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I would like to know if the Nvidia GTX 690 is working in Mountain Lion.

I have 3 monitors and would like the very best video card.

Is there someone who successfully installed OSX 10.8 with this card?

Thanks
 
It will work and should show 2 Cards just like the dual 5770 apple offers. but for three displays you shouldn't need 2 cards since many support atleast 4 now a days.
 
It has been said that this card is not working.
 
ericsuchet said:
I would like to know if the Nvidia GTX 690 is working in Mountain Lion.

I have 3 monitors and would like the very best video card.

Is there someone who successfully installed OSX 10.8 with this card?

Thanks
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You might be able to get it work, the problem is that the main reason to get one, namely SLI, does NOT work under OSX. There is no support for any of the multi-graphics card technologies in OSX.

So at best, you are paying for a less flexible pair of 680s, where you can't remove one of them if necessary for troubleshooting. More likely you are paying twice as much for what is essentially a single slightly underclocked 680.

Save yourself some money, time and hassle. Just get a single 680. If you really want to use an SLI set up you can install 2 cards and game with them under windows. But even a single 670 will handle gaming on a 2560x1440 monitor with the settings cranked up all the way.

Well at least with games that aren't so poorly optimized for OSX that no amount of horsepower is going to make a difference (a depressingly large number of games).
 
ggeorge said:
You might be able to get it work, the problem is that the main reason to get one, namely SLI, does NOT work under OSX. There is no support for any of the multi-graphics card technologies in OSX.

So at best, you are paying for a less flexible pair of 680s, where you can't remove one of them if necessary for troubleshooting. More likely you are paying twice as much for what is essentially a single slightly underclocked 680.

Save yourself some money, time and hassle. Just get a single 680. If you really want to use an SLI set up you can install 2 cards and game with them under windows. But even a single 670 will handle gaming on a 2560x1440 monitor with the settings cranked up all the way.

Well at least with games that aren't so poorly optimized for OSX that no amount of horsepower is going to make a difference (a depressingly large number of games).
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I think the 690 is a better choice over 2x 680 because the noise level and power consumption. I 'll pick one up tomorrow.
 
uvitor said:
I think the 690 is a better choice over 2x 680 because the noise level and power consumption. I 'll pick one up tomorrow.
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It's not going to have significantly lower power consumption or noise.

The power consumption is dictated by the GPU chips, which is obviously going to be the same.

There's a single reference design, which means there are none of the customized coolers that can significantly lower the noise vs a reference card.

I've got basically as powerful a system as you can build for general use under OSX (multi-core applications excluded) and the bottleneck isn't my system on a bunch of the games. It's the poorly optimized nature of a lot of the games for OSX.

Unless you plan to do a lot of gaming in windows, you are spending a lot of money uselessly for some bragging rights.
 
Just an update for the op: GTX 690 is working like a charm including Full Graphics Support, OpenCL (pached), OpenGL (OOB) and HDMI audio(edited DSDT).
 
ericsuchet said:
I have 3 monitors and would like the very best video card.
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Right now the best single card you can get which will support 3 monitors is the 6870. nVidia cards only support 2 monitors per card in OSX. . . at least right now . . . although this may never change.
 
It surprised me even if the early reports had said that this card is not working.:oops:
 
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