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- HD 5570
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The GT620 will need at least Lion 10.7.5 to work but 10.8 and above is better. Use the older card for Snow Leopard. The old TMX guides of the time used Snow Leopard compatible GPU hardware:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/building-customac-customac-pro-2010.html
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/building-customac-three-updated-lga.html
The old TMX wiki page has some model numbers that worked in Snow Leopard:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php/Graphics_Card_Database
Almost all of these cards will be long out of production - so your going to need to find stuff that others have put aside or are selling due to upgrading.
This page is good for getting an idea on performance differences:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...e-right-now-hierarchy-chart-toms-hardware.htm
This page may help further with some of the compatible AMD 5*** & 6**** models:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...graphics-cards-framebuffer-personalities.html
I have an old AMD 5570 that I use for Snow Leopard in an old socket 775 build. The original small fan had become noisy so I fitted a passive cooler from another card to reduce noise.
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/building-customac-customac-pro-2010.html
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/building-customac-three-updated-lga.html
The old TMX wiki page has some model numbers that worked in Snow Leopard:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php/Graphics_Card_Database
Almost all of these cards will be long out of production - so your going to need to find stuff that others have put aside or are selling due to upgrading.
This page is good for getting an idea on performance differences:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...e-right-now-hierarchy-chart-toms-hardware.htm
This page may help further with some of the compatible AMD 5*** & 6**** models:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...graphics-cards-framebuffer-personalities.html
I have an old AMD 5570 that I use for Snow Leopard in an old socket 775 build. The original small fan had become noisy so I fitted a passive cooler from another card to reduce noise.
