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1. Genuine Oem Apple Radeon Hd 5770 1gb Graphics Video Card 1gb Ddr5
2. Genuine Oem Apple Radeon Hd 5770 1gb Graphics Video Cards

I know there are entire threads about NVIDIA graphic cards (PC), but I wanted to hear from MacPro1,1 or 2,1 (2006-2008) owners who recently patched their boot.efi with Tiamo's solution and are running 10.9.2 and use an upgraded Graphics Card. Unfortunately my box still has the stock NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 9 MB and lack of OS support makes the flickering unbearable (particularly with Mail.app and Safari.app) Could some kind soul post which (cheap) card to get, preferably because they have it working in their rig already? This is not for gaming or graphics intensive stuff, just Mavericks Desktop and your occasional full screen video. Thanks Edit: This is the I believe Edit: Edit: List of working cards in MacPro1,1. (flashed).

Genuine Oem Apple Radeon Hd 5770 1gb Graphics Video Card 1gb Ddr5

Ati Radeon Hd 5770 Graphics Upgrade Kit For Mac Pro 2008 Genuine Apple ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB Graphics Card for the Mac Pro (MC742ZM/A). 2560x1600 on three displays, power cable included! ATI Radeon HD 4870 ATI Radeon HD 5870, offered as an upgrade kit The Radeon HD 5870 card requires Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later and the use of both auxiliary power connections.

flashed. UPDATE: I got a NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2048 MB (unflashed) and it works fine UPDATE: it worked in Mavericks (tiamo), and it works in Yosemite (pike). I know there are entire threads about NVIDIA graphic cards (PC), but I wanted to hear from MacPro1,1 or 2,1 (2006-2008) owners who recently patched their boot.efi with Tiamo's solution and are running 10.9.2 and use an upgraded Graphics Card. Unfortunately my box still has the stock NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 9 MB and lack of OS support makes the flickering unbearable (particularly with Mail.app and Safari.app) Could some kind soul post which (cheap) card to get, preferably because they have it working in their rig already? This is not for gaming or graphics intensive stuff, just Mavericks Desktop and your occasional full screen video. Thanks Edit: This is the I believe.

Click to expand.I don't think you get any boot screen from those cards, even when flashed. I've not been following things closely since I've initiated that thread at netkas but at the time no one had managed to get dvi boot screen for the 5000 series. Flashing was just to make the card work at all on OS X (unflashed cards have various problems with itunes and games).

I don't think you can get a boot screen from the 6000 series either. In fact, I think it only works for the 7950/7970 cards flashed with the sapphire firmware. Click to expand.I do not have a genuine Apple 5870, more a Sapphire Vapor OC flashed with an efi. I did some experimentation. I run a pair of Dell P2214H normally connected via a pair of DVI cables - no boot screens. (Unlike my box stock Apple 2600xt which does boot screens with a DVI cable) To get a bootscreen I need a DVI - VGA adapter in DVI port 1 connected via a VGA cable to by Dell P2214H - it appears to be critical as to which VGA cable I use too.

One cable produces boot screens, but I cannot set the correct resolution (1920x1080) whereas the other VGA cable senses the correct res, but no boot screens. The screen pic is however noticeably brighter/sharper/clearer when connected via a DVI cable, so it's back to the twin DVI setup and no boot screens for me. That said, I so rarely reboot that the boot screen issue is a non-issue that can be worked around easily with the Startup Disk control panel. Zbrush sign in.

So, thanks (sincerely!) 666sheep for reminding me that the 5870 does boot screens, but the compromises necessary for my setup to utilise them are greater than I'm prepared to make - that said, the Sapphire Vapor OC is one seriously quick bit of kit in MPs even after all this time - it blows my 3mb GTX 660 out of the water on pretty much every test I put them up against. Add another one Picked up a and it works just fine, make sure you have the PCIe power cable. All 2 GB of VRAM is recognized by CUDA at least. Going to let it chew on some CUDA for a while as well. I can already tell it's running CUDA stuff at least four times faster than the 8800 GT. Might go back to the store and get a reconditioned EVGA GTX 660 and see how that goes.

Will do Ungine Heaven and other tests later. Some quick observations: was using the second gen 8800 GT before this (the long slim shady, not the fatter 1st gen) and the screen still felt slow and steppy, especially over Apple Remote Desktop.

The newer 8800 card doesn't do EFI boot screen. The Gigabyte card is whisper quiet even at startup and it hasn't done much to increase any temps as far as I can see. It's also much smoother than the 8800 was both live and over ARD. The new card ships with port covers for all ports, and even the PCIe slot has a cover.

Genuine Oem Apple Radeon Hd 5770 1gb Graphics Video Cards

Very nice for the price ($129), although it's not like I'm going to carry it around or store it a lot.