ATI Radeon HD 6870 XFX Black Edition | In a Mac Pro

Hello,
Today I am going to be unboxing and showing you my new ATI Radeon HD 6870 XFX Black Edition. As you see in the title and this video, I am using this card on my 2008 8 Core Mac Pro. Wait.... what! (Some of you might say) that shouldn't even be possible. Well, in the past to use none-apple certified graphics cards in the Mac Pro on Mac OS X, you had to "flash" or "dump" the ROM on the card of your choice. A very timely and tedious project. But! With the introduction of Mac OS X Lion, Apple brought along some nifty video drives(: One of those being a straight-out-of-the-box compatibility with any ATI Radeon HD 6870 of you're choice! There might even be others, just, people haven't explored all of them yet. You'll see in this video the installation of this card and a first time boot up also. Pretty cool stuff that more and more graphics cards are getting full support from Apple. This is a hefty card for $220. In Windows, I can Crossfire these things and get one beast of a gaming machine! Something to keep in mind. Yes, I could of bought a flashed 5870 or Apple's 5870 and gotten a faster card. But, this card is fast enough for pretty much everything "I" do. I saved a lot of money buying this thing over the 5870 also! So win, win for me. Just to clarify, I did no modifying of the ROM to this card. It. Just. Worked. Right after plugging this card in and seeing Mac OS X Lion boot into the card for the first time I could already see how much faster Lions "Fade into Desktop" animation was. Everything just feels. FASTER! And I really like that. It really made the machine feel faster, it's snappier and over-all more pleasing on the eyes to see Apple's nice animation play out how they should be. Smooth and Pristine. Especially on this 30" Cinema Display. So, I hope you guys enjoyed my video! Look for a review and benchmark test coming soon! Also, keep and eye out for my Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh that I just recently completed!

Thanks for watching,
chargerfun34

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[abuabdillah333]

5870 is faster than 6870?? also how much did ur mac pro cost? thanks

[chargerfun34]

@abuabdillah333 It sure is, my Mac Pro cost $1400.

Thank you,

chargerfun34

[samm1551995]

@chargerfun34 just curious. you've got an 8 core mac pro and it costed 1400?

For the love of got how, lol. i'm saving for one for rendering uses and stuff.

thx

[chargerfun34]

@samm1551995 Sure did, 2008 machines aren't to expensive now.

Thank you,

chargerfun34

[toyuniverses]

It's easy to add the Mac EFI to a PC Radeon 6870 installed in a Mac Pro, so that it behaves like a regular Mac video card. Just download the OSX program "Zeus" from "groths.org" and click on the "firmware" tab. This EFI is based on the iMac EFI, which uses a Radeon HD 6xxx chipset.

[aussienerds]

@aussienerds I take that back, 6 years.

[aussienerds]

@chargerfun34 Regardless, we'll still be getting about 8 years out of the 12 core Mac Pros. So, there's not much to fear right now.

[aussienerds]

@daturnerman76 Lies! Lies and deceit! No, seriously - touché.

[daturnerman76]

@aussienerds It's now just OS X - Apple dropped the "Mac" portion of their operating systems.

[Jimmygixxer77]

Hi can you tell me what the power cables are please ?

Will the power cable supplied with the card work ? or do I need to order separately ?

I will be replacing the HD2600 XT in my Mac pro 3.1 with the HD 6870 black edition.

Thanks

[aussienerds]

NO! It's Mac OS 10! X is a roman numeral for 10! Get it right! Please, it's bugging me.

[chargerfun34]

@hyrobous Well no one is actually sure, it's just speculation that Apple "might" be thinking of cutting of the Mac Pro.

[hyrobous]

@MrOLhello

Apple is thinking about to stop producing mac pros...very bad

[ronindavid]

Just installed the XFX Radeon HD 6870 on my early 2008 Mac Pro (3.1) and works EXACTLY as the Youtube poster says. Mine isn't a "Black Edition" because I couldn't find one. However, the one I found on Newegg looks identical in every way to the one the video poster is installing. Just some quick thoughts: To use bootcamp with this card you need a free mac program QuickBoot. The card works fine in Windows 7 after you install the inclosed drivers. Card if fairly quiet for having 2 fans.