does a made for pc graphic card work?

[rezatayebi]

i live in iran so it`s not easy for me to buy graphic cards supported by apple. am i able to use a made for pc graphic card on my mac pro?!
has anyone tried that?!

[robbieduncan]

Do a search. This gets asked almost once a day. Many people have posted their experiences.

The basic short answer is: No, it won't work in OSX at all.

[Lord Blackadder]

Yes...sort of. Read this thead (http://strangedogs.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=experiments&action=display&thread=1158739989&page=1) at the Strangedogs video card flashing forum. Basically, you need -

A Radeon X1900-class card (It WON'T work with an X1950). It MUST have 512MB VRAM, not 256.

The X1900XT OEM EFI file (http://strangedogs.wikispaces.com/wikidownloads2) from strangedogs.

Read the thread to make yourself aware of the risks and pitfalls, but you can get one of these working pretty easily if you're careful.

Just out of curiosity, where do you shop for Apple products in Iran?

[rezatayebi]

Just out of curiosity, where do you shop for Apple products in Iran?[/QUOTE]

there`s a compony named "Jahan Pardazan" also known as persian apple! They sell and support apple products in iran.they have a very wide range of users. the only problem is the products are 10% to 20% more expensive.

[Lord Blackadder]

That's interesting....I didn't think Apple had any official specialists in Iran, so it must be difficult to find what you're looking for.

[CanadaRAM]

10 - 20% markup is actually quite reasonable for a local source. Lots of products have regional distributors that taks 50% and more.