Flash Pc Video Card Mac With A

Flash Pc Video Card Mac With A

Hi guys. Just wondering if its possible to use a graphics card from a Mac with a pc Specifically, the card Im talking about is from an early 2008 Mac Pro, a Radeon X2600.

A friend of mine who owns the Mac (dual quad-core cpus, the smarmy git) is looking to upgrade, and I thought that the card might be a good temporary solution until I can get a better card (its going to my brothers pc).

And while were on the subject, said friend of mine is looking to get a new graphics card.

Hes looking at the 4870 thats just become available at the Apple store, but its very expensive, especially compared to the pc versions.

He was wondering if its possible that pc cards will work with his Mac Pro I mean, Im not really familiar with Macs (and hes not really interested in the hardware) but theyre based on Intels S775 now, arent they They use PCI-Express too, dont they And if not, are there any other online stores that will sell the Mac versions cheaper than Apple Thanks guys.

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Im pretty sure theres something propreitary in the mac cards that means you cant interchange them.

Any ram will work, any HDD will work, but for some reason the video cards just seem to be proprietary.

Thanks for your response, Wunderbar, we were afraid it might be something like that.

In that case, do you or does anyone else here know of a cheaper store that sells the 4870 for the Mac.

Similar to a PCs BIOS, Open Firmware is stored in ROM and is the first stored program to be executed upon power-up.

Its a matter of the cards BIOS being set to speak to a Mac vs a PC.

I know some of the older cards (early Radeons, and even some of the newer NVIDIA cards) could be reflashed back-and-forth in order to work, but I havent been able to find anything on the newer PCIe based ones.

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Thanks guys. But does nobody know where we can buy Mac graphics cards cheaper than they sell them at the Apple store.

Correct me if Im mistaken, but isnt there also the same problem with CPUs.

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