jaybez Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Hi, hoping for a bit of advice. I have a 2009 Mac Pro and want to upgrade the graphics card from the stock GT120. My budget is around the £100 mark. Please can someone direct me towards some guides/tutorials in order to take a standard Windows compabtible graphics card and update it to work under OSX? I'm currently on 10.7.x, I occasionally run Windows 7 32 bit under bootcamp so would be nice for it to be compatible with that as well. I do have access to a native Windows 7 desktop PC. Any other helpful advice would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: just be clear, i want to game under OSX (and occasionally Windows) EDIT2: Well bugger me, things have moved on since I first got this machine. Seems Apple made a consumer freindly move! http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1440150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkoyote Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 You can run GeForce 6xx Series like this one Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 2xDVI-D/HDMI/D-SUB Graphics Card GV-N650OC-2GI If you upgrade to Mountain Lion. Also you need this cable Mac Pro PCIe PCI Express 6 Pin Video Card Power Cable Read this: Smoke on the Water: GTX 660ti in a Mac Pro and DaVinci Resolve 9 Nvidia finally releases driver 304.00.00f20 for 10.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybez Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 Thanks for the info. Think I'm going to go for an older GTX470, I appreciate the 650 runs cooler and draws less power but the 470 seems to have more grunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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