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Macnetix

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hi everyone,

i recently bought a cMP 1.1
standard config.

i bought an xfx hd 5770 and flashed it with a Mac Rom.

in lion the hd 5770 works really sluggish and slow.

with el capitan i can't even boot, it keeps hanging on the apple logo and sometime's restart's, when i boot in safe mode then i can boot up to el capitan.

someone can point me in the right direction?

Mac pro 1.1 flashed to 2.1
2 x dual core 2,66 ghz
ati 2600x original GPU
xfx hd 5770 works weird
16GB Ram

the card works perfectly in windows 10 so i doubt there is an issue with the xfx hd 5770.
 
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Macnetix

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i bought an xfx hd 5770 and flashed it with a Mac Rom.
XFX GPUs are known to be problematic on Macs. Some work OK, but many do not (they often deviate from AMD's reference design). If you have another Mac-compatible GPU to test with, I'd try that first.
 
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Macnetix

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XFX GPUs are known to be problematic on Macs. Some work OK, but many do not (they often deviate from AMD's reference design). If you have another Mac-compatible GPU to test with, I'd try that first.
with the original ati 2600X everything works perfectly so it's the XFX brand that's causing the issue?

i mostly am using it in bootcamp windows 10 so not a big issue.

but one last question.

is is possible to put any GPU in the mac pro only using it in bootcamp? no mac os .
 
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