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- 2019 iMac 27"; 2020 M1 MacBook Air; macOS up-to-date... always.
With Starcraft 2 on the horizon, and the likelihood of me being able to talk my wife into letting me get a new Mac being rather low, I'm looking at replacing my existing NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT graphics card with something a bit more capable in my Mac Pro tower, the first generation from 2006 (gawd… I hope I'll even be able to play it on this even with a GPU upgrade). My existing card pretty much stinks. Always has, and even more so by today's standards. At the moment, I'm looking at an ATI Radeon X1900, which was the only other original option aside from the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500. For games in particular, my understanding is that the Quadro isn't the better option. So aside from these, does anyone know of any other available graphics cards that would be a better choice, that would work in my Mac Pro? The slot is a "double-wide" 16-lane PCI Express slot, per Everymac.com.
Addendum: The bus is 667 MHz.
Also… I'm under the impression that you have to get a Mac-compatible graphics card even on the Intel Macs, thanks to the implementation of EFI. Am I correct on that? The Apple-branded cards are easily twice the cost of the "generic" PC ones. *sigh*
Addendum: The bus is 667 MHz.
Also… I'm under the impression that you have to get a Mac-compatible graphics card even on the Intel Macs, thanks to the implementation of EFI. Am I correct on that? The Apple-branded cards are easily twice the cost of the "generic" PC ones. *sigh*