Then you can use most Nvidia and ATI cards these days right out of the box on your mac without the need to flash anything. Flashed ATI 5770 (possible for 5870) to work in Macs.
The ATI Radeon HD 5870, AMD's new premium pixel pumper, is truly a piece of work. It's not just the fastest graphics card ever, fully capable of grinding Nvidia's mighty Geforce GTX 285 into a powdery pulp. It's quite simply the most powerful computer chip we've seen of any kind, thanks to getting on for three teraflops of raw processing power. Oh, and it just so happens that it's the world's first graphics chip to provide support for Microsoft's new DirectX 11 API. • Also read: It therefore debuts a number of new technologies that threaten to revolutionise the way PC games both look and play. • Also read: That's right, the new Radeon HD 5870 is a biggie.
Somehow, however, it's not quite what we were expecting. More to the point, not all the surprises are for the good. To understand why, allow us to transport you to AMD's recent launch event at a suitably swanky London venue. For the first 20 minutes of the Radeon HD 5000 series presentation, AMD hammered home a convincing message.
It went something like this: After a decade or so of chasing ultra-high performance at all costs, things had gotten out of hand for the PC graphics industry Refinement GPUs were growing uncomfortably large. Power consumption, board sizes, pricing – everything seemed to be ballooning. Things reached a head with the launch of AMD's Radeon HD 2900 series in the summer of 2007. It was a bloated, steaming, overheating disaster of a GPU, huge in proportions and cost but low on performance. AMD's graphics subdivision, ATI, found itself sinking fast aboard the failboat that was the graphics chip codenamed R600. Well, that's not quite how AMD put it, but you get the idea. Something had to change.
Very bravely indeed, AMD decided to reboot its fundamental strategy for graphics. It would no longer take Nvidia head on in an increasingly futile contest to produce the biggest and baddest graphics card. Instead, it would build smaller and cheaper GPUs targeting a maximum retail price of around £200. For the really high end, AMD would slap two of these chips on a single card.
Thus the Radeon HD 3800 series was born. It was a big improvement on the 2900 and delivered decent value, but it wasn't the full manifestation of AMD's new strategy. That came with the Radeon HD 4800 series. ATI revival It was smaller, sleeker, more efficient and simply more elegant than Nvidia's colossal graphics chip. The net result was that the 4870 board delivered 90 per cent of the performance of the GTX for about 60 per cent the asking price. It was a winner, in other words.
Central, therefore, to AMD's new strategy is delivering great performance at a price mere mortals can afford – the so called spot around £150 to £200. It's a little surprising to find, therefore, that the GPU that forms the basis of the new Radeon HD 5870 is significantly larger than the, despite the advantage of a process shrink from 55nm to 40nm transistors. Consequently, the new 5870 will sell for closer to £300.
Formatting wd 4tb passport for mac os. Hi all, I recently bought a second ati 5870 card to add to my nicely running Hackintosh. Who has a hackintosh with two fully working ATI cards? When I install the second card the hackintosh starts up until after the apple logo the screen turns completely white and restarts after a while. -I can not change to Peg2 in the bios for the primary card, a solution offered in other forums.
(gigabyte motherboard) - do I need to make a dsdt, and if so how can I do it? -the new ATI card does not work when it is the only installed card, how can I make it working first? My specs: Snow Leopard 10.6.8 Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 rev. 2.0 FB - Intel Core i7 950 - SSD OCZ Vertex Series 60 GB - 2TB Samsung Spinpoint - Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S223C - 12 GB GeIL Value Plus Hexa-Channel Kit ATI Radeon HD 5870 Trust Ultra Small Bluetooth 2 USB Adapter - Scythe Mugen 2 CPU koeler - CoolerMaster Silent Pro M1000 - Coolermaster HAFX Casing Who can set me on the righty track? Hi guys, I have made considerable progress, but I am not there yet.
I have 2 Ati 5870 cards work oob, but with GraphicsEnabler=No, this causes several programs not to start (such as dvd player, Ableton & Resolume, which I need). I have logged my activities precisely, in the hope that others can be of help. With 1 card installed GraphicsEnabler=Yes works, the card is recognised as a 5870 and also the desired programs work. Reordering chart excel for mac pdf. With the second card installed GraphicsEnabler=Yes does not work and system hangs at apple logo screen. With graphicsenabler=No both cards are recognised as 5800 cards, but the desired programs do not work. HOW CAN I GET BOTH CARDS RECOGNISED AS 5870 CARDS WITH GRAPHICSENABLER=YES?
This mail contains: 1 MY ACTIONS 2 MY SPECS 3 TROUBLESHOOTING Can you give me some suggestions on how to fix this problem? Check both cards work individually - i.e. Remove one 5870 and boot with graphics enabler, and then remove that card and swap it for the other. If they both work then they should work as a pair - if one doesn't work with graphicsenabler then you may find it has a different set of device id's to the other card and may need adding to the ati.c file of chameleon. I have 2*6870's in one of my hacks and both are recognised correctly (I only use a single display though as they are used for crossfire in windows). Check both cards work individually - i.e. Remove one 5870 and boot with graphics enabler, and then remove that card and swap it for the other.