PowerDVD, Blu-ray, NVIDIA GeForce 120 GT and BootCamp

Hello Everyone,
I am interested in purchasing PowerDVD 9 to play-back Blu-Ray movies with my Mac Pro and its GeForce 120 GT graphics card under BootCamp. Does anyone know if this combination works? I've gone to Cyberlink's support pages, and it has as minimums and recommended, GPUs that are in between the 120 GT but doesn't specifically state support for it. Can anyone confirm if this will work? Thanks.

I have a word for the GT120, "neutered." As low as you can go on the food chain in graphics.
You can't mix ATI and Nvidia, and the 8800GT is EOL. The ATI 4870 is a nice option.

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If I replaced the ATI Radeon X1900 with a NVIDIA GeForce 120, would I be asking for trouble?
If your Mac Pro came with ATI Radeon X1900, then it needs a card with EFI-32 firmware. The NVIDIA GeForce 120 has EFI-64 firmware, and won't work in the pre 2008 Mac Pro. The only upgrade for early Mac Pros is the ATI Radeon HD 4870
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB999ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MTA4MzU2NTc>
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if i buy a blue ray with a digital copy and if i download the movie on my PC from work, i will be able to download it on my Mac at home later on?

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Hi I would maybe get a Apple Upgrade Kit the GT 120 is 512MB's & dose not use all 16 lanes as it like to make you think & will work on 2006 Mac Pro's at $149.00 I would say if you just want more displays get two & eBay your old cards. Please know if you game you will want more power but if only for more displays this 1 slot card is great.
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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory delivers excellent all-around performance whether your playing games or dealing with creative and scientific applications. With up to four NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics cards installed, a Mac Pro can support up to eight displays simultaneously.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 includes two video ports: one Mini DisplayPort and one dual-link DVI port. This allows you to connect both the 24-inch Apple LED Cinema Display or another Mini DisplayPort-based display, and a DVI-based display such as the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. Display adapters are available to connect VGA displays.
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Okay so I did try to run everything through the Yamaha receiver and the refresh rate is just to slow. I put in the DVD Salt and as soon as there was a chase scene I got lot of blurring. Since I'm not going to get a new receiver any time soon is a HDMI to the TV and an optical to the receiver the best option?
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I assume you know what Nvidia's GPGPU and CUDA (as well as PhysX) are and about, and how Adobe and Nvidia have shown what can be done off-loading some of the work the processor use to have to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA - has been updated recently too. It is NOT just aimed at OpenCL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda3_0downloads.html
Maybe there is some porting of CUDA to OpenCL going on though, depending how you read it. From Nvidia:
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a new cross-vendor standard for heterogeneous computing that runs on the CUDA architecture. Using OpenCL, developers will be able to harness the massive parallel computing power of NVIDIA GPU’s to create compelling computing applications.
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