If you mean "buy them" and install it. new non apple cards
The number on the card is for the PCB only - it doesn't specifiy how the board is populated with components. There are 2 GB (WX4130) and 4 GB (WX4150, RX560) cards with that same board. And so far we have seen at least three variants of how the 4 GB boards are populated - apart from the RAM chips.
The WX4150 GOP VBIOS originally came from an HP WX4150 109-C98581-10-02.
Well, they obviously have been tested in both 2009/2010 and 2011 iMacs (with one exception) - behind the scenes, and only secure information has been added to the first post.
I've got a blue HP 109-C9851-00_02 based card working in my 27" late 2009 core i5.
You would be surprised that flashing isn't that difficult. The most difficult part is taking the iMac apart. After you have taken it apart, you install the new graphics card, disconnect the hard-drive(s) and connect the Linux USB . From another computer, you can SSH into the iMac to flash the GPU.
Unfortunately, in the video that I linked, he doesn't give credit.Thank you so much herrdude for the post to that past link. I'd just seen that earlier but wasn't quite sure it was a good idea or not to use it as my card is a Dell version and that was the bios for the HP, so thought I should wait for the latest version of @nikey22's version. So is that HP bios actually an option for me for my Dell card? If so I can test it out if you recommend it. I assumed it was just an unedited HP bios and therefore not usable for me. There wasn't a lot of confirmation in that post that it was usable for us for our imacs from what I could read. But again, thank you. I'm glad to test it out! I was fortunate that someone already sent me the last version of nikey22's bios release that was pulled for now. Was going to test that out in the next few hours once I pull out and dremelize my heatsink.
Yeah. I was going to share his video for others here once I'd tried it. He has another newer video showing the 'easy' steps to do the flashing. I won't post his other video here unless you say it's alright. His newer video is called "Easy Mode: iMac GPU vbios Flash"
I appreciate his videos as it helps tremendously to see things end-to-end oftentimes. I hadn't noticed he didn't post credit back here though. That is not cool. I'll post on his YT video that he should consider taking a minute to do so.
..Oh, actually in the show notes he has a link back to this forum pointing to xanderon's post #4363. So that's good. He thanks him at the end of the video.
Thank you again!
Unfortunately, in the video I linked he doesn't give credit.I left a comment with a link to this forum.
you welcome
you welcome
can you tell me your valley bench score
add your config in your signature
We did not list any result, because we had mixed results. Cards have the same number and same source sometimes work and sometimes not. The other reason - frankly speaking - is the consumer alike "give my a free lunch" attitude of a lot of people demanding more and better information and documentation. This is a community effort. This cannot work out if 99% are sitting back in a chair until a few spend money and a lot of time into experiments. You already have the choice out of nearly 20 different cards - all inventions of the past 9 months - and it is still not good enough.
thanks for your insight im just going to get a nother 00 model for my 27 inch cuz i now it works the same dell model and put that one inside of it thanks aain for your insight
