Jeff Walther wrote:
> At 17:04 -0400 09/02/2002, Tom & Lisa P wrote:
> >>At 10:00 -0400 09/02/2002, Tom & Lisa P wrote:
> >>
> >>>Just curious, but do any of you Radeon 7000 owners see a flashrom on
> >>>your video card ? It should be a small (~1x1 cm) 32 pin square IC.
> >>
> >>Or if someone would just scan the front of the card that would
> >>probably help. May as well ask for the whole enchilada, Mad Dog.
> >>:-)
> >>
> >>Jeff Walther
> >
> >True. I am wondering as if there is no flashROM, then these cards
> >should be more eaasily cross-compatible ?
>
> I have the idea in the back of my mind that they may have used a
> serial EEPROM instead of a parallel Flash/EEPROM on these cards. I
> don't know where I got that idea, but it's kicking around in my brain
> for some reason. If they did, the Flash won't be a 32 pin PLCC.
> It'll have many fewer pins.
>
> Jeff Walther
>
So I notice that there's a 64MB version of the PCI Radeon 7000. I'm
wondering if it can be reflashed to work on a Mac, perhaps if given a new
ROM chip? The extra memory does make a difference for games with lots of
textures. In fact, 3D stuff is where system memory speed starts to matter
much more than the 10 percent or so difference it can make in other
operations. SO 64MB of RAM on a graphics card could help your framerates if
that's what you're into. Just curious how possible this is..
Bolton
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