redesterdragon Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Hello I have a HP dc7900 CMT running Mavericks. It has three 1Tb drives, 8Gb ram and the stock HP dc7900 CMT motherboard, the on board graphics card is the GMA 4500 which I have working in 1024 x 780 resolution(the only resolution option). I Would like to get a new Graphics card at least 1gb I know of two that are compatible with the hardware but not sure if these are compatible with the mac OS. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150674&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Desktop+Graphics+Cards-_-N82E16814150674&gclid=CKW81O2dsroCFUkV7AodSj4AUw http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102994&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Desktop+Graphics+Cards-_-N82E16814102994&gclid=CPrGxJKesroCFU9o7AodI0cAfg Or if anyone has any better options that would work with the mac os than the two above please let me know. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donw35 Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Card that I have that are known working card GT210 GT240 GT430 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redesterdragon Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 thank you very much i will check these out! would this card be acceptable? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133432&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Desktop+Graphics+Cards-_-N82E16814133432&gclid=CM7E0ve0sroCFc9i7AodqkAAbg And Do i Have to do anything special to get it working or is it plug N play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 that should work as plug and play but a hd 6570 costs just $50 and is better... http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-100323-2L/dp/B0086ZV2L2/ref=dp_ob_title_ce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redesterdragon Posted October 26, 2013 Author Share Posted October 26, 2013 Dcai777 thank you for the suggestion. Even tho the other card is 2 gig the hd 6570 is better as a 1 gig card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 you're welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redesterdragon Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 I ended up getting this one.... A good friend is sending it to me! ZOTAC ZT-60209-10L GeForce GT 640 2GB 64-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Cardhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814500309 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 good choice, its a little better than mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redesterdragon Posted October 29, 2013 Author Share Posted October 29, 2013 Would that card work out of the box or do i need to do something special? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 should be oob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redesterdragon Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 Thanks, im anticipating its arrival. Its kinda a funny story why I started the conversion to hackontosh. I got into a game called galaxy on fire I came across on steam but it was a partial version for windows. My wife was really sweet and offered me to use her mac mini I bought the game and played for about an hour and she started wiggin out like most women do. So I said screw this and started the conversion. Moral of story woman will do anything they can to find a reason to nag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 LOL... this is a common + cheap card... http://www.mlosx86.com/tutorials/building-your-mac-pro.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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