I've been looking into buying a 9800Pro Mac Ed. for my PowerMac (specs in sig) however the cheapest I've found them for, is around the £340 mark ($600+ USD), now the 'normal' 9800Pro can be had for less than £150.

I always thought the higher price was because (amongst other factors) the ME would feature an ADC connection, which I require for my cinema display, however I read this morning that the 9800Pro ME Retail does not feature an ADC connector, just VGA and DVI, so in order to use it, I actually need to buy a DVI->ADC converter anyway!!

In my mind, that makes the £340 price tag seem even more harsh than it did before. So I was wondering if it's possible for me to just dump a 'normal' 9800Pro in my Mac, as buying the ME just isn't viable.

I previously read all that was needed is a firmware flash to the card to make it work in a Mac, does anyone have any info on this?

Thanks for any help.

The ability to flash a PC card to Mac was lost a few cards ago....

The 9800 Pro SE Radeon for Mac does come with the ADC connector on the retail card (256mb) version. The non-pro version (128mb) is the one with the DVI/VGA set up....

ATI RADEON 9800 PRO MAC SPECIAL EDITION Video Card, 256MB DDR, ADC/DVI, 8X AGP -RETAIL


- Specifications -

Chipset: ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Memory: 256MB DDR
BUS: AGP 8X
Ports: ADC + DVI
Support 3D API: DirectX 9, OpenGL 1.5
Max Resolution@32bit Color: 2048X1536@85Hz
OS Support: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later

They're a bit pricey i agree.

Even though you're in the U.K. i'm sure these companys would ship for you.

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail...mail,mwbfroogle


$279 USD + shipling aka 150 GBP or so

Hope it helps : )

The 256mb "special edition" is for G5's (note the 8x AGP). The 128mb version for G4's came with an ADC on the OEM card offered by Apple for BTO machines, however the retail comes with DVI and VGA.

muzzle, it's pretty much looking that I will have to import one, seems the best way at the moment.

Yep you're right....my bad. Looks like you would also have to fork over the bucks for the ADC to DVI thing-a-ma-jig....

Unfortunately SPeedY_B i too can only find the 9800 with DVi/VGA however i dont know if this list is of any use to you?

the only obvious one is the 9000 which you already have tho

The price for this card is sickening.

OMG!! incredible 228 $ of diference SICK!

If they dont want to send to U.K. lemme know i'll forward the post to you.

I wouldn't see why a company wouldn't if they verified funds.

Agreed. Double the price for some different firmware...

I've got one brand new in the box I'll let you have for cheap, Give me a PM