FX 5900 Ultra 256mb

Hi,
I recently bought a Geforce FX 5900 Ultra 256mb OEM and i flashed the bios to a 5950 Leadtek bios. Its working fine, but im wondering where i can get a Vivo cable? I looked on ebay and newegg no one sells it seperately or does the Vivo function not work anymore because i flashed it with the 5950 Leadtek bios?
Thnx

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
The most powerful, current 4x AGP Mac graphics card is the ATI Radeon 9800 Mac Pro RoHS (128mb).
The 256mb version is no longer produced, but is occasionally found used, or as a flashed PC version.
The Geforce 5900 was never made in a Mac version.
There are equally, or more powerful, flashed graphics card options. The ATI 9800XT, the Geforce 6800, and the Geforce 7800 are available as, or can be converted to Mac compatible cards.
If you pursue a flashed card, do your research, and you could have very good results.
http://themacelite.wikidot.com/
http://themacelite.com/forums/index.php

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Total Local Video Memory @ 256mb
Total Local Texture Memory @ 256mb....and then frustratingly....
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In all probability it won't, but maybe there's an outside chance that this occurence is relatedas the FX5600 and the 5900 aren't that disimilar or detached from one another when all is said and done either other than the blatantly obvious lol!!
I'm posting in hope that maybe it could be of use after reading your posts and otherwise hope that those concerned are sorted and rid of the issue in the near future too, good luck !!

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http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showindex.php?s=&postid=190078#post190078
NVIDIA was made aware of an issue involving the GeForce FX 5900 series of graphics cards where some users have reported a slight "flickering" of the image on their screen, visible on a light color background in certain 3D scenes.
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hi,
i bought this one a few days ago and was
just wondering why this card have no MSI TWIN FLOW
cooling system (it only have the nvidia referenz cooling).
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When the new FX 5900 Ultra will be available? I´m upgrading my system and I want one.

fbomber666,
I have not heard of a date yet.
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