MacPro with QuadroFX 4000 card to Thunderbolt Display

I have a 12 Core MacPro with a NVIDIA QuadroFX4000 with dual DVI ports currently connected to 2 24" Dell monitors. I want to by a couple of Thunderbolt Displays but want preserve my investment on the NVIDIA card. What are my options?

There is no way to use Thunderbolt displays with Mac Pros. You can use the Mini DisplayPort version of the display.
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Hi,
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Could my current mac with the Mini DisplayPort use thunderbolt displays? Even any other thunderbolt technology?

i am in the market for a new desktop computer, iMac or new Macpro if coming soon and priced right. i want two displays and I want my current Macbook Pro end 2008 with the Mini DisplayPort to be able to us a hunderbolt display. is this possible?
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John Hammer1 wrote:
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I just bought a brand new 8 core Mac Pro and have both the ATI 4870 graphics card and the Nvidia GT 120 card. Pshop CS3 allows me to "enable openGL" in the prefs and utiizes it when doing 3d stuff... however, CS4 has it dimmed in the prefs, thereby not allowing me to check it (it is dimmed and unchecked I should say) and when I do 3d stuff a dialog box saying
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2 nVidia cards doesn't buy you any performance increases. They don't talk to each other to improve performance in Mac OSX. Multiple cards is mostly for supporting multiple displays. How many displays do you have?
Apple has some initial performance benchmarks:
http://www.apple.com/macpro/features/graphics.html
Scroll down to see the graphs. The HD4870 destroys the GT120
Message was edited by: Wormy-san
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No.
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Hi community,
I have Samsung series 9 laptop with Intel 4000 card on board. I have two 23" monitors attached to this laptop via hdmi and vga. I have this weird screen flicker issue even on one monitor attached to the laptop.
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Gnome 3.12.x here.
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Output for drm:
$ dmesg | grep drm
[ 1.823113] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 1.925602] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M
[ 1.925608] fb: switching to inteldrmfb from VESA VGA
[ 1.975297] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 1.975299] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
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Just for more clarity, here is how it actually look like(for me it happens in intervals and can be any screen at a time):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NES1rgwNyc
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Can i use the thunderbolt display with a windows laptop running a AMD Radeon HD 8600M Series

Running windows 7 on a Dell laptop with docking station connecting to thunderbolt display using a mini display port DVI adapter. Windows machine will not detect the display. Any ideas?

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Thunderbolt display failed?

Hi I picked up a thunderbolt display second hand to go with my brand new macbook pro 15inch with twin graphics cards.
The display is 8 months old and I saw it working with my new laptop no bother and indeed back at home used it for a round an hour no bother.
Then I played on minecraft on the TB display after a while it sunddenly flickered on and off and so too did the screen on the laptop. then the thunderbolt screen went blackk. And thats where I am.
The ethernet, usbs and isight are all working as too is the sound but there is no display.
I have tried with three different macbooks, two airs and this main one, screen stays black.
None of the macs are even flashing to indicate that its detected a display, its like its not there.
Any ideas?

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In any given event the transmitted frames are all the same and appear to be random data from memory. They make no sense as traffic: they have garbage MAC addresses and hence the "unknown unicast traffic storm".
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Here is trace data from a different event.
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Branden

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I have read information on various forums that suggest it will work and others that say it will not.
Will a Thunderbolt Display work with a video card that has mini-display ports or does it have to specifically say it is a Thunderbolt port?
Does anyone have a clear answer?

see this post - you will not be able to run a tb monitor on the older silver tower mac pro's
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6210828?tstart=0
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