![]() ![]() Here is a list of video cards that will probably work in your Mac Pro. So, make sure that you have power connections to support whatever video card you buy. One of them had a plastic sleeve, but the other didn't. ![]() Luckily, with a little snooping, I found two six-pin outlets in the upper left corner of the motherboard. The HD6870 requires two six-pin power connectors, and since you can't easily access the PSU, they're hard to find. On the hardware side of things, I ran into an issue with finding a 6-pin connector. This same utility exists in OS X, but it's called "Startup Disk". This utility allows you to boot back into OS X, since you can't use the EFI boot selection screen. I made a Boot Camp partition, installed Windows, installed the video card drivers from the AMD website, and I also installed the "Boot Camp utility" (included with the Mac Pro Windows drivers). Once booted into OS X, everything worked just fine. You can apparently flash a video card, but I didn't bother. So while you can boot into OS X/Windows/Linux and use them just fine, you won't see any boot logo, and you won't be able to see the "boot selection" screen. In fact, none of the PC video cards will work with the Mac's custom EFI. Since Apple prices their video cards absurdly high, I took the plunge on a ATi/XFX HD4870, and later a AMD/Sapphire HD6870. Howdy! I own a 2006 Mac Pro and have replaced the video card twice.
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