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

[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)

 

[injectx]

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)

There are other framebuffers, test them (check my sig).

 

[the_gael]

new updates added to list on first post - thanks everyone

 

[doof]

Duckweed, Gibba etc are framebuffer personalities. They control the output port mapping. Duckweed is a four output personality, 2 displayport, 1 HDMI, and 1 DVI. Thats why it kills the second DVI. Gibba has five outputs but drops performance for some reason. BCC9 and Mucha at insanely mac have posted tools for parsing the card roms and drivers to extract the personality info and explain how to hexedit the personalities in the ATI section, but its not for the feint of heart.

 

[cooperleeray]

If you don't want to read the long winded version, here is a straight to the point version:"Now I have found two models on newegg, but in this case the 5870 is actually $10 cheaper after rebate. Which card would you go with if you were ordering the card? I notice a lot of you are going with the 6870, but I am not sure why.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102909
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125316"

I can attest that the 5870 you linked to works with Chameleon and GE=yes. Theres one odd issue when booting into the os that i need to sleep the computer to get the display to turn on, but after that it runs great.

 

[Ice]

Successful

Brand=Sapphire
Model=HD 5850 1GB, PCI-E x16 2.0, DP, HDMI
Device ID=0x6899
Multibeast=3.4
MacOS=10.6.7
Reported by=Ice