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sphereboy
Dec 18, 2003, 11:41 PM
I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 AGP card sitting in my PC. I was just wondering if these video cards are able to be installed into a PowerMac G4?

Anyone have any suggestions.


sphereboy
Dec 19, 2003, 11:23 AM
[bump] trying to get the morning people to see this thread. thanks.
cocopelli
Dec 19, 2003, 03:33 PM
Ive wondered this also. In theory it should work, since they use a unified driver, but I do not know this to be fact. Obviously you would not get the ADC port, but is that the only thing missing?? I dont know. Anyone else know how the unified drivers work?
Versello
Dec 19, 2003, 03:58 PM
Wouldn't the firmware have to be flashed?
Sun Baked
Dec 19, 2003, 05:28 PM
Originally posted by Versello
Wouldn't the firmware have to be flashed? Bingo...

There's a flash matrix for Nvidia/ATI cards lurking somewhere around that IDs the results you can expect -- some are not very good (the cards that don't have enough EPROM for a universal flash).

Of course a card that work right now, can be rendered quite unstable with a Apple firmware/OS update and/or a driver update.