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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Graphics card for original MacPro 1,1
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<blockquote data-quote="AngryRedTicTac" data-source="post: 1161980" data-attributes="member: 184241"><p>I definitely got lucky on my card, there are 3 Apple Stores in town, only one had a card in, and they sounded suprised to discover they had one in stock. You won't be disappointed with the 5770, it's at least a 3x more powerful card that draws barely half the electricity of the X1900XT. I don’t know if you play any games, but picking up this card got me playing again. Crysis in XP is very smooth at 1680 with a lot of stuff turned on, and even 1920 works well if you don’t turn stuff up too high. Starcraft 2 flys in both XP and OSX. Now I just hope apple gets around to making better use of OpenCL in FCP iMovie, it would be great to tap the power of this card doing AVCHD crunching. Regardless, thank you ATI for supporting our old EFI32 machines a little longer!</p><p></p><p>I don't know if dual 30s will behave the same way, but my 22 and 27 like to be plugged into specific ports. A few people I've talked to have had this issue, one on a new 2010 Mac Pro, where one monitor won't wake from sleep. Switching which monitor was plugged in to each port solved it every time, just took a little fiddling. Since I got mine sorted it wakes and boots perfectly every time. Oh, if you do dual boot, you'll need the newest bootcamp update, the card will work without it, but not very well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AngryRedTicTac, post: 1161980, member: 184241"] I definitely got lucky on my card, there are 3 Apple Stores in town, only one had a card in, and they sounded suprised to discover they had one in stock. You won't be disappointed with the 5770, it's at least a 3x more powerful card that draws barely half the electricity of the X1900XT. I don’t know if you play any games, but picking up this card got me playing again. Crysis in XP is very smooth at 1680 with a lot of stuff turned on, and even 1920 works well if you don’t turn stuff up too high. Starcraft 2 flys in both XP and OSX. Now I just hope apple gets around to making better use of OpenCL in FCP iMovie, it would be great to tap the power of this card doing AVCHD crunching. Regardless, thank you ATI for supporting our old EFI32 machines a little longer! I don't know if dual 30s will behave the same way, but my 22 and 27 like to be plugged into specific ports. A few people I've talked to have had this issue, one on a new 2010 Mac Pro, where one monitor won't wake from sleep. Switching which monitor was plugged in to each port solved it every time, just took a little fiddling. Since I got mine sorted it wakes and boots perfectly every time. Oh, if you do dual boot, you'll need the newest bootcamp update, the card will work without it, but not very well. [/QUOTE]
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