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<blockquote data-quote="Tuppy" data-source="post: 1918393" data-attributes="member: 408224"><p>Thanks yet again, Nick!</p><p></p><p>It seems to me like the Radeon 7950 might be the card to get. OWC is sold out of them, but the <a href="https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sapphire/100352MAC2/" target="_blank">sales page</a> that OWC has for them says that the card has something called AMD Stream Technology that can speed up video encoding (also known as rendering, I think).</p><p></p><p>Here's quote from that OWC webpage: "AMD Stream Technology allows you to use the teraflops of computing power locked up in your graphics processor on tasks other than traditional graphics such as video encoding, at which the graphics processor is many, many times faster than using the CPU alone."</p><p></p><p>So that might be a bonus, aside from the ability to drive big monitors at high resolution.</p><p></p><p>On Ebay there is a seller of these cards, <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/115080134296?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11051.m43.l1123&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=ccd712480a2d41aa97746dc56a72b5d2&bu=43186662650&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20220915221848&segname=11051" target="_blank">here</a>, (he's sold 63 of them, with two left) who I questioned about them, and he says that his cards are not original Apple cards but are flashed to be used in Mac Pros and behave like the Apple edition. As he put it: "It is a flashed card with the latest 7950 hardware."</p><p></p><p>His ad says that it will work with Mac OS from 10.8.3 up to the current OS, which means that it would work in El Capitan (10.11). He says that they are not mining cards but are pulls from Mac Pros. Another good thing is that he has a 100% good feedback rating and accepts returns.</p><p></p><p>I don't know anything about flashed cards. Are PC cards that are flashed to work with Macs considered to be as capable and reliable as the original Mac Edition cards that were sold by Apple?</p><p></p><p>If they are, then this might be the one to get, and from this particular Ebay seller, too, since he takes returns. I could buy it from him, try it out with the big <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HDBD9CM/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">Dell U3219Q monitor</a> that's arriving here on Monday, and also see how it works with video editing, in case it speeds anything up. If it doesn't work with the monitor, or there's something else objectionable about it, I could just send it back for a refund.</p><p></p><p>Sound reasonable to you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuppy, post: 1918393, member: 408224"] Thanks yet again, Nick! It seems to me like the Radeon 7950 might be the card to get. OWC is sold out of them, but the [URL='https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sapphire/100352MAC2/']sales page[/URL] that OWC has for them says that the card has something called AMD Stream Technology that can speed up video encoding (also known as rendering, I think). Here's quote from that OWC webpage: "AMD Stream Technology allows you to use the teraflops of computing power locked up in your graphics processor on tasks other than traditional graphics such as video encoding, at which the graphics processor is many, many times faster than using the CPU alone." So that might be a bonus, aside from the ability to drive big monitors at high resolution. On Ebay there is a seller of these cards, [URL='https://www.ebay.com/itm/115080134296?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11051.m43.l1123&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=ccd712480a2d41aa97746dc56a72b5d2&bu=43186662650&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20220915221848&segname=11051']here[/URL], (he's sold 63 of them, with two left) who I questioned about them, and he says that his cards are not original Apple cards but are flashed to be used in Mac Pros and behave like the Apple edition. As he put it: "It is a flashed card with the latest 7950 hardware." His ad says that it will work with Mac OS from 10.8.3 up to the current OS, which means that it would work in El Capitan (10.11). He says that they are not mining cards but are pulls from Mac Pros. Another good thing is that he has a 100% good feedback rating and accepts returns. I don't know anything about flashed cards. Are PC cards that are flashed to work with Macs considered to be as capable and reliable as the original Mac Edition cards that were sold by Apple? If they are, then this might be the one to get, and from this particular Ebay seller, too, since he takes returns. I could buy it from him, try it out with the big [URL='https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HDBD9CM/?tag=macforums0e4-20']Dell U3219Q monitor[/URL] that's arriving here on Monday, and also see how it works with video editing, in case it speeds anything up. If it doesn't work with the monitor, or there's something else objectionable about it, I could just send it back for a refund. Sound reasonable to you? [/QUOTE]
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