Mac version of GTX 280?

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Any news on a Mac version of GTX 280?

On another note, does anyone have experience with PC-based cards on Mac Pro? Since Mac-based GTX 280 might be months away, I plan to use a PC-based GTX 280 on Windows on my Mac (boot-camped, of course). I’m wondering if it boots up at all with a non-Mac card. Would EFI allows a PC card at boot time?

thanks

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Maybe you answered this meantime, but as I see no answer here: this all works on an 08 Mac pro with a 260 (216) with windows xp under bootcamp and an 8800GT in the other slot to drive the monitor (and give a display during boot and under Mac OS). I am using an external PSU. no life from 260 from OS X 10.5.6. Will probably switch in a 285 for fun shortly. See no reason why stock 280 would not work in same way. Under XP CUDA recognizes both GPUs.

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Is the GTX 280 supported on Mac OSX?

Compiling trivial device check code using Toolbox v2.1, I find no supported devices.

Any ideas?

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Because Macs use EFI rather than the normal PC BIOS, graphics cards for PCs do not work in OS X. They need different firmware to be recognized by a Mac. The card should work if you use Bootcamp to boot your Mac into Linux or Windows, however. Bootcamp emulates the PC BIOS sufficiently to allow the card to function properly.

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Thanks!

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There is some info on aquamac.proboards.com that appear to show twin 280s in a hackintosh version of a Mac Pro, running under Snow Leopard and using a PC version of EFI. Not a million miles away from what we want, though it seems to need 10.6, and I do not quite see how it would work on a real Mac Pro (yet)

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Looks like there’s good news coming… External Image

AppleInsider.com : NVIDIA prepping GeForce GTX 285 for Mac Pro