Can I put the video card from my G5 MacPro in my newer (late2010) MacPro?

[Antifragile]

Can the video card from a Mac Pro G5 be used as a secondary video card in a Mac Pro from 2010

 

[flowrider]

In a word - No!

Look Here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2848

Lou

 

[Intell]

The last PowerMac's made had PCI-E video cards, but they still cannot be used because they have a PowerPC only OpenFirmware ROM.

 

[rabidz7]

You could flash it to EFI ROM.

 

[Tesselator]

You could flash it to EFI ROM.

I doubt it would be worth it. An 8800GT goes for what, $30 or something? And the DA from a PPC mac is bound to be several orders of magnitude slower than an 8800GT.

 

[666sheep]

You could flash it to EFI ROM.

No, they can't.

 

[rabidz7]

I doubt it would be worth it. An 8800GT goes for what, $30 or something? And the DA from a PPC mac is bound to be several orders of magnitude slower than an 8800GT.

Maybe not my overclocked to 450 core 7800GTX?

 

[Tesselator]

Maybe not my overclocked to 450 core 7800GTX?

Kewl, Didn't know that card was available for the PPC machines. Oh well, there's a lot I dunno.

Still, what do those sell for now, $20 or so right?

It's worth it to you to hunt and/or mod ROMs and flash a $20 card?