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hello, i've recently bought a evga gtx 980 ti founder edition (with titan cover), i've searched on our website and others', haven't found a bios for mac pro, anyone can provide one would be so sweet, thank you so much. my email: investaparis@gmail.com.

i want to sell my nvidia original 1080 ti founder edition, i've two of them, new in box never opened nor used, if interesting please message me.
 
There isn't one you can download, not officially or otherwise. The only option would be to send your card to macvidcards.com to have his customized firmware flashed onto your card.
 
hi thank for advice, but if i understand, your mean is there is only one mac pro version of bios for these cards, and all people from all over the world use this bios, and they all sent their cards to mvc? well i'd like to know how much will it cost to flash my card please?
 
It is on macvidcards.com under flashing service.

i've just reserched on internet, it seems their service has a problem, they send back the card without flashing, their rom is bad experience for user, and they dont reply the mail and questions, some said even they are going to dismiss, does anyone has already paid their flash service and can tell an experience with please?
thank you.
 
Every Nvidia card out there with bootscreens (except for GT 120s and GTX 680s) is running MVC's ROM. Some were flashed by him or his distributors, others were flashed by unscrupulous people who figured out how to dump his firmware off his real cards and flash it to other cards for $$. There are many reports of problems with some of those ebay cards, and no guarantee of support from the shady vendors who sell them there.

That said, MVC himself hasn't exactly been a model of stellar customer service recently. I think the majority of people who buy from him (or send their cards in for him to flash) have gotten what they paid for, but there are enough reports of poor response to issues to know it's not just a fluke. I honestly wish he would give really top-notch support, as that would be a clear advantage he could provide over the shady ebay sellers.

I will say that I sent in an EVGA 750 Ti I purchased myself for him to flash a couple years ago. The whole thing went fine and he flashed and shipped it back promptly. I only read one report of someone who said MVC returned his card unflashed and didn't respond to emails. But I assume MVC flashes cards every week so that was probably just a fluke.
 
Yes, I can confirm that MVC's customer service sucks. He is really hard to get a hold of and I've heard many horror stories about his customer service. That being said, your only real option is to purchase the flashing service from him. I don't recommend those ebay resellers. They are not doing anything illegal so if you really need a card you can buy from then. You won't get any support (not that he provides much to his paying customers...) from MVC if anything goes wrong. You also won't be able to get the new ROM update he has been hyping up if you do. So TLDR, buy a flashing service from MVC mostly because you have no other choice.
 
Not that I've seen. The people who ripped it don't want to give it away. They want to flash cards and make money.
 
And nobody try to rip the modded ROM and try to flash in other card of same model??

that's what i said: nobody can keep the secret forever, it's not kind of business which can last, before you cant make a patent for that, so better to make a community like macway or some others, construct something on metal, but not only software depending on others material, you can go on this way, but you wont go far.
 
that's what i said: nobody can keep the secret forever, it's not kind of business which can last, before you cant make a patent for that, so better to make a community like macway or some others, construct something on metal, but not only software depending on others material, you can go on this way, but you wont go far.

Well the "problem" for us enthusiasts is that so far everyone with the talent to dump a MVC ROM hasn't given it freely to the community. They show the same "greed" MVC does and try to sell it, even though they didn't even do the hard work--just stole it from someone else.

So, yeah. It's a crappy situation for people who already own an NVIDIA card, but you could probably sell the card you have and purchase a flashed card for not too much extra money.
 
Not that I've seen. The people who ripped it don't want to give it away. They want to flash cards and make money.

THIS MAY BE A CONSEIL FOR MVC, PLEASE READ AND TELL THEM. THX

it seems you think its unfair for mvc, but it's natural people do it, even you: if something is not forbidden, then you will try to make your own interest and profit too, we are in a real world, so one day mvc haven't made a patent for its productive work, people will not stop from flashing cards with it's work.

if mvc think it's a business they are running, then it's not a good business, because you will take your time and your effort even sometime your money to make dress others for free, even not willingly. even the fake seller on ebay is mvc's fault, because the more they keep the rom as secrete, the more people want to steal it cause it's not easy to get it. so there is a valour, the more mvc keep it's roms, the more valour on the market, but never will be mvc's benefit, because the fake seller sell always cheaper than mvc.

the only way to make this work as a real business, is built a community and share the rom freely as many as possible, and nobody will steal again, and there will be no more ebay fake seller, because it's free, and they will come back everyday to look for roms and give help to newer users, we human has another nature, that's when we got something free, it's easier to give it out free too, so i believe if mvc does so, they will have ten millions of users registered, and that's.... is money, a real money, you can sell or do anything as you want, instead of being disappeared today.
 
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Quite sure MVC doesn't really care about your opinion. You're free at any time to learn how to make a firmware (or acquire one of his cards, dump the ROM and rip him off same as the other ebayers).

I don't really care either, as I've really soured on using NVIDIA cards in the cMP over the last couple of years anyway. NVIDIA's web drivers have been buggy and crappy lately, and Apple seems to have allied with AMD going forward.
 
I agree with bookemdano. macOS Mojave is very AMD optimized and it will just keep heading in that direction so I don't think it makes a lot of sense to keep using Nvidia cards in the Mac. Apple recommends using a Polaris card in the cMP now, but you can use a Vega if you power it properly. No boot screens, but you don't really need one. Just keep a flashed card such as HD 7950 or GTX 680 handy for when you need a boot screen (e.g. when there are firmware updates).
 
Well the "problem" for us enthusiasts is that so far everyone with the talent to dump a MVC ROM hasn't given it freely to the community. They show the same "greed" MVC does and try to sell it, even though they didn't even do the hard work--just stole it from someone else.

So, yeah. It's a crappy situation for people who already own an NVIDIA card, but you could probably sell the card you have and purchase a flashed card for not too much extra money.
Ah hem, I accidentally did that (dumped and uploaded "his" ROM) and had fanboys attack and harass me for days. There is talent out there it's just they will be shut down very quickly.
[doublepost=1533850492][/doublepost]I wouldn't say "AMD optimatized" more than a pain in the ass for Nvidia users. It's a matter of installing a driver. 3d acceleration on Mac OS is slow in general.
I agree with bookemdano. macOS Mojave is very AMD optimized and it will just keep heading in that direction so I don't think it makes a lot of sense to keep using Nvidia cards in the Mac. Apple recommends using a Polaris card in the cMP now, but you can use a Vega if you power it properly. No boot screens, but you don't really need one. Just keep a flashed card such as HD 7950 or GTX 680 handy for when you need a boot screen (e.g. when there are firmware updates).
 
NVIDIA web drivers have been glitchy for me on 10.13.6 (black boxes appearing over text, etc.) Others have reported this as well.

As for MVC, I have no dog in this fight. I really couldn't care less if others dump his ROMs and release them to the world. Of course I would expect his defenders to raise a ruckus in that situation, but that's par for the course. If you're not breaking any laws then you're entitled to do whatever you want (although this site may not want you discussing it here--or maybe they do... I don't know the position of the site's owners on that).

I just find myself caring less and less about the NVIDIA situation as time goes on. It sucks that there aren't great GPU options for the cMP that give you everything--4K@60Hz bootscreens and high quality, built-in drivers. But at this stage of the game, even if I have to give up FileVault, I think I'd rather deal with no bootscreen to avoid the hassle of dealing with NVIDIA web drivers. Two years ago I wouldn't have said that, but the trajectory of the relationship between NVIDIA and Apple has only worsened since then, and there are less cMPs in active use every week.

I mean who's to say NVIDIA is going to keep pumping out web drivers anyway? Isn't there some non-zero chance that at some point they just say "OK we're done"? Maybe that day will come once Apple stops supporting the 5,1 on new versions of macOS, but seems there is always a chance they stop before that.
 
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My inquiry might be slightly off topic. If so, I apologize. I have a cMP 4,1 flashed to 5,1. I struggled to get the firmware update for High Sierra to run. All is well there now. I have a MCV flashed Nvidia GTX 980 ti in the machine. I am running the current Nvidia WebDriver. My problem comes with 3D rendering. Since there are not the same driver settings on the Mac as on the Windows version of the driver software, I have experienced inability for the card to deal with things like Ambient Occlusion in 3D settings. Has anyone found a work around or know if Nvidia has a macOS tool that will allow 3d settings to be forced? I find the Web Drivers Management Settings to be thin and anemic. Any help gratefully accepted.
 
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