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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Graphics Card in 'old' Mac Pro

Please, can someone take a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Graphics card from a 'new' mac pro, or from stock, put it in an 'old' Mac Pro v1.1 (any before 2008) and report here exactly what happens ?

Thanks. Please only post if you know or have pretty solid info.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Jan 10, 2008 2:00 PM

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macguru9999 Author

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Jan 15, 2008 10:19 PM in response to The hatter

Its just a driver issue, we need someone like barefeats to test it with the correct driver installed

which will probably come from a 2008 mac pro, or the 10.5.2 upgrade

Jan 15, 2008 11:53 PM in response to macguru9999

Pardon my noobishness, but lets say HD2600XT did work and had proper drivers for the 1G Mac Pro. Is HD2600XT better than X1900?

The hatter

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Jan 16, 2008 6:57 AM in response to Russian Passion

Go to Tom's Hardware, click on "VGA" and choose your test.
The X1900 is still better but the 2600 is better than the 7300 was.

Jan 17, 2008 6:23 AM in response to macguru9999

also in another thread Resno said

"The stock ATI card is HDCP. I have tested it with Blu-Ray drive on Bootcamp"

Can someone confirm this?

Jan 17, 2008 4:39 PM in response to macguru9999

barefeats have tested the HD 2600XT and it's cool, the card works correctly, the performance are better than a 7300gt but slower than a 1900xt... I go to upgrade my "old" macpro!!!!

macguru9999 Author

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Jan 18, 2008 12:14 AM in response to lukalafaget

i would still like to hear if any special driver files are needed or if they are already in 10.4.11

Jan 18, 2008 7:39 AM in response to lloyd708

Yes it works (I have one, now preparing to return) but it is SLOW compared to the old NVIDIA 7300. It seems there will be no support for the 'old' Mac Pro's

lloyd708

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Jan 20, 2008 2:48 PM in response to lloyd708

I am going mad after all - it does say Leopard! What a plonker on that one!!

But it still doesn't clear up the bit about sluggish general performance when not running graphics apps.

The hatter

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Jan 22, 2008 9:20 AM in response to Mike Boreham

Take a look at Pacifist - after you have a backup of course. It may be able to extract and install drivers, or not.

Jan 23, 2008 6:08 PM in response to F Van Der Geest1

Hi, which slot did you install the card in?

Jan 24, 2008 2:54 AM in response to Waymen

I have a Mac Pro 2.66. The 2600 XT does not work when installed in slot #1 (16x), but does work when installed in slot 2. Is anyone else having this problem?

macguru9999 Author

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Jan 24, 2008 3:46 AM in response to Mark Shewmaker

no, mine worked first time in slot 1, but needed 10.5.1 drivers to work at full speed.

Jan 24, 2008 6:40 AM in response to Mark Shewmaker

I have no problem withe 1st slot, my HD2600 is intalled in this slot and work perfectly.

I have no artifacts...

Waymen

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Jan 24, 2008 8:04 PM in response to Mark Shewmaker

My 2600XT is in the first slot (video/double-wide) and I've had no problems under Mac OS X 10.5.1. It's also the only video card in the system, I've removed my old NVIDIA 7300GT.

Feb 14, 2008 4:40 AM in response to Mike Boreham

Can somebody(rob_ART?) confirm that 2600XT supports 10/12/16-bit rendering in Color?

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