Originally Posted by
Bill, 70's military B&W
Thanks to everyone,
I have been out of town and just opened the Mac today, what a beast, it came as advertised, Quadro 4000 for Mac and a 5770.
The previous owner put a note in with it saying:
"The Quadro should not have any monitors connected to it because it serves as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) for the operating system."
That shot down all my thoughts of what I thought I knew. I am back to knowing nothing. I read too much and DO NOT know what to believe.
For example:
Quadro HAS TO be used with another card, can not be used alone, not a stand alone card... read that a couple of places, God knows where?
If you connect 2 monitors up to just the 5770 then the 4000 sits in the case idle and does nothing, except generate noise and heat,
Hook up the 2 monitors to the 4000 using the DP and Dual Link DVI, 'NEC said that', but they were unfamiliar with the Quardo 4000,
Take out the 5770 and just use the 4000,
5870 is a better card with dual monitors that have a wide color gamut, 5770 will not cut it, specs seem to support that, (for what I know just reading specs.)
Most have said take out the 4000 and just use the 5770
4000 will not help with 2D images, BUT works great in CS6,
I went to Nvidia website and to the Apple website, worthless waste of time, absolutely no help found there. Called the Genius Hotline at Apple (twice) and they shuffle me back and forth because, it sounds like to me that they absolutely do not know ANYTHING about the Quadro card. Both times they referred me to a Forum so that other users will answer the question for me. So far the answer from the Forum is to sell both cards and buy another card that is super for gaming, I am not a gamer. Truthfully they never tried answering my simple question.
Nvidia website has nothing useful, it has a Forum that almost completely is for GeForce cards set up for PC's/Windows, they ignore Mac except for a couple Bootcamp applications. I found my question there in several places, no one has ever posted an answer! I search using Key Words and get nothing.
It is simple question, how to best connect 2 wide color gamet NEC monitors to a Mac Pro, 5.1 that has a Quadro 4000 and a 5770? I'm sure it will work (somewhat) connected several different ways. But which to get the best results from the monitors and printer?
Mac STILL sells both CARDS with the Mac Pro, but I can not find anything reliable on how to connect 2 NEC wide color gamet monitors.
I have been trying to answer that question for close to 3 weeks, and still can not hook it up with confidence that I have it connected in a way that will give me the best color calibration/reproduction. I am afraid that just because it is hooked up and looks pretty, IS IT RIGHT? Is it optimized for the correct color on the monitor and be calibrated with the 3880 printer. If I do not have confidence then I will not use it confidently, and that is not acceptable. I have forked out over $5,000 and do not want to settle for "MAYBE" it is connected correctly. I have also spent easily over 50 hours on the Internet and on the phone trying to get the answer.....result is I still know nothing, confidently.
Does anyone have a source that can answer this very basic and simple question? If not, I am probably going to scrap that damn card and pick up a 5870 and put this behind me.
Again thanks, to everyone, I have gotten more help here that anywhere else,
Bill
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