- #Best video card for early 2008 mac pro for mac#
- #Best video card for early 2008 mac pro upgrade#
- #Best video card for early 2008 mac pro pro#
#Best video card for early 2008 mac pro pro#
You just need to be careful to save any documents before the MacPro goes into sleep mode. Mac Pro is designed for pros who need the ultimate in CPU performance. When this happens, I need to do a restart to get it working again. Occasionally, the screen stays dark when the MacPro wakes up from sleep mode. This could be a problem if you need any of the pre-login functions.Ģ. As noted in other posts, the start-up screen is not visible until the login screen appears. It’s been 17 months since Apple introduced the original Mac Pro, which shipped with two dual-core processors (an 8-core model with two quad-core CPUs was introduced in April 2007), and the new Mac Pro is a big step forward: every configuration uses quad-core Intel Xeon CPUs for even more power. In 3 months of use, I have noticed only two problems:ġ. Mac Pro (Early 2008) LEM Staff - 2008.01.08. I just checked Amazon, and the video card now costs about $160 after rebate. For example, games like Diablo 3 and World of Tanks now very are playable on this 6-year-old machine. It is VERY quiet, making scarsely more noise than the other fans in the MacPro, even when used for graphics-intensive games. Overall, I have been very pleased with the performance. I installed it in place of the stock video card 3 months ago.
#Best video card for early 2008 mac pro for mac#
It requires one power cable purchased separately (Amazon: PCIe PCI-e Power Cable for Mac G5 nVidia ATI Video Card - High Quality). I bought the first GTX 660 card listed above (Amazon: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/Displayport SLI Ready Graphics Card GV-N660OC-2GD) and installed it. My questions are:Īny issues likely with power supply or back-compatibility of the PCI-e 3.0 card with the PCI-e 2.0 slots? In reading the reviews on Amazon, I like #1 better because it seems to have a better, and most importantly for me, QUIETER, cooling fan system.
#2: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SUPERCLOCKED 2048MB GDDR5 DVI HDMI DP Graphics Card 02G-P4-2662-KR #1: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/Displayport SLI Ready Graphics Card GV-N660OC-2GD I have narrowed my options down to two versions of the GeForce GTX 660 available on Amazon: I'm interested in faster graphics performance overall and in online games. I know that the non-Mac cards won't show the boot screen, and that does not worry me as I will keep the old card for emergencies. I would like to spend some money, make some hardware upgrades (SSD, RAM) and I would not, being an Early 2008 to discover the next year that the overall hardware of the machine is too outdated.
#Best video card for early 2008 mac pro upgrade#
I wonder until I can upgrade the OS of my Mac Pro 3.1. In reading the posts here and elsewhere, it looks like a PC card like one of the two below would work and would meet my price requirements ($200 or less). Upgrade limits for OSX Mac Pro 3.1 Early 2008. I'm looking to upgrade the stock video card in my Early 2008 Mac Pro (2x2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon, 14 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB graphics, running OS X 10.9.3).
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