Uses a Temp Sensor that can cause long boot times under Mac OS X 10.5.x if you use it on a G4. You will get a Kernel Panic if used in an older version. XFX 'WANG' GeForce 6200, 256 Megs RAM, $49 from Newegg. I have flashed a few PC video cards for use in Apple Macintosh systems. I will be putting some ROMs/firmware on my site to help others with flashing video cards for Macs. People that can't keep a website up, people that lose interest in helping the community, and those who are greedy that try to keep the money-saving (or potentially money-making) information to themselves. Third party support usually comes from un-reliable sources. Devices made for Apple computers seem to cost up to ten times what they do for PC, even if they use identical hardware or even slower components. Apple seems to hate supporting old hardware. There have been several things that have bothered me when trying to upgrade Mac systems: Note that much of this page is for older video cards: AGP-based for PowerPC systems. My model of Radeon HD5870 is the 'Built by AMD' reference design. It came with an ATI Radeon X1900 card, and I was able to flash one of my old AMD Radeon HD5870 cards for use in it. This is one of the systems that Apple abandoned way too soon.

I recently got an Intel-based Mac Pro (MacPro2,1).