Unless you have any other inquiries regarding the 5870, I'll go back to my 680 in 10 mins or so...
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By all means..thanks for wasting your time with the 5870
I'm jealous of your working 680....
Hi Kunia,
When you flashed your card, did you get a message from NVFLASH about the boards being different and having to press Y twice to be able to do the firmware flash?
Cheers,
Moley
When you flashed your card, did you get a message from NVFLASH about the boards being different and having to press Y twice to be able to do the firmware flash?
Cheers,
Moley
Yeah...
but from what I've read I was flashing a reference card, model 2680
which should work
That's entirely possible, even if it's not very likely and doesn't explain the 5870's idling behaviour. However, it's come back from Apple with a clean bill of health. That would reassure me enough to try again, especially as everyone else is reporting success.
Maybe there was some tarnish on the PCIe slot connector that just needed "scrubbing off" by reseating a card repeatedly. I've certainly seen that problem with RAM slots more than once in the past.
Maybe there was some tarnish on the PCIe slot connector that just needed "scrubbing off" by reseating a card repeatedly. I've certainly seen that problem with RAM slots more than once in the past.
with just one hard drive and clean os x 10.8.3, the 5870 (at the apple store) was idling at about 17 watts - 11w from the PCI slot, and 3 watts per each 6-pin connector. They ran the ASD on it, and all components passed. We specifically looked at all the power/voltage on the slots...again, all good.