Amd radeon r9 280x 3gb for apple mac pro 2008 to 2012 3,1 4,1 5,1 COMeap Dual Mini 6 Pin to 8 Pin PCI Express Video Card Power Adapter Cable for Mac Pro Tower/Power Mac G5 15-inch(38cm) by COMeap. If you have purchased your Mac with an upgraded GPU higher than the. Now that the card has been reseated go ahead and plug the Mac Pro back in, and wait. The most notable difference is boot screen support: with a non-flashed GPU,.

The default video card, GeForce 8800 GT, in my Mac Pro 3,1 Early 2008 wasn’t performing well for games, so I decided to replace it. After extensive research, I decided on the. This card, built on the ATI Radeon HD 6870 platform, has far superior performance to the Apple default GeForce card. It is most likely the quietest card due to the large heat sinks and two fans (instead of 1 like most video cards), and has two DVI, two mini DisplayPort, and an HDMI port. Customer comments confirmed it was quiet and ran cool. More reviews confirmed it ran on the Mac Pro 3,1 (Mac Pro early 2008 running 10.6.7).

Now that it is finally working, I can attest that it is a silent card, as quiet as the GeForce 8800 GT that it replaced. Below I explain what it takes to get the card working.

Installed MSI HD R6870 Twin Frozr II After the card had arrived, I realized the sites I had reviewed were from people booting Windows natively on their Mac Pros. I had no idea so many people are running Windows on the Mac Pro.

I spent the next several hours trying to find out how to get this card working. I read articles on how to flash it, various articles on downloading a variety of programs to change parts of Mac OS to get the card working. Finally, after extensive searching, I found the. This posting is a “how-to” guide and hopefully easier to find than the posting where I downloaded the. Note, these drivers aren’t required after Mac OS X Lion. The best price I found for the MSI R6870 was on, and you need to order the from Amazon along with it.

If you are running Yosemite, you can download and install the while you wait for the Amazon order to arrive. Is there a way to unlock a disk for install on mac. The GeForce 8800 has a power cable that runs from the motherboard to the video card. You will notice that there are two 6 pin connectors on the motherboard right next to each other (visible in the top left corner of the picture below). The new cable will plug into the empty connector to provide two power cables to the new card. Disconnect the power cable, unscrew the bar that holds the PCIe cards in place, and pull out the 8800 video card. Note that on the PCIe connector on the motherboard there is a plastic catch that you will need to pull up to remove the card. If you don’t, you will break this off.

Not the end of the word, but not ideal. Remove the blue plastic cover over the PCIe connector before installation.

Slide the new video card into the bottom slot. Connect the two power cords and replace the bar that holds the PCIe cards in place. Close up the Mac and turn on. When booting you don’t see the standard boot screen.

The screen stays black until the Mac is booted then you see the login screen. I started my career at a start-up, Sun Microsystems, and have been at start-ups ever since. Small companies are always short on people giving me the opportunity to travel extensively for both business and pleasure. Two foreign assignments in the UK led to 9+ years living abroad and accelerated the travel my family, and I was able to do. Although I have worked in Asia (including a year working for a Singapore HQ’d company), the Middle East and Africa, most of my foreign experience is in Europe, the CIS, and Russia. Thanks for the info!!!