{"id":84,"date":"2009-06-26T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T04:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:10:18","slug":"4870-why-arent-you-supported-on-macpro11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/84","title":{"rendered":"4870: why aren&#8217;t you supported on MacPro1,1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: This is no longer a mystery. If you want the punchline, please proceed directly to the comments at the end of this post.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"ATI HD 4870 video card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/search\/ATI-Radeon-HD-4870-Graphics-Upgrade-Kit-for-Mac-Pro-Early-2009-or-Early-2008?rdt=redirectionFromProductPage&amp;tab=accessories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATI HD 4870 video card<\/a> is a nice upgrade from the NVidia 8800 GT (my current card), however it&#8217;s not supported on the first generation Mac Pro (my current Mac Pro). Apple&#8217;s site states:<\/p>\n<h4>Compatibility:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Requires Mac Pro (Early 2009 with 1066MHz DDR3 memory) or Mac Pro (Early 2008 with 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory) with PCI Express 2.0 slot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The MacPro1,1 has 667 MHz DDR2 memory). I heard a rumor on the internets that this card DOES in fact work on a MacPro1,1 &#8211; with no issues or weirdness, so I had to try. My card arrived yesterday, and I&#8217;m here to report that indeed, it seems to work fine!<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve only tried it in WoW and Motion, but so far so good&#8230; Well except for the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/teamfusion\/2009\/05\/a-message-to-mac-users-with-atibased-system-about-apples-mac-os-x-1057.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATI driver in 10.5.7 breaks 3d acceleration in VM guests<\/a>&#8230; oh wells.<\/p>\n<p>The question remains: why is this card not supported on the first-gen Mac Pro?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" title=\"asp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/asp.png\" alt=\"asp\" width=\"600\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/asp.png 600w, https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/asp-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: This is no longer a mystery. If you want the punchline, please proceed directly to the comments at the end of this post. The ATI HD 4870 video card is a nice upgrade from the NVidia 8800 GT (my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/84\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}