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Enhancing an early 2008 Mac Pro: The GPU Upgrade Despite the fact that the “cheese grater” Mac Pro has always been touted as an expandable device, one of my biggest frustrations with it has been the anemic selection of available video card upgrades. Unsurprisingly, these “Mac Pro only” cards also come at a hefty price premium over their PC video card counterparts. My early 2008 Mac Pro came with the stock ATI Radeon 2600 video card, sporting a paltry 256MB of VRAM. Though the ATI Radeon 2600 has served me surprisingly well over the past few years, as of late, it was really beginning to show its age. Nowhere is this more evident than when running Photoshop CC, which requires a minimum of 512MB of VRAM to leverage the extra processing power of the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU).

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ATI Driver Updates Scanner - 5.9: Download and update ATI official drivers for your laptop automatically. The ATI Driver Updates Scanner application was designed to help you scan and update your outdated system drivers to release the full power of your laptop. This software suite updates the AMD Catalyst Display Driver and the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center. This unified driver has been updated, and is designed to provide enhanced performance and reliability. Powered by the Radeon™ 7500 GPU and 32MB DDR memory for advanced 3D graphics, the Radeon™ 7500 delivers immersive, realistic 32-bit color graphics in both Mac® OS X and Mac® OS 9 with exceptional performance.

The past few weeks I have been researching GPU options for my Mac Pro. Eventually I was brought back to the world of flashed PC video cards. The act of taking a PC based video card and converting it into a Mac version is a popular sub-culture among certain Mac Pro users. It’s popular for two reasons:. It’s cheaper than buying a Mac specific video card. There are more card options to choose from.

Of course, there are also potential drawbacks:. You may not see the gray Apple logo boot screen if you are directly connecting two DVI displays. ATI’s “Crossfire” technology should work on Windows Boot Camp partitions, but the Mac won’t take advantage of it. It’s not an “official” Mac card I was ready to gamble.

In my mind, the benefits outweighed the drawbacks, with one caveat: difficulty. About a year ago, I tried flashing a PC Radeon card (, to be precise) as part of a DIY challenge, but failed. What I really wanted this time around was a ready-made solution – a pre-Flashed PC video card that would plug and play as a Mac card without any voodoo on my part. As of this writing, a 1GB ATI 5770 Radeon flashed PC video card for the Mac Pro costs between $120 – $160 on eBay, which is substantially cheaper than the official ATI 5770 “Mac Pro” branded model, which retails for $249. After about three weeks of “window shopping”, I scored an ATI Radeon 5770 XFX 1GB video card for $121, with free shipping.

A week later, the card arrived. Included in the box was the card, a color booklet on how to install the card, a DVI - VGA adapter, and a power cable to connect the card to the Mac Pro’s motherboard. Installation After disconnecting all the cables from the Mac Pro, I installed the new video card into Slot 2 on the Mac Pro, keeping the existing Radeon 2600 card in Slot 4.

(PCI-e cards that require additional power from the motherboard need to go into Slot 1 or Slot 2.) Installing the Radeon 5770 was straightforward: First plug it in, then connect the Molex power cable from the motherboard to the card. The Test After connecting all the cables back to the Mac Pro, it was time to see if my $121 investment worked. Unsurprisingly, it did.

I was able to see the boot screen on my Mac, thanks to the fact that one of my displays (the Yiynova MSP19U) has VGA out. I used a VGA to DVI cable to connect the Yiynova to the Radeon 5770 card. The other DVI out from the 5770 connects to my HP 24″ display.

With both video cards in the Mac Pro, I was able to bring an old 19″ display back to life by connecting it up to the Radeon 2600 card – giving me a three display setup to work with. Conclusion In total, I now have five displays connected among two computers. With the Radeon 5770, Photoshop CC’s advanced graphic processing capabilities (including ) are now at my disposal. Maya runs much smoother. Plus, I have an additional dedicated display to utilize.

For me, the $121 gamble was worth it.Krishna Krishna January 26, 2014,. LWWZ December 1, 2014 at 2:37 pm Krishna, I’m in the same boat with my 2008 MacPro “Cheese Grater”.

I’ve loved this machine for many years and before finding your site had upgraded to SSDs, 32GB of RAM and a USB3 card. After the Yosemite upgrade, the video performance was abysmal! I enabled the “Reduce Transparency” in the Accessibility options which helped some but started looking for GPU upgrades as well. After digging for a couple of hours I’ve come to realize that you currently have the ONLY single slot Radeon HD5770 card I’ve ever seen!:) Every other card out there is dual slot. In addition to the one I picked up off eBay for $109 w/free shipping. I was planning to use the blank on slot 1 but I’ll get buy. I’ll let you know how it goes, but I expect to be able to keep this baby useful for several more years with these upgrades as long as Apple doesn’t “obsolete” me too soon with UI “enhancements”!

Love your site and keep it up! Michael December 8, 2014 at 5:48 pm Saw this post and decided to get the same card (I think it is) on Amazon for the Mac Pro (Early 2008 3.1) that I just got. I am switching everything over to Apple as I use Adobe alot and really hate win and Google atm.

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Anyway, I can get the card in, but have NO idea as to where to plug the power cord that came with the card. Any help would be great.

I want to turn this on. February 28, 2015 at 12:31 am Thank you for posting this Krishna! You literally have the exact same setup I’m trying to (eventually) get to. I just recently acquired a Mac Pro (2008 model) with 8-core processor (2 x quad), and I’m upgrading the RAM to 16 GB as well as an SSD in one of the PCIe slots for the OS X and Adobe CC apps for fast boot up and performance times. The graphics card is one thing I’m planning to upgrade next, but trying to find the best value.

Some PC ones I’ve heard work, just without the apple boot screen (no big deal to me) within the Geforce 600 and 700 GT and GTX sereis. I’ve seen 2GB ones within the $120-$150 range and I’m probably going to go that route as long as its compatible. But you also have a Yiynova MSPU19 and a Dell 24″ for better color yes? Those are the exact same two displays I have been looking at purchasing! How do you like them?

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Do you find the Yiynova works well for drawing on, and the larger dell for correct color and higher resolution?

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Gentoo Forums:: View topic - ATI IXP sound problems SOLVED: in :: Author Message stateq2 Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 242 Location: us Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject: ATI IXP sound problems SOLVED I recently bought a compaq presario r3128rs laptop. Judging from dmesg, the sound is 'ati ixp 150'.

Code: bash-2.05b# lspci grep audio 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller I compiled in the following driver in the kernel (2.6.8 gentoo-dev-sources) Code: ATI IXP 150/200/250/300 but sound doesn't work, and I'm getting the following error in dmesg Code: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17 14: UTC). ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.5B - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ATI IXP AC97 controller: probe of 0000:00:14.5 failed with error -13 ALSA device list: No soundcards found. Besides this, I still have to get my ati card configured correctly.but I'll just take this one step at a time thanks edit: solved.scroll down unite Last edited by stateq2 on Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:10 pm; edited 3 times in total stateq2 Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 242 Location: us Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:46 am Post subject: ok.I enabled every alsa pci audio driver, and I'm still getting the same error in dmesg could this be a bug in the kernel or something? Again, it's ATI IXP AC97 audio, on a compaq presario 3128rs laptop.ANY help or info is appreciated thanks unite gbu n00b Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Between UCI and UCLA Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:14 am Post subject: Bump! Same problem, Compaq Presario R3230US laptop. Stateq2 Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 242 Location: us Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: ok.I got the sound to work.

Apparently, something is wrong w/ the driver in the gentoo development sources kernel, because I installed the mm-sources kernel using the same config, and the sound worked. Code: emerge mm-sources I'm still having one problem though: even though the sound works, It won't play through my headphones. In other words, when I plug in my headphones, the sound still plays out of my laptop speakers.any ideas? I solve one problem, and I'm faced w/ another unite stateq2 Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 242 Location: us Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject: headphone problems solved. unite Display posts from previous: All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum.