Installing a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition in a 2010 Mac Pro

Long live the 5,1, shame that it is that I am using am 8-year-old computer.

If anyone from Apple is listening, my 7,1 wishlist:

Thanks

Lance Mcvickar wrote:

Maybe it was looking for CUDA cores and turned off that function "enhancements"

Could be. Other than some coin mining software I tried to run, this is the first time an app could not detect the card. Seems fine now. File under "Who Knows?"

Lance Mcvickar wrote:

How are the fans in the Vega 64 noise level wise when your rendering stuff?

Sorry, I just realized I clicked on your links, got sucked into Beth Hart YouTube, and never answered your question.

Much quieter than my previous Sapphire R9 290X, which worked great but was a noisy beast with it's double fan design. I much prefer the sealed design of the Vega with hot air sucked out the back of the case

I have 29 Ultrastars in 2 RAID cases, so it's a pretty noisy studio to begin with, even with the quietest fans I could find. Yes, it's annoying.

I have nothing against FCPX, and I use it a couple of times a year at client request and have very few issues with it. I find Motion much less compelling. I will likely be buried with my After Effects 3.1 serial-port license dongle 😉

My biggest issue is that I am taking a wait-and-see attitude towards all Apple products until I can get a better grip on their long-term commitment to the pro market through 2018 and 2019. I feel really burnt by the 2013 Mac Pro (and subsequent inattention to pro hardware), as well as the bungled FCPX transition. I would feel better if FCPX updates were more timely and robust. Or that it wasn't going to take them a year to introduce a new Mac Pro design, to replace what they now admit was a failed experiment with our livelihoods. The iMac Pro has all the same issues as the 2013 Mac Pro, and comes at a high cost.

I need to plan hardware upgrades in 3-year increments, and new video cards every 18 months, and Apple has introduced too much uncertainty into my calculations

For now, I've taken this 2010 Mac Pro as far as I'm going to take it, and, like I said, wait and see what this and next year bring, and try to keep and open mind. I've been an Apple customer since 1981 (not a typo), so they have a large reservoir of goodwill with me, but it is running empty.

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Anyway, sorry to rant at you, let us know how the upgrade goes this weekend. Don't forget to do some tests before the upgrade for comparison (I usually forget). Good luck

Harumph. Likely still there from when I had the 980 Ti installed. How do I change that?

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

yes that looks like an AMD driver panic. but why are these NVRAM variables set this way:

Boot args: kext-dev-mode=1 nvda_drv=1

I thought that implied you wanted to use only the NVIDIA Drivers.

Thanks for the heads up. Seems to only happen with AE renders while I keep my time tracking app going (Timing.app).

Very nice! I love Beth Hart, so badass. Great edits.

Very nice. Front and Center looks like fun.

They run side by side. The regular one in the case powers everything but the card and the Thermaltake powers the card via some extension cables out the back.