From: Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:48:27 +1100
I can say that the retail ATI Radeon 7000 PC version is flashable, as that's what I used. I bought it at CompUSA for $45. It was only 32 megs DDR RAM, not 64.
Let me qualify my statement a little. The "cheaper" Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese, etc cards that use the ATI chipset but are not genuine ATI cards.
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Sure ATI headquarters are in Canada. You really think they are still making the Video cards there? The German company Sapphire is the OEM for the built by ATI 7000 cards. Guess where they are made....China. In fact my older ATI 128 Rage Pro is also made in China so it's been sometime since any of their products weren't made in China. You maybe thinking of the Power Color and Hercules brands of ATI cards. I have heard they are of lesser quality. I don't think either make a PCI 7000 with DDR ram.
In my experience those who can't flash the correct Sapphire cards and are blaming it on ROM chip sizes etc are generally mistaken. The process while simple is done in a PC and there are so many differences in PC machines it is anything but straight forward. What works for one person doesn't for another and the flashing software gives incorrect info leaving people to think they have a machine with a different size ROM chip. A manual check has as far as I know yet to find any ROM chip differences in the ATI and Sapphire cards (both made by Sapphire) Different cards use different Video RAM chips but that is true of both cards. The only real difference between the built by ATI and the Sapphire cards are color green for ATI and black for Sapphire and a different heat sink. Oh ya the Sapphire both 32 and 64 mb have VGA, DVI and TV out ports just like the Mac 7000 cards while the ATI cards are VGA only.
Sorry for any confusion.Asking ATI about flashing cards is a bit like asking Microsoft or Apple about using Pirated CD's of the OS . To put it politely very odd thing to do....
Needless to say I got a very cold response from ATI when I asked the same question - some crap about cards being "optimised" for each platform. Well doh! bios will definately optimise each!
Simon
just my 2 cents worth...Will S
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