more testing: same system - 150mhz bus with dual 1.12Ghz G4 on SSD to IDE.
X800 PC card that i got off ebay.
https://i.imgur.com/SKv0mEy.jpegloaded in 10.5.12
https://i.imgur.com/Fj209Tf.jpeg in my searching i could not find good info on what would or would not work. i hunted for a VIVO edition (video in/video out) as i had one of these as a kid. ATI binned their GPU dies and on all their cards except the XTPE and Vivo - the dies were known defective or poor performing compared to the XTPE (top of the line). on the LE/pro/and XT non vivo; 90% of those cards had a small laser cut on the die itself, physically disabling 4 pipelines. in their testing im assuming they found some bad lines and this was their ewaste work around. the SE's did NOT have this done BUT their clock speeds were 50% of the XTPE so pipelines were good but the cards just could not hold voltage or clocks needed for top end models (or maybe they just needed to fill a void in teh market but i kind of doubt that given the price?)
i Physically removed the resistors on pins 3/11
https://i.imgur.com/e5dTFhr.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/BdG2S8p.jpegI chose to grab a rom off
http://themacelite.wikidot.com/wikidownloads2 for the X800 retail. Now its worth noting here that the PC version of the PRO is missing 4 pixel pipelines rops and shaders as well as slower clocks where as the mac edition has all 16 pipes enabled. i do not know what would happen if you flash the mac rom to a non vivo card that has the laser cut? errors id assume as its missing links on the die. the only difference from the X800XT and the X850 is the clock speeds.
The mac edition card has slower clocks than the PC version. the mac version is also an AGP pro that will not work in a G4 QS so its a non starter anyway.
I removed the factory rom chip as a safe backup as well as dumped it to the PC.
https://i.imgur.com/ud6gqNi.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/yLER2V7.jpegthe factory ROM chip on this asus card was 512kb which is more than enough for factory roms, so im not sure why there is so much talk on reduced roms for the later cards. a 7000 i get but ive never seen a card in the X and newer generation with such a small rom chip.
either way i loaded a 1mb rom from digikey (i keep a sleeve on hand) after flashing it via usb. total time is less than 3 minutes to flash/solder/up and running. i much prefer the rom swap and external flash os oppsoed to using a PC or dos or what ever flashing program.
first booted into OS9.2.2, obviously no drivers.
graphics mix is 962% faster with 9200DVI drivers
https://i.imgur.com/sDHK1Tx.jpeghere is the card in cinebench 10.5.12
C4D:134
SW:413
HW:1015
https://i.imgur.com/CBxIqz2.jpegI intend to overclock this card to XTPE and then to X850XTPE clock speeds as i test the limits here. i will also try this in 10.4.9 and i need to look into driver dates/versions.
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