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Video Card for Motion V1.0

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Hi All,

im helping a friend get his mac up and running with production suite and he needs a new video card to run motion V1. The requirements ask for a FX5200 ultra or a 6800 ultra for nvidia GPU's.

My question is, are there specific video cards for MAC and PC or does the one card work on both platforms? Is this the same for ATI cards?

From what i have read on the mac website the drivers for nvidia cards are built into the O.S updates.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Andrew Turner
Sydney, Australia
 
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AndrewTurnerAUS said:
Hi All,

im helping a friend get his mac up and running with production suite and he needs a new video card to run motion V1. The requirements ask for a FX5200 ultra or a 6800 ultra for nvidia GPU's.

My question is, are there specific video cards for MAC and PC or does the one card work on both platforms? Is this the same for ATI cards?

From what i have read on the mac website the drivers for nvidia cards are built into the O.S updates.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Andrew Turner
Sydney, Australia
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Mac video cards are specific, the firmware on the card has to talk to the firmware on the machine it is designed for.

Mac specific cards are a little more expensive than the PC equivelents but that is no different from the case for all other low quantity machines (i.e try buying a card for a Sun workstation and see how much they cost!).

This link might be useful:

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/video.html

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Thanks very much for the links .. lokos like it will awnser most of my future questions...

cheers
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there are forums with hacked bioses and guides on taping the pins etc... some have mixed results, but if youve gotta spare card lying aorund

the GeForce 5200 is pretty worthless IMO, and everything runs on it fine for me.
 

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