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HD2600 works on the old Mac Pro's- using it now
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Installed it and it's working great.
Only thing... istat pro shows the northbridge at 131-133 (fahrenheit obviously). That's with smcFanControl disabled and leaving everything at the Apple defaults. Does that seem a tad high? No visual artifacts or anything.
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Glad to hear it works - mine should arrive either today or Monday. Can't say about the temps, though.
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Originally Posted by shinji 
Installed it and it's working great.
Only thing... istat pro shows the northbridge at 131-133 (fahrenheit obviously). That's with smcFanControl disabled and leaving everything at the Apple defaults. Does that seem a tad high? No visual artifacts or anything.
Mine is running at 166F at idle, so I suppose your temperatures are good.
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133f = 56c and isn't too hot. 50c ~ 60c is nothing to worry about in
the MacPro. I guess up around 80c or so and I would start thinking
about fitting something like this into the system:
At any rate I doubt you'll get it to go below 45c ~ 48c even with high fan
RPMs set in smcFanControl. I think it's rated at something like 105c but
check the intel spec sheet to know for sure.
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Last edited by Tesselator; Jan 18, 2008 at 05:35 AM.
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Originally Posted by shinji
Installed it and it's working great.
We already knew that. j/k 
Are you also planning on getting the 8800 GT upgrade? I'm anxious to read a report when somebody puts that into an older MP.
Only thing... istat pro shows the northbridge at 131-133 (fahrenheit obviously). That's with smcFanControl disabled and leaving everything at the Apple defaults. Does that seem a tad high? No visual artifacts or anything.
Absolutely normal. On a MP that is really nothing to worry about.
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Last edited by Simon; Jan 18, 2008 at 05:35 AM.
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Originally Posted by Simon
Are you also planning on getting the 8800 GT upgrade? I'm anxious to read a report when somebody put that into an older MP.
If by the time it gets here in March there's a firmware update that makes it compatible, yeah I will switch to the 8800 GT. Not holding my breath, though.
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My 2600XT is installed and running in my original Mac Pro (2.66GHz). It replaces the 7300GT.
Card seems to work just fine, but benchmarks slower according to XBench 1.3 and OpenMark. I'll reserve judgement on this for now, since BareFeats benchmarks the 2600XT in an old Mac Pro as faster than the 7300GT, and since I can see at least something on my system is running faster - some of the screen savers included with Leopard were really, really jerky on my 30" display with the 7300GT. They run fine on the 2600XT.
But it clearly works and is recognized correctly by the Apple System Profiler.
Edit: Screen shot...
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