procedures for installing ati radeon 5870 in mac pro

Procedures For Ing Ati Radeon 5870 In Pro Mac Pros Service

I have been in Eyefinity HELL I could not locate one of the official Bizlink (Accell ) Display Port to DVI adapters.

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In any case, grabbed an XFX 5870 and tossed it in the 1st Gen.

Will have to keep an eye on future OS builds and see when Dev ID 6898 shows up.

Eyefinity with the 30 ACD and 24 Dell is rough, really need a 3rd monitor and thus either a DP monitor, or a display port active adapter.

I might get the Apple one to check my theory that it is same deal as the Bizlink one Windows folks use.

Will require a DP to MDP adapter, but I think they exist now) More news to come.

Can I take it that no workie includes trying all netkas stuff Also, is the card physically bigger than a 285, or around the same.

It would be great to have the 5870 for even Windows gaming only.

Rominator - thanks for this - I was just wondering what the story is on 5800 series.

Can I take it that no workie includes trying all netkas stuff.

What does the ambient temp in the expansion card chamber get to Does the case fan ever speed up when the card is under load.

Secondly m8 have you tried or thought about the connectors that come directly from the psu and get 2 six pin connectors directly from there to power a second card, like a teslacell card or a second graphics card.

Procedures For Ing Ati Radeon 5870 In Pro Mac Pros Service

According to the 2006 mac pros service manual, the psu is modular as it connects to multiple adapters near it, splitting the correct ones et voila 2 six pin connectors.

Before flaming keep, in mind that the 300w limit applies to both pci-e slots and the 2 six pin connectors on the board, on this case one of the cards is fed directly from the psu.

For the 2006 mac pros service manual, Ive seen one around here a couple of days, but you can always disassemble your mac pros psu and post pics.

Tempted to replace my non-booting GTX 275 with one of these for Windows use, although the loss of PhysX would be annoying.

This should give more than enough power to run Final Cut Studio 3.0 and obtain real-time rendering.

Procedures For Installing Ati Radeon 5870 In Mac Pro