2010 MacPro - Can I use an old NVIDIA 7300GT card for 3rd screen?

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2010 MacPro - Can I use an old NVIDIA 7300GT card for 3rd screen?

I have a new 2010 MacPro with a an ATI Radeon HD 5770 card. I need to connect a third screen to the system but dont want to have to shell out for another 5770 card or buy that DVI Dual Link cable either as I have an old MacPro (1,1) with 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT cards in.

Can I take out one of those cards and run it in the new MacPro?

MacPro 5,1 4x2.8 10Gb 3Tb ATI 5770MacPro 1,1 2x2.55Dual 10Gb 3.5Tb 2x GeForce7300Gt, Mac OS X (10.6.6), MacBook Pro 2.33Ghz

Posted on Jan 28, 2011 5:44 AM

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Answer 1

DPArt

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Jan 30, 2011 3:58 PM in response to MacUtopia

No.

Won't work

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Answer 2

The hatter

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Jan 30, 2011 4:05 PM in response to MacUtopia

Give your MacPro 1,1 a 5770 and dump the 7300s before they die unless it is just sitting there. In which case that could fetch $799 probably or a bit more.

Gotta love the dual link DVI $199 proprietary cables and all that makes a 2nd graphic card make sense but only in Mac kingdom.

If you do heavy CS5 and can see the benefit of faster and smoother graphics, there is the $1195 CUDA capable Quadro 4000 from nVidia.

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MacUtopia Author

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Feb 1, 2011 7:17 AM in response to MacUtopia

Thanks for your help guys - I managed to sort it by buying 2 of those DVI Dual Link cables cheap from a mac shop for less than £60 ($96).

But it seems like madness to have 3 ports and only 2 can work out of the box - just confusing.

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Answer 4

jmac1957

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Feb 12, 2011 7:57 PM in response to MacUtopia

Im in the same boat

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2751411&tstart=0

Malcolm may have a solution

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