Well why did you take only part of my quote? I end the quote saying that it's a bad idea because their "DB"s.
Well why would you only take part of my quote? I literally end it by saying it's a bad idea because those people are "DB"s. If your going to criticize something I say, please use the entire quote especially if your are trying to make it look like I'm encouraging giving business to people who steal.
What pl1984 said.
This is the thread to discuss MVC customer service (in a civil way). I didn't know he was banned from this forum, though.Because I likely need personal (physical) service from him, and possibly resolve payment issues. I also happen to live in the same city, which makes it quite easy, if he was responsive. And I find it a bit ridiculous to need to post it in a public forum. 3 of his email addresses and a private message on netkas should be more than plenty to get his attention.
Well if you don't you will be kinda stuck with a GTX 680 or R9 280X as your fastest card if you want boot screens. You can of course buy off one of his competitors on ebay but expect quality to be hit or miss as all they are doing is flashing a dump of his ROM. I actually left one of those guys negative feedback recently for bad customer service.
Even though I have dumps for other cards now. I can't just send them since it would A be a dick move B I'm probably going to face another wave of fanboys harassing me. Maybe if MVC stopped offering to flash cards or sell them for whatever reason, I'd consider posting the 780 ROM again at least. But, until then I don't want him to be under the impression that I'm trying to cut down his business.
Sorry for jumping the gun a bit there. As you may have noticed, I've been getting attacked for sharing my opinions on the internet. Fortunately, it seems the main culprit has been banned. I still do not agree with your post. Both MVC and ebay "pirates" are using the exact same ROM with likely the exact same flashing procedure. The only way I could see something going wrong is if an ebay pirate is flashing a ROM for an EVGA ICX card onto a ASUS Strix Card. If you flash for example a SC ICX ROM onto a FTW ICX card there is little chance for any ill effects other than a reduced base clock which you could correct via overclocking in Windows. For example, I have an MSI founders edition 1080ti. It is the exact same PCB as a Nvidia Founders edition. At stock, there is a slightly different bios on it to identify it as a MSI 1080ti (check techpowerup). I get my 1080ti back from MVC and guess what has a modded Nvidia Founders Edition bios (I poked around in GPUZ for a few minutes to figure that out). There was no ill effect of that other than the card not identifying itself as an MSI card. The cooler is the same,clock speeds are the same, and even the display out are. The point is that as long as they don't flash like a founders edition bios onto a icx card (which have different fan curves) there shouldn't be any ill effect and the end product is the exact same as MVC's. I still don't recommend buying from those people tho. They did still steal it even if it's not against the law for them to do so.Because I was just talking about technical reasons which you forgot to mention. I understood your post as "it doesn't matter where you buy, you'll end up with exactly the same product", which isn't true.
I completely agree with the rest of that post.
Also, I did read something about how if you have a buggy bios you need a new microsoldered eeprom. That is not the case. I could fix that in about 2 minutes with nvflash and a download of a known good dump off techpowerup.
If I need something more capable then I would be using a PC. I see few reasons why I would remain using a Mac for work which requires something more capable. If Apple isn't interested in doing so why should I?
Well personally I don't do anything graphically intensive on MacOS. The graphic drivers and opengl support on macos is straight up garbage, in my opinion. The only reason why I even bother putting in a high end video in my MacPro is that I don't want two computers on my desk (I could just get a KVM switch) or make a hackintosh. I would probably be able to make one just fine. I just don't want to deal with the hassle of apple breaking it on every update or having to deal with the dozens of issues that community faces with drivers and stuff.
Almost all the time if I plan to do something that is GPU intensive, such as playing Fortnite. Everything else is done in MacOS as I hate Windows with a passion.
OK, let's not go too far with the assumptions. If you flashed like a 760 with a 780 bios it would brick. eBay also has very good buyer protection so if things went wrong you could always pull out. That is banking on the customer knowing they have been screwed.
