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Flashing a Saphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 to Mac

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npaisnel

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Jun 23, 2013
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OK, yes I have ..and am currently searching other places.
Found a thread here comparing 4870 to a 5770..but no info on flashing hat I have yet found.

I have a 2008 Mac pro 8 Core Xeon 3.0Ghz, with a pair of ATI 2600's and want to upgrade..but at moment..not worked for 6 moths due broken arm..so no cash.

But I do have these two cards sitting here:
GT8800...blue PCB not compatible :(
HD 4870..pic attached..is this compatible

have seen one thread about flashing these same named but different looking cards..but doing it on the Mac.

Since I the Mac is a home machine..and the GF uses it I don't want to risk doing anything wrong on the mac..and screwing it up..the current cards anyway..so

Anyone got any advice / links for doing this flash on a PC?

i did read about flashing GT8800's on PC via dos, I have plenty of spare pc's around


Thanks guys
 

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Take a wander over to Netkas.org, they helped me flash a Sapphire Vapor-x HD 4870 exactly like the one you pictured.
 
Will have a look and see if I can find a forum there again. I had been looking there before and thought it was just a single page blog, with an archive down the RHS
 
Yes, thanks. Spotted it now. Almost deliberately designed to be hard to find,
 
Friends, tell me, where you can take a poppy firmware for the Radeon HD 4870 512Mb.
Thanks for the help.
 
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