ive been digging and i think i may have what i need but wanted to check. im planning to buy a x800pro vivo on ebay and here is why. does this sound like it will work? anything i should know?
well ive done a couple days of research here. as i remembered it seems the pro vivo is the only version that does not have laser cut package disabling pipelines. now i have found a mac retail rom for a 109 board. if what ive found is correct the only difference between 102 and 109 revision numbers is WHO assembeled the board. having said that... it does not appear the mac x800 is a vivo card so i just need to hope nothing funky is changed.
it also seems that the only board one might be able to buy to turn into a mac card is either an XT or PRO as the XL uses different die size/pipelines/clocks and the SE has the same die but half the pipelines.
in theory i suppose someone could software disable the 4 pipelines in an XT firmware and maybe drop clocks a bit and make it work in a mac? im not sure, im more of a hardware guy. i can reball a gpu core on but as for hex editing the firmware... might take me a while.
so far ive only found one firmware file for the X800 as well. if anyone has a link to more than just the eliete mac that would be helpful. thanks.
well ive done a couple days of research here. as i remembered it seems the pro vivo is the only version that does not have laser cut package disabling pipelines. now i have found a mac retail rom for a 109 board. if what ive found is correct the only difference between 102 and 109 revision numbers is WHO assembeled the board. having said that... it does not appear the mac x800 is a vivo card so i just need to hope nothing funky is changed.
it also seems that the only board one might be able to buy to turn into a mac card is either an XT or PRO as the XL uses different die size/pipelines/clocks and the SE has the same die but half the pipelines.
in theory i suppose someone could software disable the 4 pipelines in an XT firmware and maybe drop clocks a bit and make it work in a mac? im not sure, im more of a hardware guy. i can reball a gpu core on but as for hex editing the firmware... might take me a while.
so far ive only found one firmware file for the X800 as well. if anyone has a link to more than just the eliete mac that would be helpful. thanks.