So, the brand new shrink wrapped Sapphire Pulse was flashed with a MSI firmware?
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The most probable is that this was a GPU that someone tried to flash the firmware stolen from MacVidcards and then returned to the seller.
Btw, you can't know if the card really have a Samsung memory as GPU-Z says when the GPU is flashed with a incorrect firmware.
Hmm ... yeh.
I've gone through my records and my memory was wrong.
What happened was I bought a new RX 580, the correct one, but did not install it. Their price went right up, and I thought I should sell it and wait for their prices to come down. So I made a good profit on it.
But then I realised I wanted one (I had thought about twin thinner 460s and also some Pro cards which are good for CAD), so I bought another one - for more than I sold the card I bought new!!! The seller is a local Mac repairer and he claimed he never used it ... in fact, he not only buggered it up, but he even broke it's duel bios switch, and he never told me any of that. To break that switch, he must have gone berserk I reckon. The package was sold and it looked brand new too, it was all shrink wrapped. But those shrink plastic rolls with un-winders and hot air blow guns are cheap and every retailer has one!! Ebay can be a dangerous place if one doesn't test things immediately!
I got stung all right!
I was looking at a brand new XFX RX 580 today, with a three year warranty - but it turns out it's a Chinese style with the 2048 or something ... that doesn't work. For about $US90. The same retailer has a 6600XT for around $US155. I thought about that, but they can get complicated.
Mucking around with flashing, I saw various reports about the high prices of GPUs are going to get worse. I realised that is another reason why Apple leant towards dropping 3rd party GPUs - the amount of profit those companies make - AMD and Nvidia - would have been too much for Apple to take. So they gave up on the upgradeable model and kicked it into the gutter. Along with the 7,1 i guess which was a deception, sadly. But then if they had continued on with Intel or even AMD and threadrippers, I reckon the bargain 7,1s would not exist, and the cheap ones out there would never have come onto the market.
I did not install the card into the Windows computer properly or one part of that AMDVBFlash installation ... and I found the correct evidently 2.9x version as well. I will have a go soon, and I have only three bios's to try, because of the branding on the label which indicates just three bios available. I will try them one at a time until one works I guess. A bit painful but it serves me right ....
My son and I put the Windows PC together, and then he changed the motherboard with a mate who is training specialist doctor (friends from school), and their installation was very messy. The PC filters and blades are covered in brown thick dust and the thing is very noisy indeed. I will clean it and I feel like changing the fans to something quite. It's a Lian box and has a couple of nice things, and a whole lot of bad ones as well. I bought it's 1000 watt power supply years ago and it's still going, and at least it is quiet.
I seem hypnotised by the pleasant appearance of the Mac interface. It should not mater, but the Windows one is worse than a Mac was back in system 8 days. I presume Win 11 looks good. I am not doing any of it tonight as I've had some fab red wine from the Barossa, and I fear I may wreck things!
Thanks for the assistance! MP
