New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello everyone, I need help on this one, so try your best. I recently picked up myself a nice deal on a new video card. for $60, I got myself an ATI Radeon 9550 AGP 8x with 256MB of DDR2 Video RAM. I am pretty much fed up with even my 64MB Nvidia Geforce 4 MX/MX440 ADC card from my dual 1.0Ghz

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread Kris Tilford
You're going to have to flash the BIOS of the card (PC terminology) to a Mac ROM (Mac terminology) so that the card has Mac firmware instead of PC firmware. This is required of all PPC Mac video cards. On Intel hackintosh this isn't necessary, but you'd need to have OS X kexts that support

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread Nestamicky
On 24/06/10 6:19 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: The main thing that causes problems when flashing firmware on video cards is that the new firmware may specify a different clock speed than the original. You can read the speed of the VRAM on the VRAM chips on the card, and then if the clock speed of the

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread pdimage
On 24/6/10 08:46, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I need help on this one, so try your best. I recently picked up myself a nice deal on a new video card. for $60, I got myself an ATI Radeon 9550 AGP 8x with 256MB of DDR2 Video RAM. I am pretty much fed up with even

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread dc
On Jun 24, 3:46 am, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I need help on this one, so try your best. I recently picked up myself a nice deal on a new video card. for $60, I got myself an ATI Radeon 9550 AGP 8x with 256MB of DDR2 Video RAM. Sorry but that card is not a