Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1?

From	Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1?
Date	2015-02-23 14:57 -0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2015-02-23 16:34:42 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> On 2015.02.23 06:03 , glawrie wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Genuine Apple cards are quite rare now, and eyewateringly expensive when
>> you find them.  So I am expecting that the best option is some kind of
>> PC video card that has been (or can be) 'flashed' using Netkas.org bios
>> etc.  But I don't keep up to date with PC video cards, nor what among
>> those can be 'flashed' to work on a Mac.
> 
> Find California companies that may have stock or that can get it from 
> Apple.  California law requires 7 years of support.

It's easy to find original equipment graphics cards with antequated 
performance.  The problem is that the cost is ridiculous (hundreds of 
dollars) especially for a card that is worse than obsolete.

That era Mac Pro is still a very fast and useful machine, but 
significantly less so without a graphics card at all, and the original 
graphics card is perhaps the only obsolete piece of equipment in the 
machine.

To the OP, my advice is to read everything you can about netkas.org's 
supported cards.  I feel your pain, as the GPU died on my old 2008 Mac 
Pro as well and I ended up breaking down and ordering one at 
significant expense to replace it, only to have it go bad eventually 
too.  I replaced it with a then-new Mac Mini which had roughly the same 
Geekbench score, and since that time (2011) I have saved enough on 
power bills alone to pay for the next machine I will buy.

The only time I notice a performance penalty is while doing tasks that 
are both CPU bound and heavily threaded, like video or sound encoding.

With Apple's lackluster support of, and reluctance to admit problems 
with their various computers especially since the Intel switchover, I 
am very reluctant to drop much money on the Apple ecosystem in the 
future.  The fact that OS X is slowly going to shit doesn't help to pry 
my pocketbook open either.

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Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.co.uk> - 2015-02-23 11:03 +0000
  Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-02-23 14:03 +0000
    Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-23 15:19 +0000
  Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 10:02 -0500
  Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-23 11:34 -0500
    Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-23 14:57 -0800
      Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-24 07:59 -0500
        Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-02 22:27 -0800
          Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-03-03 23:45 -0700
            Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-05 08:56 +1300
              Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-03-04 14:09 -0700
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-04 16:55 -0500
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-04 22:47 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-04 18:09 -0500
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-04 23:33 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-04 23:40 -0500
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-05 18:12 +1300
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 12:58 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-05 18:53 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-03-05 13:25 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 14:47 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-05 04:02 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-04 23:14 -0500
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-04 23:51 -0500
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-04 23:55 -0500
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 13:01 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-05 18:58 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 21:21 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-05 04:01 +0000
                Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-03-05 13:24 +0000
  Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-02-24 02:25 +0100
    Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.co.uk> - 2015-02-24 02:14 +0000
      Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-02-24 12:15 +0100
        Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.co.uk> - 2015-02-24 16:46 +0000
      Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-24 12:46 +0000
        Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.co.uk> - 2015-02-24 16:49 +0000
  Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? tmo1138 <tmo1138@tmo1138.com> - 2015-02-25 05:46 +0000
    Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-02-25 13:48 +0100
      Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.eu> - 2015-02-25 14:17 +0000
    Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 07:53 -0500
      Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.eu> - 2015-02-25 14:20 +0000
        Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 12:51 -0500
          Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? tmo1138 <tmo1138@tmo1138.com> - 2015-02-27 03:16 +0000
        Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.eu> - 2015-02-26 14:52 +0000
      Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? tmo1138 <tmo1138@tmo1138.com> - 2015-02-27 03:14 +0000
    Re: Recommends for good graphics card for MacPro 5,1? glawrie <gavin.lawrie@2gc.eu> - 2015-02-25 14:16 +0000

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