I was wondering if it's possible to just take a Dell AMD 6970m and just change the vbios chip with a chip from a Apple 6970m and have it preform as a Apple card? I know about changing the heatsink mounting and already have done that.
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AMD 6970m vbios chip
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All current iMacs have these soldered on.
In older iMacs you can switch MXM cards, but if you read the existing thread, people have had pretty poor luck.
At least with Nvidia cards, Apple uses ones that are frequently a byte different in device id. So the BIOS would not work without some pretty intense surgery.
The way to find out would be to compare the device id of the BIOS.
But even then it is an unknown if there are any other differences.
There is a thread here where I offer to help someone trying this. I am much more fluent in Nvidia EFI/BIOS modding. Nobody has sent me one yet.
In older iMacs you can switch MXM cards, but if you read the existing thread, people have had pretty poor luck.
At least with Nvidia cards, Apple uses ones that are frequently a byte different in device id. So the BIOS would not work without some pretty intense surgery.
The way to find out would be to compare the device id of the BIOS.
But even then it is an unknown if there are any other differences.
There is a thread here where I offer to help someone trying this. I am much more fluent in Nvidia EFI/BIOS modding. Nobody has sent me one yet.
You can change the Device ID of an nVidia card in the soft strap of the vBios.
Here's an example:https://www.altechnative.net/2013/1...ce-gts450gtx470gtx480-to-quadro-200050006000/
This has worked sense the Geforce 2 days or before, you can set the lower 5 bits in the Soft Strap.