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Post by aquamac on Oct 29, 2006 20:22:52 GMT
Gotoh, one of the strangedogs moderators and also a member here has started a flashing WIKI at his website Lemamouth. If you want to know how to flash a particular card or have experience of flashing a card, share it with others at Lemamouth, perhaps we can build a real database that helps others! lemamouth.free.fr/aquamac  |
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Post by reddrag0n on Oct 29, 2006 22:31:23 GMT
Lol, now all we need is for 1 of those X1950's to work in the later G4's and we will be laughing...  |
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Post by kenji on Oct 30, 2006 7:40:19 GMT
I went there but the forum is in French  Is there any English? |
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Post by aquamac on Oct 30, 2006 16:31:51 GMT
The flashing Wiki will be English only, I got a bit carried away with the 6800 & did English & French, well sort of pidgeon french.
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Post by reddrag0n on Oct 31, 2006 22:15:01 GMT
Don't know if you guys know this, but we might be able to get the X1900 for the G4's after all.... ATI posts info on X1900 G5 Edition (PCI Express) - I'd mentioned this card was coming back in the August 7th news page (equiv. to the PC X1900 GT card) but was still waiting for an official release. Kiven today wrote there's now an ATI product page on the Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition. The Specs page has hardware details. (256MB GDDR3 Vram, 2 dual-link DVI-I ports + 9-pin S-video and composite video output, 10.4.7 or later required.) As of around noon eastern today the card wasn't yet listed at the ATI online store (the mac listing had 9800 pro, 9600 pro and X800 - all shown as not in stock) I've written an ATI contact to see if he can provide more info on availability/price. *info from of xlr8youmac* Looks like now we can get these for the older systems?  |
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Post by aquamac on Nov 1, 2006 4:34:45 GMT
That is excellent news, all this should help with the future of the X1950 cards also. Do you know what the difference between X1900 & X1950 cards is, I would think the X1950 is made on a smaller architecture to eliminate more thermal problems, I have not looked yet to see if they both have similar ram. If you find out more details, please let me know.
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Post by reddrag0n on Nov 1, 2006 16:34:47 GMT
Well, it seems our friends over at strangedogs have seen the same info i did. Here is the link to what they are saying about it. |
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Post by ritalin on Nov 1, 2006 18:33:22 GMT
Well according to Wikipedia the PC AGP X1950 Pro will use a RV570 80nm chip with 12(36) pixel & 8 vertex shader units. The ROM from the Mac edition card will be designed for a X1900 GT, this uses a R580 chip, other than that the specs are close .
I don't know much about flashing ATI cards. I think people have had some success using the ROM for the Mac R420 (X800 XT) on PC card such as the R481 (X850 XT).
The other issue is the availability of a suitable renderer in OSX. We know that OSX provides renderer's for the X1600 and X1900, I don't know if the X1900 renderer can be used with the X1950?
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