have a mac pro 2009
It has had some hardware upgrades:
32GB RAM and 3 SSDs (including the PCIe OS drive and 2 500GBs)
I have upgraded it to macOs mojave
It's current graphics card is its orginal:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB
What are my upgrade options/what graphics card upgrades can I get that will work with my mac pro and not break the bank?
Something that will very capably deal with high quality photo editing and video playback without screen tearing
Many thanks ?
I wonder how you installed Mojave without a Metal card.
The GT120 is , for today's standards, a very bad performing GPU and doesnt support Metal, which is a requierement for Mojave.
I suppose you installed Dosdude's patcher for Mojave.
Take a look at the link post#2 , to get an idea about possible GPUs.
I recommend to install Mojave "by the book" , but if your MP 4,1 is still unflashed (not flashed to a MP5,1) you'll have to upgrade the BootROM first to install Mojave natively .
Here's a link about how to install Mojave with all kinds of questions covered in the first post:
Please fully read this first post, you will probably find that you have one or more problems described into the various notes below. Mojave will only install if you have upgraded your BootROM to the current release and your Mac Pro have a Metal capable GPU*. If you are trying to install Mojave...
forums.macrumors.com
- what is involved in 'flashing' a graphics card?
- upon installing a new graphics card will I have to reinstall the OS/mojave?
- For flashing a PC GPU, you need Windows or Linux and the correct ROM for the GPU
There are loads of tutorials about how to do that
Note that there are some you can do yourself, or you have to send the GPU to a specialist to get it flashed and there are GPUs that cant be flashed at all...
- supposing you did a patched install, it's recommended to reinstall Mojave (as said before), regardless the GPU you want to install (as long as it's a Metal supported one).
To identify your BootROM version , go to : about this Mac> system information
