#Sound card for mac pro 2007 drivers#
#Sound card for mac pro 2007 upgrade#
#Sound card for mac pro 2007 Pc#

Alot of bands record audio and mix it on the Mac. All the latest Star War movies sound was recorded and mixed on a Mac (I believe the recording part was done on a Powerbook). Alot of Audio experts use the Mac for professional Audio, even the movies. There are lots of soundcards for the Mac, the problem is they are mostly PCI (or PCI-X), so they work great in the PowerMac G5, but not the Mac Pro.

(I don't play WOW) I've read alot of performance issues with WOW, but I thought they were limited to graphics. Unless it's different than UT2004 which separates the sound to another core. The sound should be going to another core than the game. Now saying that I can't understand why you would have sound problems like the ones you are describing on a Mac Pro, unless WOW is single-threaded, even the sound, but I don't think that is true.

#Sound card for mac pro 2007 Pc#

This is different from a PC where a soundcard offloads the sound from the CPU. A soundcard is not going to help the problem you describe. This is the reason the Mac is great for sound applications. All sound goes through the CPU on a Mac, EVEN if you add a soundcard. Sound Blaster is a family of sound cards designed by Singaporean technology company Creative Technology Sound Blaster sound cards were the de facto standard. I forgot to tell you one thing about sound on a Mac. Hold the keys until your computer restarts and you hear the startup sound a. a soundcard is not going to help with that. You dont need to reset the SMC on a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, or Mac.

#Sound card for mac pro 2007 drivers#

They made a soundcard for the Mac back in the MacOS 9 days, but never upgraded the drivers for MacOS X. Higher end computer speakers typically have the optical out.Īlso, Creative in general does not support the Mac. The usual reason to add a soundcard to the Mac is not to improve the sound - the Mac has great sound - but to add various port options for sound in/out, such as the 3-color coded mini stereo jacks common for low and mid end computer speaker systems. There are however USB and firewire soundcards, like the M-Audio Sonica Theatre (which seems to be still sold but discontinued) or the Griffin Firewave. I haven't heard of a PCI-e sound card, yet, there may be one, but I haven't seen it yet. Another option is the use of a PCIe SSD card in one of the slots which can typicially support either 1 or 2 2.5' SATA SSD drives, or more recent ones that support M.2 SATA or even PCIe SSD modules. One is to use a readily available drive tray/adapter to convert an off the shelf SATA SSD to 3.5' drive bay.

#Sound card for mac pro 2007 upgrade#

While you cannot replace the sound card in the Mac Pro, since the soundcard isn't a sound card but a set of chips and circuitry on the motherboard, you can add a souncard to the Mac Pro. The Aluminum Mac Pro Towers offer two solid-state drive upgrade options. Not too many Mac games support surround sound. Just pop a DVD into the DVD drive and hook up a good set of speakers like the Z-5500's to the optical out and you'll have 5.1 surround sound. The Mac Pro does have 5.1 surround sound.