How do I install the NVIDIA 4000 card?

Question

I am putting in the Nvidia Quadro 4000 graphics card in my early 2008 Mac Pro 3,1.  I installed my RAM as well as my hard drives but I must admit this is something I have not done before to this extent. Do I need to be grounded? And does someone know of a video that I could use to guide me through this. I just don't really have the budget to hire somebody to do it at this point in time. The graphics card itself and wiped me out… Wasn't planning on the other one to fail.
Thanks for all of your help, everyone on this form is so genuinely helpful, respectful and considerate and I really appreciate it!
Cheers!

Answer 1

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Juice Mac Pro Photoshop w/ video card:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365904
Fastest GPU Mac Pro with EFI Support (the GTX 570 discussion)
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1360927
- jump to the end of the thread first, then go backwards
Barefeats: Photoshop CS6 Graphics CUDA OpenCL
http://www.barefeats.com/aecs6.html
Every Mac with an NVIDIA GPU blew away the Mac Pro with AMD GPU. That's because the ray-traced 3D render option requires CUDA support.
Our 6-core Mac Pro with Quadro 4000 was at least 10 times faster than the same Mac Pro with the Radeon HD 5870. I say "at least" because the times in the graph are an optimistic guesstimate.
The CPU was loafing along while the NVIDIA CUDA "aware" GPU was doing all the heavy lifting. This is due to the fact that the ray-traced 3D animation was made of solids with no external media or textures.
Conversely, the CPU of the Mac Pro with the AMD GPU was running at full tilt (1200%) while the RadeonHD 5870 was "taking a coffee break" -- since it does not have CUDA support (proprietary to NVIDIA).
The more cores you have, the faster your CPU intensive After Effects CS6 project will render -- especially if you optimize the multiprocessing settings in Preferences. However, the Mac Pro with 8-cores is not twice as fast as the MacBook Pro or iMac with 4-cores. Nor is the 12-core Mac Pro three times faster. The more memory, the better.
There are those who pay extra to have GTX 570 flashed PC card to boost CS6 wtih CUDA.http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1366650
http://myworld.ebay.com/macvidcards/
GPU acceleration in After Effects CS6: Which Mac does it better?
http://www.barefeats.com/aecs6.html
GTX 670 is going to be well valued video card
http://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/27582/point-of-view-heeft-geforce-gtx-670-gereed
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/4710/nvidia_geforce_gtx_670_2gb_video_card_per formance_preview/index15.html
GTX 570 2.5GB with its 2.5GB VRAM. $349.
http://www.evga.com/products/
To get a boot screen means modifying the card which means sending it to Calif and $100 + shipping.
Some people use the GTX purely for CUDA and still use ATI 5770 for their monitor.
Amazon Q4K
http://www.amazon.com/PNY-DisplayPort-Profesional-Graphics-VCQ4000MAC-PB/dp/B004 CRS78O
Comparing 5770 to Q4K:
http://www.jigsaw3d.com/articles/gpu-performance-review-nvidia-quadro-4000-for-m ac
Quadro CUDA driver support
http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html
Graphic Cards OS X
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,2037.0.html
Nvidia Update - GTX680 and DP2/DP3 10.7.3/10.7.4 11e35 11e46 11e52 193i
« Reply #50 on: July 10, 2012, 01:57:45 PM »
Nvidia Update - GTX680 and DP2/DP3 10.7.3/10.7.4
I've tried a Zotac GTX670 (2GB) on a 8-core MP 4,1.  Boots fine into Lion 10.7.4 using the MBP ATI/NVidia driver posted elsewhere. 
Adobe Speedgrade LOVES it.  Realtime playback of r3d files with multiple layers of CC, masks, etc.
Premiere will _NOT_ playback video.  Crashes+burns *everytime* with hardware MPE enabled.  Doesn't matter what the source footage is (h.264, .r3d, ProRes).  Turn off hardware MPE and Premiere is fine again, but obviously that defeats the purpose.  Premiere crashing doesn't seem to affect system stability.
I would guess it's an issue with CUDA - Speedgrade uses OpenGL, not CUDA.  Would love to hear success stories on this one.  Will test AE, since Adobe did a patch for that for Kepler support.  But, AE might be using OpenGL as well, not sure.
UPDATE #1: AE does NOT recognize the card as a CUDA enabled option.  Greyed out, CPU acceleration only.  This is in contrast to Premiere which allows the use of the card for acceleration, but crashes.
UPDATE #2: Did fresh install, applied .5 Delta update and installed the Kepler Driver Package.  Premiere no longer crashes.  AE is happy (after adding "GK104" to the raytracer_supported_cards.txt in the AE.app directory.   So now I can get down to testing.  I will be testing the Zotac against an Asus GTX560 DirectCU Overclocked and Asus GTX570 DirectCU.  The Zotac has 2GB VRAM, the Asus' have 1GB each.
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,2037.msg13469.html#msg13469
GTX 570 Mac Pro, CS6 benefits and more:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1366650
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1269257
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365904
http://myworld.ebay.com/macvidcards/
GTX 670:
http://netkas.org/
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,2037.0.html
http://forum.netkas.org/
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php?&board=6.0