Nvidia FX 4500 + GeForce 7300 for 3 DVI Displays

I am running a mac pro with FX4500 connecting to two displays. Now I want to add one - could I add a GeForce 7300 to run with FX4500 for the third display ?

Any performance considerations / impact of using this mix-n-match combinations - as the 2 cards are very different in power.
Not today although that "may" change in the future.
Current applications that utilise the power of the GPU, such as Final Cut Studio and games, can only do so with a single CPU. So, as long as you main display(s) are connected to your Quadro you'll be fine. That then reverts additional cards to the task of simply displaying video which even the Intel GMA950 in the MacBook/Mac mini is capable of doing.
Where this may change is when application begin to be able to harness the power of multiple GPUs. This is not the same as SLI or Crossfire. For instance, Final Cut Studio being able to utilise the processing power in all of your GPUs concurrently. Also, games that are able to span multiple displays the similarity of the GPU power may begin to matter… imagine playing Unreal Tournament on 3 x 30" displays .

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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Apple/6615718/
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I'm glad to have Adobe's Open GL rendering enabled with an OEM graphics GPU that runs cool and requires no imbedded cooling fan. Apples OEM nVidia GeForce 7300 GT, for the Mac Pro, is on Adobe's list of unsupported GPUs for Open GL rendering under Photoshop CS4, so why is it supported now? Is that just one of the benefits of the Photoshop CS4 11.0.2 update?

Chirs, thanks for your info but you are talking about Photoshop CS5, which does not support OpenGL drawing on the Mac nVidia 7300 or the Mac Radeon X1900. As long as I am using Photoshop CS4 and have not yet upgraded to CS5, I can continue to use the Mac nVidia 7300 and get limited OpenGL drawing support from Photoshop. And it is working fine.
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I appriciate an Adobe employee, like yourself, providing the information I need to make the right hardware choices when upgrading to Adobe CS5.

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Hi
Its very simple. You need an compatible graphic driver!!!
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Hi,
We have 4 "identical" NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB cards in one Mac Pro (to support 8 DVI monitors for a Network Operations Center). One card came with the system, the other cards were purchased from Apple at the same time. This was a refurbished computer, so we didn't have the build-to-order option. I put identical in quotes because they seem to have different ROM revisions.
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l_elephant wrote:
I notice that the flasher is connected to a card with ROM revision 3011, the later one.
I noticed this too.
now, to the slot profiles.
you say;
"The first one that I enter is the one to the right (looking from the back of the system)."
so you mean that the mac is laying on its side and your in the back, and what you call 'slot 1' is to the right? is that correct?
No, the system is upright, but the cards are horizontally seated. Pardon my ascii art, but here's the layout if I look from the back of the Mac Pro:
| DVI DVI ---->> slot 4
| DVI DVI ---->> slot 3
| DVI DVI ---->> slot 2
| DVI DVI ---->> slot 1
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Either the left (as pictured) is lane 1, or the right (as pictured) is lane 2.
i ask because i'm wondering if your reproducing the way the expansion slot utility is graphically portraying it. I'm pretty sure the utility is showing the slots as if the mac is upright and the person is looking into the side of it with the access panel off.
Okay, sounds logical!
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Probably correct.
In my utility window, it is the fourth configuration, so you would have at the moment;
slot4__x4__22" and 22"
slot3__x4__42" and 22" flasher
slot2__x8__22" and empty
slot1__x8__22" and 22"
I think that you have 2 and 3 reversed.
i would suggest trying the third configuration thusly;
slot4__x8__22" and 22"
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slot2__x8__42" and 22" flasher
slot1__x8__22" and 22"
in other words, check off the third configuration in the utility, then
exchange the connections on the second and third cards, leaving the first and fourth cards be.
Okay, will do.
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Oh, and another question, does it always, always flash when you boot-up?
Do you guys shut down the system every night?
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That card is only for the Mac Pro, as it says.
When you ordered your G5, you had the choice of the nVidia 6600 (or 6600LE), nVidia 7800GT, or the Quadro FX 4500.
The 7800GT that you could have ordered with your G5 is close in performance to the ATi X1900XT that is an option on the Mac Pro. The 7300GT that you're looking at is an entry level card, which the 7800GT definitely is not.
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Now, most PCI-Express cards that you look at for, say, external SATA, will probably work in both the G5 and the Mac Pro. You'd still want to check the specs to be sure, however.
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I have a Mac Pro 2006-2008 fitted with a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB, it has two DVI outputs.
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Welcome to Discussions!
Yes, the 7300 GT will support two displays at 1920 x 1200.
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Support for digital resolutions up to 1920 by 1200 pixels; dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels
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Dual-display support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP30

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Hey KB
Thanks for the input! I read your thread before starting this one. I guess I shouldn't hope for much with a 7300GT, but I just want to see the bristle brush preview. Is that too much to ask?
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Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
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Device ID: 0x0393
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