SolDios Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Hey guys, so I'm running a mac pro at the moment and will be upgrading the graphics card, but the cpu is quite old and cant be upgraded much further at all. Because of this I don't want to be buying lets say a 660ti only for it to be as fast as a 570 when I could have just got a 570 and saved some money.My main two choices are these:Gainward 570: $150Asus gtx 660 ti: $220Now my problem is this, my cpu's (Dual cpu's) I am currently running are Xeon 5150 @2.66 ghz. Will a 660 ti be too fast for this? will I not see that much increase in performance from the 570?(Yes they both do actually work, 5xx series cards work on 10.7.5 and I can force 10.8.3 on to grab the nvidia drivers for the 6xx series. The only downside of this is I lose boot screens but it's not a big issue) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 ]10.8 won't run on a Mac Pro 1,1 as it is only capable of 32 bit. 10.8 is 64 bit kernel. Drivers will only be 64 bit I imagine as well. Unless someone has hacked their way around. In which case link me. Also btw when my Mac Pro 3,1 worked, I ran an asus hd 7950 and it worked a treat. Although I'm not sure how its price compares to the two you mentioned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolDios Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 ]10.8 won't run on a Mac Pro 1,1 as it is only capable of 32 bit. 10.8 is 64 bit kernel. Drivers will only be 64 bit I imagine as well. Unless someone has hacked their way around. In which case link me. Also btw when my Mac Pro 3,1 worked, I ran an asus hd 7950 and it worked a treat. Although I'm not sure how its price compares to the two you mentionedhttp://osxhackers.com/There's a lot of 404's but all the downloads work. Heaps of people have found other ways to force it on there, so it can be done.Yeah the 7950's are beast, I'm just wondering if its worth getting anything faster than a 570 because my cpu is a pretty big bottleneck. E.g. 200kph engine in a car that can only go as fast as 150 ect kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Well it all comes down to What your intentions with the machine are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolDios Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 Some gaming (will be dual booting with win 8 pro). Mostly garrys mod, league of legends and the odd game like bioshock infinite. (So not that hard). Would be nice to be able to get 40fps or so on "high" settings @ 2560x1440Will also be used for some minor game dev with unity and maya.That's why im thinking towards the 660/7950 but I dont want to get it and find it only uses like 50% of it cause the cpu is a bottleneck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 get the 7950 then when you upgrade to a newer windows desktop / newer mac pro you can keep the same card.You'll definitely see performance benefits over a cheaper card. However the motherboard/cpu on the mac pro 1,1 are at least 7 years old now, so I wouldn't be expecting anything amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolDios Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 That sounds actually like a pretty good plan, next machine will probably be a hackntosh or get a 4.1 perhaps end of next year so il buy the best reasonably priced card I can atm.Edit: what mac pro was yours mitch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 That sounds actually like a pretty good plan, next machine will probably be a hackntosh or get a 4.1 perhaps end of next year so il buy the best reasonably priced card I can atm.Edit: what mac pro was yours mitch?Also btw when my Mac Pro 3,1 worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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