GeForce GTX 550 on Mac Pro?

Can I use this card on a Mac Pro? I'm not sure Apple ever supported it, so I have no idea where I might get the drivers, if they even exist. Can anyone help?

Not sure about under 10.6.x, but I'm running one on my 2010 MP under 10.7.3. There are a few little quirks with it (VRAM isn't reported correctly in system profiler, and you need to pull a bit of voodoo to get OpenCL working), but yeah, if you go and grab the newest driver and CUDA driver from NVIDIA's site and load that up, you can use one of these out of the box. If you don't already have one and are looking to buy, I've heard that the 580s behave better "out of the box" but don't have one myself so can't confirm.

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Hello,
First I'd like to start off by admitting that I'm a newb, so I apologize in advance if posting this was unnecessary, but I searched, and though I found many similar problems, I could not solve my problem.
As stated in the subject line, I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and I cannot make it work with the open source Nouveau driver.
When I try to boot the screen goes black.
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Okay, then onto the nvidia driver problem.
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Yea, I was only using tty because when I start x everything was either too large or couldn't see the command line to start x in the first place.
So how can I change my resolution (I've tried editing xorg.conf but once again, my attempt to solve my problem was fruitless).

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I get it, but i think it's a shame that such a great tool as raytrace is supported only by few cards, and very expensive too.
I'm not a professional user of AE, i just enjoy some of my free time with it, but i was thinking of upgrading to AE6 license. Unfortunately, i discovered that it doesnt support my video card (Radeon HD6850) for GPU rendering and in this setup i can go to sleep before a frame is rendered ( Phenom II X4, 8gb ram, i know it's not that much, but 3DS max is not that computationally important).

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It means that an x16 PCI-E video card will only get x4 lanes instead of x16 when used in that slot.
http://eu.msi.com/product/mb/870-G45.html#/?div=Detail
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I am trying to see if I can fit this card to my small box, which is Dell Inspiron 570 http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/insp560mt/en/sm/sysboard.htm#wp1181576. Physical dimensions of the board are very tight, so I need more detailed physical dimensions of MSI N550GTX-Ti Cyclone OC GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 210x140x35 mm is not enough, is this information actually exists? Preliminary measurements shows that there is the possibility to fit this card, however the fan shroud (and fan itself) might be overlapping with mobo heatsinks.
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Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
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SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): XXXXXXXXXXX
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F207BB72
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Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1900
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PCIe Lane Width: x16
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Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
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I might overstress this topic a bit, cause it is probably asked too many times already.
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I'm starting to look into setting up a complete new Windows-System and want to use Premiere Pro CS 6, not CC or newer.
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Yes it is indeed very confusing for a newbie, when you don't find newer cards on the official Adobe compatibility list. That's exactly my point. I don't want to spend so much money for something, that won't work in the end.
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Bill Gehrke,
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Can you post a link or explain me, how you configured Premiere Pro 6 and the GTX 970?
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Would be great, you could let me know.
Thanks again for all other posts so far.

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