southwos Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I am interested in upgrading my Mac Pro's video card. I have the following: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro2,1 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 3 GHz Number Of Processors: 2 Total Number Of Cores: 8 L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB Memory: 20 GB Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B06 SMC Version (system): 1.15f3 Serial Number (system): 1571800KUPZ Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0019E3F8CEF2 2 PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 2 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (Can drive 4 30" Apple Cinema Displays) Bluetooth Firewire 400/800 4 500GB HDs (2TB total) Snow Leopard 10.6.4 2 external eSATA ports 23" and 30" Apple Cinema Display I have tried to use a Nvidia GT 120 (didn't work) I have tried to burn a XFX 3870 (didn't work) I know some have had success with using a PC based card, I could not get it to work. I'm almost ready to buy the FX, but but the price is just crazy. Any help would be appreciated. It really bothers me that I have almost $10k in a 4 year old machine and I can't find a video card that actually works with no major modifications. Why does apple not offer an upgrade for older (4 years old) machine that is considered their top of the line machine. I was going to sell the Mac Pro and get a new iMac i7 machine, but quickly found out that I could only get about $800 for my $10k machine. This really makes me wish I would have never bought the Mac Pro in the first place. It seems as though the Mac Pro is something only companies buy and not a consumer machine. I have had just about every mac product and have been able to sell them at a reasonable price when I was ready to upgrade. Now I'm stuck with a really expensive machine that I can't get enough out of it to buy the lowest end mac for an even trade. Sorry for the rant, but I will never buy a top of the line mac product and may just by used from now on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southwos Posted September 23, 2010 Author Share Posted September 23, 2010 Just wanted to post an update so anyone wondering would know that the new ATI 5770 does work in my MP. I bought one and installed it and am very happy with the upgrade. Finally someone stepped up and helped out us older MP owners. Thanks ATI!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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