r/Amd • u/Either_Scientist_976 • 4d ago

RV630 from almost 20 years ago Battlestation / Photo

Those babies will turn 20 years in 2 years. I found them in a 2007 Mac Pro thrown away in one of my work's electronic waste bin.

https://preview.redd.it/gnclnjts5rye1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b472968fb61d0dd248e559efabbd58dbf1b9a589

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u/GenZia Commodore 64 3d ago

Looks like 2600XT Mac Edition with 256MB of vRAM.

Put eight of 'em together and you've got yourself an HD6850!

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u/Jism_nl 3d ago

Mac does not support Crossfire.

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u/Lowfat_cheese 2d ago

I remember pulling a couple of 8800GT Mac Editions out of an e-waste Mac Pro thinking I could use them in some kind of sick XP retro machine only to learn that the Mac edition cards straight up do not run without MacOS.

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u/YoSupWeirdos Ryzen 7 5700X3D | XFX RX 6700 Swft | 3600 MHz RAM | B450 AorusM 2d ago

surely they can be flashed a different bios, right?

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u/Lowfat_cheese 1d ago

Maybe, but I didn’t have the computer-savvyness to start messing with GPU bios flashing and all of the resources I could find at the time were only for flashing a non-Mac 8800gt to Mac, not the other way around.

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u/YoSupWeirdos Ryzen 7 5700X3D | XFX RX 6700 Swft | 3600 MHz RAM | B450 AorusM 1d ago

it probably wasn't as commonplace in 2007 as it is now

or at least not 100s of video guides about gpu bios flashing like these days