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Radeon 6870 running 10.7.3?

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hector66

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Mar 10, 2011
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I just want to see if anybody out there has done the 10.7.3 update on their Mac Pro with a Radeon 6870 card?

I remain paranoid that the support without flashing is too good to be true and will vanish with new video drivers that will come with OS updates.

Please let me know about your successes/failures.
 
hector66 said:
I just want to see if anybody out there has done the 10.7.3 update on their Mac Pro with a Radeon 6870 card?

I remain paranoid that the support without flashing is too good to be true and will vanish with new video drivers that will come with OS updates.

Please let me know about your successes/failures.
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Yes. Works fine.
 
hector66 said:
I just want to see if anybody out there has done the 10.7.3 update on their Mac Pro with a Radeon 6870 card?

I remain paranoid that the support without flashing is too good to be true and will vanish with new video drivers that will come with OS updates.

Please let me know about your successes/failures.
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yes!!! I am about to install the XFX 6870 and I am probably not going to flash it due to being a scaredy cat about bricking it. I hope Apple keeps support for this. I am thinking that if they wanted to get rid of it they would have done so in 10.7.1 or .2 though so hopes to that.

Anyone any info please?


By the way is there any disadvantages about not flashing apart from no boot screen? Like any lower performances on anything?

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ClassObject said:
Yes. Works fine.
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Thanks a lot mate!
 
KingJosh said:
By the way is there any disadvantages about not flashing apart from no boot screen? Like any lower performances on anything
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I run an MSI 6870 and the fan would constantly run at high speed until I flashed it. Silent now.
 
ClassObject said:
I run an MSI 6870 and the fan would constantly run at high speed until I flashed it. Silent now.
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hmm thanks for that. I better start looking up flashing guide then. I was on the netkas forum but stuff is everywhere scattered kinda hard to get my head around what I have to do. I will do some more research though
 
KingJosh said:
hmm thanks for that. I better start looking up flashing guide then. I was on the netkas forum but stuff is everywhere scattered kinda hard to get my head around what I have to do. I will do some more research though
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I used netkas' rom and method using a PC to flash. I never could get the ati flash tool for Mac to work, pretty buggy. I used this method:

Link
 
Yes, it appears to work fine.. I feel dumb though, I should've asked this question/read this thread before I upgraded, I forgot about the bricking possibility (Whew! Dodged a bullet on that one).
 
what about 4890HD? the classic one !
Can I update my system ? to 10.7.3 ? already ?
BR
 
hector66 said:
Yes, I guess Time Machine can get me out of a bind if necessary, but it's still a pain and a timesink to restore.
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Not if you use a different backup solution. I can restore 200GB in 1-2 Hours on clean disk. TM sucks.
 
Cindori said:
no, netkas no longer makes reverse engineered 4800 drivers with added 4890 support afaik
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sounds bad !:eek: so I can't update ! and I don't want to install&remove , and have lots of data in mac partition !

BR
 
Cindori said:
no, netkas no longer makes reverse engineered 4800 drivers with added 4890 support afaik
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Not to disagree in any sense, both the Radeon HD 4870 and 4890 is old (even though I still rock a 4890 here heh) but his blog seems to indicate otherwise.

netkas said:
10.7.3 is out as you know, will try to make my usual patches as soon as I can.
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