4870 Cards Flashed Working

Friday, September 11, 2009 - 7 Posts by 3 People

I have a Mac Pro 1.1 and I've been successfully running a flashed XFX ATi 4870 card for a month . Is there anything I can do to get the 4870 working again? it. And the card was officially flashed, not just using injectors, right? In that case, wow, no idea

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 8 Posts by 7 People

I am looking at putting one of these cards in my first gen Mac Pro and was wondering if anyone has in the machine for it to boot, which means at least 2 cards must be in the machine. I have a flashed XFX changed lately the flashed cards have some functional limitations. You do not get: HD Audio VGA analogue

Monday, October 26, 2009 - 8 Posts by 3 People

ATI Radeon 4870 HD from apple for $350 ... or i can spend half as much for a better PC card flashing. From what i've read, flashing a PC ATI Radeon 4870 is one of the safest ones to go with. ... : It's based on a XFX rom so don't bitch if your card is different and doesn't work It's the same rom used

Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 19 Posts by 14 People

Remove the second card and boot from your now working HD 4870. Please note: RBE 1.11 works ... Introduction This article applies only to users who flashed their HD 4870 (GDDR5) with a 64 KB card and boot from your now working HD 4870. Please note: RBE 1.11 works fine for these 128K...

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 19 Posts by 14 People

Seen a lot of 4870 vs GT 120, but is anyone currently running both an ATI 4870 and a Nvidia GT 120 confused and crashes Unfortunately, Vista doesn't work well if the cards are from different vendors.I don't know about you guys but, I have both flashed 4870 and OEM GT 120 in my Mac Pro and running

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 24 Posts by 13 People

For selling working flashed PC cards, has put a 4870 up for sale. Unfortunately, it's pricey... of Radeon 4870 cards that can be flashed to work in Mac Pros. I'll update the list as more news... user Bruinmacs, who is known for selling working flashed PC cards, has put a 4870 up for sale...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 18 Posts by 11 People

flashing tools simply do not work or may "brick" your card. I've only tested ATI Flash for your 4870. 4) Flash the card with: atiflash -f -p X <yourfile> Substitute X for your adapter... working powersave in linux for me, although my card is not supported any more) is not working

Thursday, October 01, 2009 - 9 Posts by 5 People

I use a flashed a HD 4870 in my 2008 Mac Pro which has always worked fine with OS X 10.5 and my good old VGA monitor. Since I installed SL, this combination does not work as well anymore. I get Golden Sample 1GBi was under the impression VGA never worked with flashed cards.Agreed! I never got

Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 5 Posts by 4 People

One know which card I need in order to have dual dual-link DVI?? Or is it something that's not quiet possible cause the firmware is taken from or based on Apple's original 4870?? flashed, 1 dual link and 1 single link . Those are the cards that I ordered. If this works I'll have...

Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 15 Posts by 7 People

Through again (last time was on my 4850) so I ran 3DMark06 and got the exact same results with the 4870 as I did with the 4850, actually the 4870 score was 1 pt less, the cpu score was lower but I figured and it's working better now, I'm thinking about putting the ASUS TOP 4870 bios on it, that's the popular one...