On May 12, 2010, at 8:32 PM, deadwinter wrote:
Here's another stupid question. This is unclear to me. I think the
answer is yes but I'd like to confirm. Does anyone know if you can
flash ATI cards if you ONLY have, say, a G4 or G3 desktop with PCI
slots, and no access to a PC?
Yes, it is possible to flash PCI cards in a PCI Mac without using a PC.
The best possible PCI card for a PCI Mac is the nVidia GeForce FX5200
or FX6200 that are the only PCI cards that can enable Core Graphics.
Another nice card is the 64MB Visiontek Xtasy Radeon 9100 that's
flashed with a modified Mac Radeon 8500 ROM to become a Mac Radeon
8500 PCI (a model never made or sold) which is faster then the real
Mac Radeon 9200 by quite a bit. Again, you'll only be able to enable
Quartz Extreme up to OS 10.4.11 because PCI Extreme doesn't work in
Leopard 10.5.
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