Radeon hd 5870 mac pro 2008

Any ideas? This has got to be something obvious I'm overlooking. Thanks for helping me not pull my hair out.

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I have a octo so I may crack it open in a bit and see if I can sort it out. Thanks for the reply. This is driving me nuts, especially the lack of anyone else seeming to have the same problem. I took a pic to help explain further what I'm seeing Basically the gray thing on the left side of the interior case, above the black "handle" on the ATI card. I don't see what purpose this piece serves, and it's blocking the card from fitting inside.

On the later machines, it slides the entire PCI Bracket the grey slot caddy forward and lets it lock into place so as to secure cards. The Radeon is not advertised for use in the systems, and so will be a tight fit. Do not attempt to remove the handle, you'll regret it. The will fit, but it's a tight squeeze. You'll have to rock it back and forth to get it to fit correctly, and will take some patience; it's seriously not reccomended, but if you're foolish enough to go ahead with it, there's a reasonable picture here of someone who's done it.

While you're at it, remove all the PCI Card Covers and your drives - the more space you have to work, the better. Insert the card, port side first, so it's sitting at an angle, with the "handle" resting on the grey plastic cover. Now, raise the port side, so that the metal endplate is parallel to the rear edge of the case, and the "handle" is parallel to the bottom edge of the grey plastic PCI runner. Wiggle the card back and forth in this motion until the card seats in fully. Unless your machine has been taken apart, this will work, and the card will seat, albeit snuggly.

Everything We Know AirPower: This is despite the fact that Apple only officially lists the and Mac Pros as supported hardware for the upgrade card. This gives existing Mac Pro owners another video card upgrade option from Apple. We had previously reported when the video cards had become available for purchase from Apple's online store. Barefeats has posted some preliminary results on the forums: Full results should appear on Barefeats shortly. Related Roundup: Mac Pro. Buyer's Guide: Mac Pro Don't Buy.

Top Rated Comments View all. Who buys a Macpro to play video games: I'm hoping when he gets bored of the 8-core he'll sell it to me for a song but I'm not counting on it. Radeon One Card, Three Macs Here goes, gang.

Seven games at x and x in the , , and Mac Pro -- all three with the Radeon HD Mac Pro GPUs: Radeon HD and versus Geforce and Radeon http: Special thanks to "Pegasusrjf" for his input. Only 2 of the 3 displays light up. Maybe one reason that all three lit up this time was the fact that the 30" Cinema is effectively an "active adapter" like the other two. I'm continuing to experiment with every display combo on all models of Mac Pro with the and installed, so more to come on this.

Guides AirPods If you're new to AirPods, considering buying a pair, or just want to pick up some new tips. They perform the same as each other and the main reason anyone would want to upgrade is for DX11 which the HD has but of course on a Mac Direct X 11 doesn't even come in to play for obvious reasons. You are probably thinking why does this older card match and sometimes beat the newer one?

The is the new generations mid-range and thus it is designed to get the previous mid-range buyers to upgrade not to get the previous high-end buyers to upgrade like yourself instead they want you to get the HD or HD but Apple only sells the HD for you high-end folks: Cool, thanks for chart Vice!

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I never really got into the whole GPU thing and mostly rely on advice of others when it comes to this. A friend claimed to no end that the would "beat my any day". Turns out it's actually slightly better at the moment. Considering I don't run Windows 7 native DirectX11 definitely isn't of much interest to me.

Just a small off-topic question: Do you have any idea how the inch iMac's performs compared to the or , is it a lot worse? Looking at how thin the iMac is it can't be that good right? I have no facts to back that statement up it's just something Apple tends to do quite often. It is considered a low-end to just touching mid-range card.

The is squarely mid-range and the HD is a high-end card. The Mac Pro is a scam. It's a powerful computer with pretty nice build quality, granted, but they charge way, way too much for it. When I was looking for a powerhouse that complemented my laptop, the 27" iMac made way more sense. Sure, it's not as powerful, but it was very competitively priced unlike the Mac Pro.

It became one after the Quad-Core inch iMac was released. When it comes to graphics the iMacs still stuck beyond no believe though. I have no idea how you're supposed to get any serious performance out of an under clocked low-end GPU in combination with a high-res inch screen. The GPU has traditionally always been the soft spot of the iMac and the thing that starts showing its age first, with no real way of upgrading it.

It's also shocking to see how fast the iMacs loose their value these days compared to the Mac Pro.

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They've definitely done this to the late , early and mid versions. Right now it's just enough for gaming and more than enough for graphics work. With recommended detail levels in Portal, I get about FPS at x, and World of Warcraft runs like butter at x with most everything turned way up and some AA to boot then again, WoW isn't exactly graphics intensive and should really run better than it does; the Windows version performs much better. I think you are right, though.

I'm sure they have to underclock the a slight bit. Otherwise, it would probably fry a hole in the back of this aluminum enclosure. It already gets pretty hot when playing games and the iMac has as few fans as possible as it uses more passive heat dissipation. GPUs always tend to show their age quickly, especially if you demand the best out of them. Even some of the top-of-the-line GPUs can't handle the best graphics on the market right now.

It's been a rub for PC gaming for a while. It is just a matter of time before someone downloads the firmware off the card and provides a way for someone to get a generic card and write the firmware to it for half the price. This is one thing I hate about Apple, such a closed set of hardware they support Why can't we just buy any darn GPU we want without some custom apple firmware on it and just use it in the PCI Express slot that is supose to be universal to start with: