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    MP 1,1-5,1 Auxiliary power inside Mac Pro 4,1

    I have an old Mac Pro 4,1 workhorse. It has the ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCIe video card, which occupies the lower two of the Mac Pro's four PCI slots. It tends to overheat in the summer and fail, so I'd like to install a Fox 2 exhaust / extractor fan above it. Looks like the intake of the fan will...
    • amccallum1
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    • 4.1 backplane exhaust fan fox 2 logic board power radeon 4870
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  2. fhturner

    Radeon 4870 in MP2,1 going haywire

    I have a few Mac Pros for various video/server/test uses, the "tail end Charlie" being an 8-core 2007 machine. I've played around w/ getting El Capitan on it (successfully). While I've used a Radeon 5770 w/ it in the past, I'm currently using my "least desirable" ElCap-friendly GPU laying...
    • fhturner
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    • el capitan mac pro 2007 radeon 4870
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac Pro
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