10.6.7 Native ATi 5xxx/6xxx Cards which work (and don't)

[injectx]

i Love new HIS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161370

975 mHZ

That card definitely looks nice. Wonder what impact the extra 75Mhz would have.

EDIT: it does around 10fps extra in FarCry 2 (compared to a reference 6870)

I wonder if a Arctic cooler would perform better when manually overclocked. Those Arctic GPU coolers really are awesome and very inexpensive.

EDIT 2: With the Accelero Twin Turbo Pro from Arctic(around $45), the clocks can be upped even more (1060Core, 1250 memory). Check here.

But yeah it's gonna cost ya and the extra performance would be for Windows use only if you want to overclock manually since there are no gpu overclocking apps for OSX (prove me wrong?).

 

[jpa]

i Love new HIS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161370

975 mHZ

That card definitely looks nice. Wonder what impact the extra 75Mhz would have.

EDIT: it does around 10fps extra in FarCry 2 (compared to a reference 6870)

I wonder if a Arctic cooler would perform better when manually overclocked. Those Arctic GPU coolers really are awesome and very inexpensive.

EDIT 2: With the Accelero Twin Turbo Pro from Arctic(around $45), the clocks can be upped even more (1060Core, 1250 memory). Check here.

But yeah it's gonna cost ya and the extra performance would be for Windows use only if you want to overclock manually since there are no gpu overclocking apps for OSX (prove me wrong?).

yes woow card, possible buy this for me XD

 

[mjgunn]

For people who want to buy a 6870 and don't know which brand yet.. if you're looking to hook it up to a Apple LED Cinema display, you should go for the Sapphire cards.

What makes you say this injectx, because you know from experience it works or have you heard something about other 6870s not working?

I ordered the powercolor 6870 when it was on sale at newegg last week

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131383&cm_re=powercolor_6870_pcs%2b-_-14-131-383-_-Product

Not only was it the cheapest then (which was a nice bonus), but the reason I wanted it was that it's supposedly basically silent even under full load.

 

[Rankel]

or what about this one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125357

Hi,

Works
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150506

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102909

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150507

i Love new HIS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161370
975 mHZ

Well I know for a fact that at least some 5870s work without any frame buffers or editing ids, by listing a lot of 6870 are you suggesting I buy the slower and more expensive 6870? It is what I will do if the gigabyte 5870 is a pain to make work, but the xfx 5870 was flawless (besides the fan blade coming off)

 

[seanmcd72]

Netkas.org claims all you have to do is specify the CORRECT framebuffer in order to get DVD player, Steam games, etc. to start working...

Anyone have luck with this? I've tried the following with my 0x6898 5870 so far:
Zonalils, Uakari, and Nomascus to no avail.

 

[jpa]

or what about this one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125357

Hi,

Works
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150506

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102909

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150507

i Love new HIS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161370

975 mHZ

Well I know for a fact that at least some 5870s work without any frame buffers or editing ids, by listing a lot of 6870 are you suggesting I buy the slower and more expensive 6870? It is what I will do if the gigabyte 5870 is a pain to make work, but the xfx 5870 was flawless (besides the fan blade coming off)

mmm recomend card:
XFX

the 6870 works any.

Users buy and test
XFX Works nice
ASUS works nice
SAPPHIRE

choose one card...

 

[injectx]

For people who want to buy a 6870 and don't know which brand yet.. if you're looking to hook it up to a Apple LED Cinema display, you should go for the Sapphire cards.

What makes you say this injectx, because you know from experience it works or have you heard something about other 6870s not working?

I ordered the powercolor 6870 when it was on sale at newegg last week

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131383&cm_re=powercolor_6870_pcs%2b-_-14-131-383-_-Product

Not only was it the cheapest then (which was a nice bonus), but the reason I wanted it was that it's supposedly basically silent even under full load.

Well i should probably not have said that. That was mainly because i read about other Sapphire cards on InsanelyMac, which worked with Apple LED Cinema displays. Not specific 6870's . So forget what i said

 

[Rankel]

ASUS cards is better fps

6870 - 44 fps

You know what I noticed that! My Asus 6850 has better FPS than the sapphire 6870s posted on this page. Even the XFX 5870 I had benched at 46. Whats up with that? Does Asus just make a better card? The fan is crazy quiet too.

 

[doof]

Rankel, you are not loading the framebuffer. If it was loaded the card would appear as radeon 6870 not ni40, you are still on the default frame buffer. Check your boot.plist.

 

[Rankel]

Rankel, you are not loading the framebuffer. If it was loaded the card would appear as radeon 6870 not ni40, you are still on the default frame buffer. Check your boot.plist.

I really have no idea what I am doing here, I used the same method to inject duckwee/gibba as I did to inject 64 bit and graphics enabler (which I had to boot with anyboot cd to remove)