I am wondering which card is the best performance for price. They are all relatively similar in performance from what I can tell, with between 2-4GB VRAM and clock speeds 900-1100 MHz. These are all sub 200 dollar cards, with the first 3 being sub 100 in a lot of cases. However, since 2016 the Maxwell GPUs have become less expensive and caught my attention. The 780 is reasonably powerful in the other one, and in fact I question if I am even able to get all the performance from it since I'm running it in x16 PCIe 1.0.
Mac pro 1.1 cpu upgrade series#
I run Windows and El Capitan, so to maintain MacOS support I won't be able to use a Pascal GPU or above (No 1000 or 2000 series NVidia). Even though I don't need two powerful Macs, because I already have the first Mac Pro and a couple gaming rigs, I just can't help but waste money upgrading this one. Recently I acquired another 1,1 for FREE, this one only has 4GB RAM and the base 2.0GHz Xeons. I since have purchased a GTX 780 Windforce and installed it, which provided it the ability to run most games reasonably. It came with 16GB RAM, the awful 7300GT, and the mid range 2.66 GHz x5150 CPUs.
I acquired my first one in early 2016 for 130 dollars. Hello everyone! I am the owner of two Mac Pro 1,1 Computers and they are absolute beasts! It blows my mind that they have the performance they do from 2006.