Hi all,
So I just got a mac to replace my old PC, it's not brand new but it's a second hand Mac Pro 2x2.26 Ghz Quad (2009).
It came with a nvidia gt120 512mb, so I'm going to upgrade the graphics card and I wanted to get some recommendations from people who know the stuff. Ideally I'd like to spend maybe around 300$ for the card, so what's the best I can get around this price range?
I'm going to use this for video and sound editing, color grading and of course after effect compositing in CS6.
Should I go nvidia or ATI?
Is the quadro 600 any good? (it's not super expensive and supports CUDA right?)
Should I look into PC cards flashed for Mac? And if so which model would be a good fit?
If you were in my position which card would you get?
Also I'm planning on using a SSD for cache only. Will that increase the performance of the system a lot? Would 128GB SSD would be enough knowing I will use it ONLY for cache purposes?
Thank you