http://www.evga.com/forums/(c) EVGA Forums30I am sure you must have reseated your card a couple of times? Did you reset the PRAM and the SMC? My problem has been resolved, for the time being!http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=239194Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:46:25 GMTHow would someone test the auxillary power connectors, the GTX 285 of is getting the power it requires? Without Precision for OS X, also in the dark about what is going on I assume without running the Mac Pro in Windows. I asshttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=238720Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:09:25 GMTI've had a similar problem. First the mac would give me three flashes of the power light repeatedly when trying to boot up (which normally indicates RAM trouble). After trying to boot three times, the machine simply wouldn't power up anymore uhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=238506Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:34:31 GMTAfter reseating the card twice, everything is working and back to normal! I would like to know if anybody else had a similar experience and hope that the incident was a "one-off" thing.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=235182Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:17:18 GMTHi, does anyone have any luck with this? I'm interested in getting stereoscopic 3d running on my Mac Pro (early 2008 3,1 config) if possible and wondered if anyone has had a go with the following configuration: 1] Under Bootcamp ruhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233543Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:37:56 GMTAh, well, Apple does the drivers and has shown little interest in gaming. So some people boot into Windows. $200 vs $449 was hard to swallow (though with the spike in prices for any GTX 200 the "Apple tax" of $100 for an EFI-based card has narrowed.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233506Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:11:12 GMTI was more than happy with my new GTX 285's performance until this morning when it refused to power my screen! It is just on 3 months old. Replaced it with an NVIDIA GT 120 and was able to boot successfully. Hs anybody else had a similar experiencehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=231947Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:57 GMTI have been watching there. The mac version of this card doesn't seem to be very popular though. I found enough people with the Radeon 4870, to know that I should have no issue with it. What I am trying to find out if this card will dohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=231606Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:56:01 GMTI cant say with 100% certainty. But I dont see why not. The game looks great, yet is not that graphically demanding. I would ask around on the bioware forums to see if the card is supported by dragon age, it is really funny thhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=230798Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:20:47 GMTI have a 2009 Mac Pro with a GT120 right now. Was thinking of buying one of these GTX 285 cards (for use in bootcamp) but also for a few OS X games. Mainly I am interested in how this card runs the Mac version of Dragon Age. Can I run ahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=228713Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:57:33 GMTthanks for your help!!! http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=209041Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:08:06 GMTBarefeats has done a number of tests in games, pro apps, Windows. One such http://www.barefeats.com/nehal14.htmlhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=207811Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:05:58 GMTWoW is primarily a CPU-based game. This is for both PC and Mac environments. Other games/programs that are more GPU-based, like Call of Duty or Adobe Suite, will have more noticeable added performance.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=207263Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:38:52 GMTCan anyone recommend any tools I can use to test or investigate the performance of my 285? I just upgraded from a 120 to the 285, and I expected to see a major jump in performance with the 285 when playing WoW, but there has been little, if any, imhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=207231Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:22:12 GMTApple Store http://store.apple.com/us/product/TW387ZM/Ahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=204064Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:34:50 GMTBh photo says this card is discontinued. Is it true?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=203189Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:09:36 GMTBarefeats has a number of test results. http://www.barefeats.com/nehal11.html http://www.barefeats.com/nehal12.html http://www.barefeats.com/nehal14.html 10.5.8 When it came to Snow Leopard, things lohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=202937Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:16:00 GMTyes you can install both drivers, but it may not do every thing you would like. example you can run a ati as the primary and a nvidia for folding and physx. or if you just need more display outputs and happen to have a extra card lying around it would wohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=198815Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:30:50 GMTHow well does this card perform with final cut pro, color and motion?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=194821Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:29:20 GMTI'm planning on buying this card, how well does it perform with final cut pro, motion and color? http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=194383Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:31:01 GMTI'm planning on buying this card, how well does it perform with final cut pro, motion and color?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=194381Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:29:19 GMTYes, Snow Leopard does indeed have these drivers preinstalled within the OS. Good luck!http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=191740Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:20:44 GMTYou don't happen to be overclocking do you? Only reason I ask is I have had this EXACT issue happen when I run any benchmarks or games when I overclock my 285 (non mac).http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=175706Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:02:23 GMTCorrect, Snow Leopard has the 285 drivers preinstalled.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=167266Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:38:15 GMTNo issue with GTX-285 and clean installation of Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard has the current driver. You will have issues if you try installing any previous version, i.e., Leopard.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=166628Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:54:33 GMTSo I have an EVGA GTX 285 Mac installed in my Early 2008 Mac Pro. Am I going to have an issue if I need to do a clean install of Snow Leopard? Im not going to have to put in the stock GeForce 8800 GT to do so am I?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=165631Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:13:09 GMTI jusat upgraded to latest driver and it still says "driver stopped working. Now recovering"http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=161100Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:38:21 GMT And hopefully you've read up on Driver Sweeper and how to uninstall and clean out old drivers, link on EVGA 200 forum sticky. I read and got through the procedure for cleaning out old drivers with DS which shttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=151809Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:12:13 GMT And hopefully you've read up on Driver Sweeper and how to uninstall and clean out old drivers, link on EVGA 200 forum sticky. I will read up and download Driver Sweeper and the custom filter.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=151582Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:49:06 GMTI had a lot of problems with this card freezing and locking up my early 2008 Mac Intel Pro until I upgraded to OSX 10.5.8. It's been working OK in Windows via Bootcamp over January but now it is freezing and locking up. I installed the recenthttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=151568Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:39:40 GMT Does Win 7, 64bit support the installation of multiple graphics cards / drivers of differing manufacturers on the same motherboard (ie Nvidia and ATI)? The intention is to use only one of themhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=151068Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:41:31 GMT Does Win 7, 64bit support the installation of multiple graphics cards / drivers of differing manufacturers on the same motherboard (ie Nvidia and ATI)? The intention is to use only one of them at ahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=150007Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:53:57 GMT8.16.11.9107http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=145565Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:04:37 GMTDriver version?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=145042Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:46:55 GMTI replaced my GT8800 with a EVGA GTX 285 in my 2008 MacPro about a couple of months ago. Since then on about three or four occasions while running Vista Business 64 bit, the screen suddenly went black and after about ten seconds it came back up and I gohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=144898Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:33:20 GMTPhoto of card installed in 2009, the two aux power connectors are off to the left side. http://www.xlr8yourmac.co...X285_review/index.htmlhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=141325Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:24:27 GMTHello anim8me2, Please read this sticky first, and see if it answers your questions. http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=173http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=141050Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:45:03 GMTI have looked at the manual, searched online and I can't for the life of me find the power connection for this card on the motherboard. Late 2009 MacPro Quad 4,1 Anybody tell me where the hell these things plug in?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=140739Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:51:33 GMTThe GTX 285 requires 10.5.8 or later (10.6.1+ recommended). Should be a nice $449 upgrade for gaming! And hopefully you've read up on Driver Sweeper and how to uninstall and clean out old drivers, link on EVGA 200 forum sticky.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=138873Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:33:38 GMTHi solinacci, The card will work in XP via Bootcamp, but make sure to install the latest drivers for XP while in bootcamp to ensure stability.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=137417Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:51:00 GMTmy computer is Mac Pro (Early 2008 with 800Mhz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory).. I'm using Windows XP for gaming and Mac OS for applications (logic, ableton live; music production, etc.).. It had a Nvidia 8800 GT on it and that just had fried yesterday.. so i'm loohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=137248Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:46:35 GMTcoolhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=120456Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:54:12 GMT WoW is the culprit here. When the released the 3.3 patch, they forced users to use their latest and greatest gpu feature that was supposed to be ultra fast and great. Little did they know, it got bugged upon release and many pehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=110938Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:00:38 GMTYes, it would.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=110520Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:14:19 GMTI am loving my card btw but I had a question. Im going to be migrating over to and using windows 7 64bit as my primary OS on my mac pro. Does the GTX 285 Mac Edition perform the same as a GTX 285 Native PC version would?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=110443Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:23:46 GMTYour general point is true that when it's fixed it should run faster but the rest of the information you posted is pretty much false beyond that. The Windows client runs in Direct X unless you run the game with the -openGL flag enabled which is not defhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=109995Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:09:15 GMTWoW is the culprit here. When the released the 3.3 patch, they forced users to use their latest and greatest gpu feature that was supposed to be ultra fast and great. Little did they know, it got bugged upon release and many people have suffered the panihttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=108598Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:16:51 GMT I've been seeing the exact same thing. I'm playing WoW and the screen goes black. I'm playing WoW in windowed mode and the entire screen goes black, not just WoW. Requires me to take the machine down since it's ahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=108067Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:35:27 GMTtesthttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=97855Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:42:09 GMT Serial Number (system): xxxxxxxxxxx Hardware UUID: xxxxxxxx Best to leave those items out.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=72028Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:35:00 GMT