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Hey guys,
My Mac Pro has 1 Radeon HD X1900 XT 512mb graphics card. As I was installing another hard drive one time, I noticed that there were several other PCI express slots. Would it be possible to buy an identical graphics card to the one I have now, and run in a Crossfire setup? I'm not even sure what to do, even if I did get another card. Would I just install it inside the tower, then plug everything back in and reboot?
Thanks for the help.
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Crossfire is not supported on Mac OS X, so no.
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The low-end Mac Pro is the most overpriced Mac since the IIvx
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Want a GPU upgrade? , get the ATI Radeon HD 5770 from Apple.
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Originally Posted by P 
Crossfire is not supported on Mac OS X, so no.
That doesn't seem right; if you go to the Apple.com store, and you customize a new Mac Pro, you have the options of having 1 ATI Radeon HD 5770 , 2 ATI Radeon HD 5770s, or 1 ATI Radeon HD 5870.
Is the 2 5570s option some sort of Apple version of Crossfire?
(Last edited by mapple; Aug 11, 2011 at 07:26 PM.
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No, it is two graphics cards driving two different displays.
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The low-end Mac Pro is the most overpriced Mac since the IIvx
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(Last edited by cgc; Aug 12, 2011 at 12:01 PM.
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The 5870 and 5770 are the same generation so if one works the other should.
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
The 5870 and 5770 are the same generation so if one works the other should.
I think it took an OS update to get the driver out for the 5870 to work. We're talking Apple here so nothing to be assumed 
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