Is this is a good card for my 2008 Mac Pro?

You can use the shortcuts, but you won't see anything on the screen. I think that is what was meant.

I don't remember where exactly, but a few posts on this site and/or random other ones said that you can't use startup keys. The sleep issue has been resolved, but I did a lot of things, so I don't know what fixed it. It's still possible that it's a hardware issue because I did get a boost cable for it (since it has an extra power input) instead of using the 4-pin power from the optical drives.

So after what I've seen on my computer, I could recommend the GTX 650 Ti Boost from EVGA as a good low-mid-end GPU for a Mac Pro. The benchmarks for it are also pretty good, not that I care too much because I mainly wanted to get rid of my really noisy 2600 that could not run Lion+ decently for some reason and get something modern.

Hi everybody,

My Mac has the following specs:

Nome modello: Mac Pro

Identificatore modello: MacPro1,1

Nome processore: Dual-Core Intel Xeon

Velocità processore: 2,66 GHz

Numero di processori: 2

Numero totale di nuclei: 4

Cache L2 (per processore): 4 MB

Memoria: 12 GB

Velocità bus: 1,33 GHz

Versione Boot ROM: MP11.005C.B08

Version SMC (sistema): 1.7f10

May I mount a

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680?

or what's the maximum that I can install on it?

Thanks in advance,
Rafano

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Unfortunately, the Mac Pro 1,1 is more limited in what you can put in it, by software and (if I remember correctly) hardware. For one, you can't run Mountain Lion, which contains drivers for a lot of GPUs. The GTX 650 would not work, so I doubt a 680 would.

Unless you want to only use it in Windows. Then... probably.

May I mount a

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680?

or what's the maximum that I can install on it?

The best bet for a Mac Pro 1,1 is the Apple-firmware 5770, about US$250. It runs in every model Mac Pro. Drivers are in 10.6.5 and all later versions. It has 512MB of VRAM and supports OpenCL.

Genuine Apple cards and "Mac Edition" cards WILL show the bootup and Option-Boot screens, which some users find more predictable and convenient.

Meh, my *takes a deep breath* EVGA NVIDIA GTX 650Ti Boost SC is much faster than that GPU and only cost me $170 after CA sales tax. But it doesn't display a boot screen. It's unfortunate that the Apple-branded GPUs are so expensive.

DPArt has corrected me, the Apple-firmware 5770 has 1GB of VRAM.