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It is not often that i get a product that leaves me speachless. This is one of those products.
I have a mac pro 3.1 and with the new mac pro 2013 announced I had thought to rob my savings and renew my love of all things Mac by getting the new model. Trouble is the old model is pretty damn good. So rather than spend upwards of £5000 on the new model, instead I invested in this Sapphire mac edition card.
Very importantly it has dual efi swithes to enable mac use or windows use. It comes default for Mac. Inserting the card was the usual simple matter given the beautiful mac pro design, removable side panel and loads of spece. I have read the sometimes cards placed in slot one can cause problems so I opted for slot 2. The card is wide taking up two slots of the 4 so be warned. However, this is the same with all cards of this calibre. There were two 6 pin power cables supplied, so no worries with connections. Also, handily there was a couple of graphics adapters so no matter what screen you connect to, you will have an appropriate adabpter or connection.
I fitted the card and, having mountain lion installed, just switched on and it worked. Boot scren appeared - hurrah, this disappears when you try fitting PC cards.
First impression - absolute silence. Not even a slight hum.
So being technical I ran novabench scores and to my delight got a score for my aging mac pro of 1347, and given that a mac pro 5.1 recently tested gave a score of 1335, this was a great result. I then turned on x-plane version 10, turned all the settings to maximum and the simulation was as smooth as silk - not judder and a very impressive 35 fps. This test had my previous card (xfx hd6870 2gb) running at max capacity. Apart from a slight noise from the fan, and I mean slight, there was no strain on the system.
This card has transformed my Mac experience. I cannot recommend it enough. Sorry Apple, but you make machines too darn good to replace. With the money I have saved, i bought two external raid systems from icy box, 8 x 3 gb hdds for storage, 20 gb ram, a 27 inch digital monitor and still have a pocket full of money saved from not buying a new mac pro. Do the math!!!
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