MacPro, Octane and GTX460

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ChicagoArch
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I've seen a decent amount of posts regarding what graphics card to purchase/use on a MacPro using Bootcamp. It seems that the GTX460 has been recommended as a good card. Two questions regarding this:

1) Performance-wise (not considering cost) is the GTX460 recommended over the Quadro 4000?

2) Since the GTX460 is not a mac card, would this require flashing the card?

Appreciate the help!
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t_3
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the gtx 460 has nearly 50% more shader cores (336 vs. 256), nearly 50% higher cpu clock (~700 vs. 475 mhz), a higher vram clock (1800 vs. 1400 mhz) and the same vram interface (256 bits) - so i assume the 460 is giving substantial better performance in octane.

as i'm no mac user, i just can't tell, if it is possible to flash a 460 for use in a mac...
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Don't forget only 224 of those cores are active for Octane.
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Maryus3D
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Here you'll find more info about non apple labeled cars on a mac pro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYa39Y5nR6A

This guy run octane on 2x GTX 580 under OSX using Lion and ATY-injector kext from netkas.
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t_3
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pixelrush wrote:Don't forget only 224 of those cores are active for Octane.
why? just curious to know as windows user ;)
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