Well neither do a ton of 2012-2015-era Macs. Do we know exactly what Family 2 support gets you over Family 1 in Mojave? If it's a lot then I'm screwed as I have a 2015 MBP and 2015 iMac
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Macvidcards: radio silence after sending unflashed GTX 1080
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Well neither do a ton of 2012-2015-era Macs. Do we know exactly what Family 2 support gets you over Family 1 in Mojave? If it's a lot then I'm screwed as I have a 2015 MBP and 2015 iMac
I haven't seen an iMac Pro available in my local Micro Center for some time. I wonder if they stopped stocking them.
Their website allows the selection of a local retail store. Chicago (area 2 stores both) , Brooklyn , Houston , Cleveland , Columbus , Cincinnati , Atlanta, and Cambridge have them. Several don't (but numbered fewer that the other random selections).
Where they don't move much they probably don't re-order. There is only one model in stock at each of the stores so the rest are perhaps special order.
I set the filter for $2,000+ iMacs so there is a regular 27" iMac in that class too and it isn't too much more in stock than the iMac Pro at most locations. ( it has very low stock when the iMac Pro is at zero, but it isn't in high stock either. ). Points to them not wanted to fill lots of forward deployed inventory with high end iMacs.
As it's been over 5 months since the original post, and I skimmed through the thread and may have missed something, I have to ask...
What was your final resolution?
Also, OP if you can send me a copy of your proof of purchase I maybe able to get you that 1080 ROM you've paid for. Just shoot me a PM.
Because it DOESN'T appear to have been resolved, and inquiring minds what to know. It potentially involves many of us.
Probabilities are worthless in matters like this.
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I am curious myself as he was very quick to rally up his supporters to attack me and my thread but can't seem to deliver on his own flashing service.
Sold my flashed 680 with my Mac Pro on CL. Sold my MVC flashed 980 here on MR.
I'm sure it's a good option but our good fellow doesn't have enough rep on here to qualify to use the marketplace.
What's up with the NEGATIVE MVC TROLLING going on here?? ROM's were pulled and posts were deleted for a reason.
PLEASE contribute or move on. This thread needs to be closed,
PLEASE contribute or move on. This thread needs to be closed,
Why are you white knighting MVC so much? Are you his alt account or something? The ROM was pulled because I respected his wishes not because he won some type of legal arguement. I just want to know what happened to this guy.
See post #68 which should answer your question:
"This thread has been idle for a while, but I've also been having customer service pains with him."
Pretty sure modern cards from both Nvidia and AMD do code signature checking on the BIOS, so things like aftermarket flashing of custom BIOS onto them is likely not going to be a thing with current and certainly not future generation cards.
i.e., if you have a 10 series Nvidia card, which never had a macOS EFI/BIOS released for it due to Apple not shipping said card in a product, you're boned and can't update the EFI/BIOS on it.
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looks like i am wrong. I wouldn't bet on being able to get 11 series GTX flashed though due to the code-signing as per above.
i.e., if you have a 10 series Nvidia card, which never had a macOS EFI/BIOS released for it due to Apple not shipping said card in a product, you're boned and can't update the EFI/BIOS on it.
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looks like i am wrong. I wouldn't bet on being able to get 11 series GTX flashed though due to the code-signing as per above.
I wouldn't bet on 11 series cards being supported, period. We're at nVidia's mercy at this point.
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I was attempting to communicate with MVC via his personal address. He never responded. I gave up a few months back, and replaced the (MVC flashed) 960 in the Mac Pro, and put the 1080 into a windows machine, which I've been using as my main CAD machine. I think Windows is fine for documents, email, even CAD, but still can't get used to software development under Windows--I much prefer my Mac for that. As it happens, I was eyeing some of the Ebay sellers of flashed cards over the past few days.
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A big, hearty Thank You for the image!
For those following the thread, I did send my proof of purchase. I think MVC, despite his terrible customer service and unreliability, does add value to the ecosystem, and I prefer to encourage his activies.
Well if you follow what happened with the 780 ROM it turns out all Mac ROMs past the 680 are made by him anyway so I guess it doesn't matter who you buy it from. I don't recommend those other people for other reasons such as the fact they are selling something that isn't theirs. It may not be illegal but it's not fair to the modder who put the ROMs out there.
This “modder” problem and is a good reason for Apple to NOT build a mac that allows people to muck up their computer with non sanctioned parts then sell it as a “MAC”. If you modify any “branded” product you can’t expect the original maker to support your issues. Since MVC does not have access to all the trade secrets (apple and nvidia) that would be required to build a rom why wouldn’t you expect to have issues at some point. Even if apple and nvidia worked together a Mac edition might have issues. Legal or not Its just a bad investment.
We just are not left with a whole lot of choice, nVidia offer "bata" support for PC cards in cMP, but without boot screens. This raises issues with recovery mode and OS X updates that break the nVidia web drivers.
It's just a real pain to fix when you have no graphics at all.
Really, it's on Apple for using UGA rather than GOP, and nVidia for not offering any UGA compatible cards pasted the GTX 680. Tho it hard to get you board partners to go to the expense when they know card flashers will undercut their profits.
Years ago, back in the PPC days, I contacted nVidia about offering a retail nVidia card, and they very Kindly replied that the minimum order to become a board partner was 250k GPU's. With the cMP going on 6 years since Apple shipped the last one, we can start to see why a board partner wouldn't want to pre order 250k GPU's to fill the market, knowing that the first few that shipped would end up in the hands of card flashers, and the ROM would likely be posted here;-)
nVidia owns the copyright to the ROM's, not their board partners, nVidia provides a reference rom and a tool to plug in values for PCB revision done by their board partners. So long as nVidia does not issue take down notices to uphold their copyright, their board partners get screwed for making retail Mac cards. nVidia really has no interest in issuing take down notices, as every rom that is shared/hacked sells a nVidia GPU, and they don't get any more money for a PC/Mac GPU.
Yep. Vega BIOS can’t be modified. At least Windows won’t boot it. Probably same for 11 series Nvidia.
It's pure speculation on my part, but MVC has been able to create UGA ROM's using older roms as a reference, so he/they maybe able to bypass this using a highly edited UGA rom.
These firmware checks wouldn't apply.
I don't really know why nVidia/AMD would want to prevent users from modding roms, as most cards are sold to crypto miners, and we want to lower voltage and raise clock rates in order to get the most MH/s at the lowest power usage. Maybe their board partners are seeing very high RMA's and raising noise with AMD/nVidia about modders returning too many cards.