets too old it will get retired to a Linux box anyway.
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Yeah, the old powermacs were monsters. Its a shame that snowey wont run on them though.
 
bomberboysk said:
Yeah, the old powermacs were monsters. Its a shame that snowey wont run on them though.
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Not really, I can't discuss 10.6 because of NDA, but it isn't feature driven it is a smoothed out and refined OS which is why they are only charging $29 for an upgrade if you have 10.5, which is totally awesome.

10.5 will do my G5 some good for another year or two then perhaps I will just load Unix or Linux on it, and I can always load Darwin if I want to and use X11 or another window manager, like gnome. I once saw an OS X rig that a guy had KDE running.
 
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