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Using RED Rocket on 4x lane on MAC PRO Mid 2010

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Hi guys,

Specs:
mac pro mid 2010
48 gbs of ram (yea 48 baby!)
radeon 5770 (powering 27" cinema and an older samsung as secondary display)
nvidia 4800

so.. i wanna know if anyone has experience using a red rocket on the 4x pci slot on mac pro.

the rocket requires a 8x slot to work properly... but in the 4x slot, i still get a pretty decent output from it.

im using my radon to run my monitors and i leave the nvidia 4800 to run just GPU on davinci resolve and other apps.

i would love to hear opinions on this matter. im sure im not the only one who has ever encountered this. and perhaps some opinions on if i should just dump the radeon and run the monitors on nvidia.

another option would be getting an older nvidia card that is not a double wide and using that to power the monitors (which seems like the logical solution right now). something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001V3DZD4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&smid=A1ICP70WVTTYTX

(of course i know i could get a cubix but that is overkill right now)

thx in advance!
 
I'm running my rocket via a thunderbolt enclosure which is a 4x lane and it renders ou tin real time.. same speed as when it was in my 16x lane on my mac pro tower.
 
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