Trevor Tizard Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Hi, I may have the opportunity to get my hands on a six month old Mac Pro. I would want to run max and Vray (presumably under bootcamp) and use my existing (three year old) PC for distributed rendering. I seem to remember reading somewhere about certain video cards on Macs being an issue. Is this the case, and is there anything else I need to know before asking IT to install it? Thanks very much. Trev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ky Lane Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Im using a 8 core mac pro with the 8800GT card at work, and all is fine there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 hi trevor im also working in a mac pro dualdual core 3,0 since 1,5 years with max and vray, i´m very satisfied, costs were lower then same configurations on a dell or hp the main issue is to use 64bit os to have to whole power of ram. i have both windows xp and vista 64bit apple dont support xp x64 so it would be better to use vista. on my mac pro i have the ati card. they have driver for xp x64 and its working on my macbook pro i have the nvidia geforce8600gt. the drivers from nvidia hompage didnt work with vista x64. so i have to use a rewritten driver. never the less the main problem you will have if you use your mac with windows os 64bit is that there is now official support, so you have to search a lot of forums to find a solution for your problems if accrue! i never regret switched to mac! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyca Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 i have now 4 Mac-Pro Workstation for video and 3D, i use them for max-vray and for rendering, it's the best cost/power rate i found on the market. Dell and HP are 800€ more expensive for the equivalent hardware. Once you've found all the drivers for XP64 than you'll be good, and if you want you also do all your post-production in OS-X witch is really more confortable for work, best from the MAC/WIN world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGD Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Thought I was seeing double then! (chaosgroup) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 The problem is that most video cards sold for PC don't work in OSX without some hackery, and some don't work even then (e.g., there's no FireGL driver). A PC video card in a Mac Pro will work in Windows and a Mac compatible video card will work in OSX and Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyca Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 yes, gfx card are a bit the down of apple, but if choose one of the 4 compatible, than it will be ok NVIDIA GeForce 7300 G ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Tizard Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 Thought I was seeing double then! (chaosgroup) Caught red-handed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Wait, you can just take any old 8800GT, put it in a Mac Pro and have it work? I thought you needed one made for the Mac, that it's got a different ROM or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyca Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 G ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 They has to be Mac edition, yes the Mac edition has a bigger ROM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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