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I just bought a Mac Pro 1,1 from my coworkers and I'm looking to upgrade video card as the one inside is very noisy.

What are my options? Basically I'm not looking to spend a lot of money, in fact i'd rather to spend as little as possible and get low end or mid range card, I'm not really playing games all that much so pretty much anything will do, I'd prefer 2xx series though. Current Mac Pro sells w/ GT120, Apple sells upgrade kit for $149 (which is okay, I just not sure if I'll be able to use this card on such an old Mac Pro)

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Super User is not a shopping site, so the budgetary/pricing parts of your question are not really on topic. however i think the technical part of this question make it worth keeping. – quack quixote Apr 5 '10 at 23:00
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There aren't a lot of options for the first Mac Pro.

There's the ATI X1900XT, NVIDIA 7300GT and the newer ATI Radeon 4870. For what it's worth the Radeon 4870 is near whisper quiet in a newer Mac Pro.

The newer NVIDIA cards do not work with the original Mac Pro. The original Mac Pro (MacPro 1,1) requires a 32-bit EFI firmware on the card. Source

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Instead of replacing the card, it might be possible to replace the fan. I silenced a noisy X800 by getting a passive cooler made by Zalman. I don't know what GPU is in your computer, but if it's a stock ATI or Nvidia you should be able to find a cooler upgrade kit.

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