Apple mac pro grafic card

[trappist-mage]

Hello all
i have a mac pro with 2x 3ghz and a apple 24" cinema discplay. yesterday my grafik card broke ( or so i think ) every time i turn on something ( games, video and other heavy grafic demending apps... in this case world of warcraft ) it starts to make grafic errors and aften like 1 min it makes the computer freeze. that sounds like a broken grafic card right???

my question is : now i would like a new grafics card and i found alot of them out there, but can i really pick anything for a mac computer? i have been looking at HIS Radeon HD 5870 but i am not sure it works with my stationairy mac computer.

any adwise would be great.

best regards
Martin

 

[pepperman]

Unfortunately, you have to get a mac approved card; they carry a big price premium, and they're not always the most up-to-date. Newegg sells a few different ones, and you should be able to buy through mac if you need to.

To my knowledge, their isn't a mac version of the 5870 yet (and I don't know if there will be). The fastest mac card I have seen (a least on newegg) is the GTX 285 but it has since been deactivated (again, since the last time I saw it, which was a while ago, so it could be in stock now).

 

[paperfox]

agree with pepperman, yo will need a mac approved or mac edition graphics card. anything else will not work and they are not the cheapest things in the world eather.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB999ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MTA4MzU2NTc
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TW387ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MTA4MzU2MDA

atleast they come with free shipping

 

[brockh]

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB999ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MTA4MzU2NTc

Bahahahahaha, $350.

By the way, you can just buy any old GPU and stick it in your computers PCI-e slot; it just won't be officially supported by Apple.

 

[pepperman]

^Which also means he won't have drivers

 

[brockh]

^Which also means he won't have drivers

From what I can tell there's no shortage of OS X drivers for any of the 4 series. I don't care to check any of the others.

 

[EXT64]

Is your computer still under warranty? Make them fix it if you can, no since in spending any more of your money fixing their defective product if you can avoid it.