![]() You also need to be careful about power draw, as you don't want to go over about 250watts maximum draw from your video card in the Mac Pro. You need to download the nVidia web drivers for OS X, and you won't see a boot screen (the screen will remain black until the drivers are loaded- sometime around the point where your login appears). Find a used over clocked/higher memory GTX 680 that is not mac specific.They are roughly $300 on eBay, and "just work." They will support 4k for typical 2D work, however if you want to go 3D, they will be a bit anemic (you really want a card with 4 gigs of memory for 3D 4k) Find a used EVGA Nvidia GTX 680 Mac edition.I would make 3 suggestions as to what you might do: I am currently in the process of extending the life of my MacPro (2009) by doing a significant upgrade- upgrading processors, hard drives to SATA3 SSDs (adding an SATA 3 PCIe card) and upgrading my graphics card to support 4k.
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