Is the ATI Radeon HD 4870 512mb Graphics card good

I'm thinking about getting a new mac pro and i've been looking a this graphic card and i've also been reading comments about this card and just wondering is this card good at all.
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I don't want to sound like a jerk but don't want people to wast their money because
You said
"If you have a 2006-07 mac pro, and want the most power you can get, crossfire two flashed pc 4870s."
That is wrong because a 2006-2007 mac pro only has ONE PCI.1.1 X16 slot you can only make it so you have two X8 slots or one X16 & one X8 To get anything from a CrossFire or SLI setup using any PCI X16 card you need two card slots that are X16.
I do agree & know if you have a 2006-2007 mac pro, then yes the apple 4870 is most likely the best you can get, besides going a flashing route. (I don't like to flash & the 4870 WORKS IN THE 2007 Mac Pro)
I have a 2,1. Mac Pro 8 Core 2007 & just got the New 2009 8 Core with 2.93 GHz Duel CPUs & I got the new GTX 285 came in the mail before the Mac Pro I got the 4870 from the 2009 to work in the 2007. But I have not tried the GTX 285 in the 2007 as the drivers have to be loaded from the disk that comes with it first & I did not take the time to do that & had the reformat the 2009 after trying to put the GTX 285 in the 2009 I found myself removing the 4870 I had just put in the 2007 then back in the 2009 then reinstall OS X 10.5.7 after that loading the driver disk from the GTX 285 first in the 2009 before placing the card the new Mac.
So I will when I have less work try the GTX 285 in the 2007 Mac Pro & let you know what happens.
I hope I was of Help
Thomas

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Get what you need for OS X, then get a PC card just for Windows. The GT120 might do normal things in OS X and grab whatever you want.... there is 75W and two aux power connectors of 75W each. GTX 275 Nvidia or something perhaps.
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We started to catch up, but missed the mark as far as driver support.
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Intel hopes to have Larabee out next year. Which goes in the other direction, use the cpu for handling tranditional gpu functions.
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The information on the AMD/ATI site actually says the 4870 has lower power requirements than the 3870.
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Hi, using Aperture 3 Trial (I'm waiting the deliver of full one from AppleStore) with few Canon RAW images I've experienced very often crash of the application and two kernel panic (sad), especially using brush tool like skin smoothing:
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Before report to Apple I would like to find most precisely the reason for the crashes :/
In those days I'm going to be crazy...
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- NVidia 8800 - no kernel panic
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The hatter:
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only issue here is that EVE for mac has a graphics bug because of driver issues... I dont know if this applies to the ATI iMacs, but it sure affects my Nvidia iMac. And this is a bug that have been present since EVE was released for mac, and Apple are aware of the problem, but has yet to fix it. So if I ever play EVE for more than background playing or in station use, I always restart into bootcamp, to play EVE there...
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Cam the ATI RADEON HD 4870 run in the 06 Mac Pro?

Yes it's an pc XFX 4890 (regular stock clocked model; not XXX version). I have it working in osx via injectors. I've been trying to flash it recently, as a rom has become available, however things aren't going very well... It seems possible that my later version xfx 4890 is not very compatible with the rom. Seems like people with earlier versions, had better success.
If I can't get it to flash correctly, might just change to a more compatible brand.
This thread can help answer all your questions:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=713428
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=751062
Word to the wise though, if you're not comfortable fiddling around with stuff inside your comp, it might not be a good idea. It can cause a lot of headaches~

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I have just bought a refurb MacPro 8 core (blimey) but want to put the ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 card in it sooner or later, but when I google it there seem to be so many different versions of this. e.g. a 'sonic version' etc, and so on, and they all look different in the pictures so Im really confused as to which one to get.
Can someone please advise me which is the right one and even suggest where to buy?
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You mean Apple are the only suppliers of the one that works with OSX?
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Mini display port reminds me too much of ACD. Nice idea, but quick back-pedal. MDP makes sense for docking a MacBookPro to that one display, but other than that - the jury's still out. Noticed they haven't introduced a 30" MDP? Or ANY new displays for that matter... WHY IS APPLE GIVING THE DISPLAY MARKET TO DELL??? Love Apple but "been there done that" with their efforts at proprietary connections. Firewire is the only one that succeeded because it IS truly lightyears beyond USB (any version). And it didn't hurt that Sony agreed. Just installed a flashed PC 4870 from Applemecanix on eBay and reveling at the increased number of jitter-free movie windows I can have open compared to Mac Edition 3870 (great card BTW). The flashed PC version has 2 DVI ports (only 1 is dual link) and 1 GB of memory compared to half that on the "official" upgrade. And you can make an offer on eBay and get it MUCH cheaper than the "upgrade" version. My Applemecanix was an EFX card by the way. You can find instructions on the internet for flashing any number of PC 4870's but I calculated it was worth paying someone else $100 bucks to do it, with the right of return. If you are hard-pressed for cash and have a boot-camp windows installation you might be better off flashing it yourself. You'll have to buy a flashable PC version (retailers have gotten smart, they're charging more for these) and get the Mac power cords direct from ATI/AMD.
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