EVGA GTX570 Install Tutorial for your Mac Pro (nVidia)

This video is related to Final Cut Pro X... if you are having problems with playback and want to increase your OpenCL speed which Final Cut Pro X can take advantage of... this video shows you how to upgrade your Mac Pro to use an EVGA nVidia GTX 570 video card that would normally be used in a PC. For $300, you can have a 2.5GB OpenCL graphics card that support CUDA and runs Adobe After Effect, Adobe Premiere and Davinci Resolve like a CHAMP!!!



Hope you guys find this tutorial useful. Please read the full description in the video and watch the whole video before attempting the install... and only do so if you feel comfortable with the topic! If you have any questions please let me know!!!

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Hi, fordeetv,
thanks for the info and the instructional video!
As far as I know, the GTX570 generates considerable heat during heavy duty operations. A number of people have reported that the temp will rise to 95°C or so. Even underclocking the card did not lead to much lower temperatures. So several users (long-time rendering, serious 3D gaming) chose to implement liquid cooling systems. Do you have any experience with this issue yet?

Would love to see someone's actual experience with this. I'm running a 2010 Mac Pro, 32GB Ram and a Quadro 4000... Not happy with the FCPX performance. I was thinking of downgrading to an ATI 5780, but if the 570 works as well, I'd love that solution.

So far it's running fine in my system. My longest renders have been under an hour though. The case sits next to my leg under my desk too, and I haven't noticed it being warmer by memory. Currently my bottleneck is my hard drives, and those need to be upgraded... hopefully in the next couple weeks. I have some old 1tb, planning to go with some new 2tb drives. But need to set aside some time to transfer everything over and not affect my current schedule.

I don't play any games on this machine so i'm not sure of it's performance with games, but it has responded well with both OpenCL and CUDA apps. And the machine is left on usually for extended times (several days).

The only down side that I can tell so far is that your mac bios and the card don't communicate so you have a black screen until the OS loads, at that point the card works as normal. One of the steps in the video is optional if the card is under 2gb too, the OpenCL hex edit. That edit is to reenable OpenCL and disable the check if your card is over 2gb. Not sure why Apple disables it if you card is over 2gb.

Fordee