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PowerfulEra

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I had an 1950 xt flashed on my quad but sadly it died and cant find a proper replacment gpus here for the machine on mac os x. Only options i have is the x1900 gt v2 or x1900 xt from mac pro. Do you guys think that 1900 xt will work on the quad with ppc rom or should i get the x1900 gt.
 

weckart

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The X1950XT is definitely available from a number of sellers but the price is bonkers.

Probably will have to settle for a 7800GTX and flash it if you can or the 1900GT and live with the artefacts.
 

barracuda156

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The X1950XT is definitely available from a number of sellers but the price is bonkers.

Probably will have to settle for a 7800GTX and flash it if you can or the 1900GT and live with the artefacts.

What's wrong with 1900GT? It is natively supported on Mac OS PPC.
 

redheeler

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I had an 1950 xt flashed on my quad but sadly it died and cant find a proper replacment gpus here for the machine on mac os x. Only options i have is the x1900 gt v2 or x1900 xt from mac pro. Do you guys think that 1900 xt will work on the quad with ppc rom or should i get the x1900 gt.
Check out this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-edition-cheap-n-easy-flashing-guide.2308103/

ATI sold an official X1900 for PCIe (Late 2005) Power Mac G5 systems but these are hard to find, however a PC version can be flashed with its firmware. As far as I'm aware a Mac Pro X1900 can't be though.
 
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Macbookprodude

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Check out this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-edition-cheap-n-easy-flashing-guide.2308103/

ATI sold an official X1900 for PCIe (Late 2005) Power Mac G5 systems but these are hard to find, however a PC version can be flashed with its firmware. As far as I'm aware a Mac Pro X1900 can't be though.
I beg to differ... I found it and just bought one. This guy has plenty of them he tells me.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/281312852047?hash=item417f8d784f:g:fCYAAOSwVtZaBtoB - This is the MAC EDITION.
 

bunnspecial

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I ran a Mace edition X1900XT in my office G5 Quad(which is still in storage) for quite a while. I put the card in it probably in 2015 and I last used it late 2019 or so. It was a good card but I never pushed it with what I did on that computer, and in general it started getting a lot less use as more and more stuff I needed for work "broke" on it.
 

barracuda156

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I ran a Mace edition X1900XT in my office G5 Quad(which is still in storage) for quite a while. I put the card in it probably in 2015 and I last used it late 2019 or so. It was a good card but I never pushed it with what I did on that computer, and in general it started getting a lot less use as more and more stuff I needed for work "broke" on it.

What did you replace it with then?
 

bunnspecial

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What did you replace it with then?

Replace what?

I shuffled a lot of the PPC-specific tasks I did on that computer to an SL VM on my Mac Pro 1,1 that was in my office, and that I could, at the time, still access Office 365 email, Dropbox, etc from...

I never used the Quad to run OS 9 software since it was a lot more useful to me on Leopard, so some OS 9 only programs or even 68K programs I used were always done on a Beige G3 with a Sonnet 1ghz G4.
 
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bunnspecial

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I thought that you replaced the card with another to make better of your Quad.

No, sorry. IIRC from the benchmarks, there are situations where the X1900XT outperforms the FX4500, although I don't remember exactly what those situations are.

I also like that it's only single height as opposed to the FX4500.
 
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barracuda156

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Okay, I got X1900, it works in the Quad, both in 10.5.8 and 10.6. Official driver/app from ATI also installed in both systems.

I do have a weird issue though that when I choose 1920x1080 resolution, i get a black stripe on the left: that is, whole screen is shrunk (so I do see the whole screen normally, but a monitor has a dead space). When I rescale to other resolution, whole screen gets utilized. Dunno what to make of this. Odd.
 

Amethyst1

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I do have a weird issue though that when I choose 1920x1080 resolution, i get a black stripe on the left: that is, whole screen is shrunk (so I do see the whole screen normally, but a monitor has a dead space).
Are there any settings related to Overscan?
 

barracuda156

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Are there any settings related to Overscan?

There is Enable ATI Hardware Scaler on Non-Apple Panels, which could be relevant. Display Scaling is at 100% (Maximum), which was the default. Basically I did not change any advanced ATI settings manually so far.
 
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