I've purchased a flashed GTX 470 a while ago from macvidcards. It worked fine with Lion for a while but the latest update 10.7.4 broke it and now the screen flickers and the OS frequently crashes. So, I've resorted to the stock graphics card for now. That's always the downside with unofficial parts/flashed components. OS updates are more likely to break them.

Satya G Meka.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com> wrote:

3rd parties are flashing nVidia cards with mac firmware and they work except during boot up. the effort for them to support 480 / 580 /680 is pretty minimal. they couldn't even go for a fews days of an engineer's time to tweak the firmware for boot up ?

entirely possible this was a FCP X release - show nothing you're damned, do a lame update you're damned but at least it looks like something... not saying what that something is though :/

S

On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:

> I have to say, that "incremental upgrade" is a "do not buy" at the price.
> That's a substantial downgrade from current shipping tech and missing
> internal and external SATA 6gb and Thunderbolt not mention old CPU tech.
> They should have dropped the price 25-40% if that's what they are calling an
> upgrade. Clearly, they wanted to use all the same parts and not even upgrade
> the motherboard firmware. That's a really, really lame "upgrade".
>

>> This MacPro could also just be a stopgap system. They might (or might
> not) roll out something better when Mountain Lion is released. They've done
> that in the past.
>

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