kitch Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Anoyone else notice this? I can't really complain all the games I've tried thus far run great. But if you go to the video card options I noticed that it shows up as a Mobility part. Ah well, back to: HL2 (1680x1050 full settings) CS (1680x1050 full settings) BF2 (1680x1050 full settings) FEAR (1280x768 Medium settings, this game is a KILLER) Anything else out there with demos i should be checking out? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitterSweet Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Kitch, the iMac does use a X1600 mobility card. The CoreDuo is a notebook processor, the iMac is essentially a desktop version of a notebook. But it all works fine for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/#findComment-91901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitch Posted April 8, 2006 Author Share Posted April 8, 2006 Agreed. Everything works GREAT. However if you check out the apple site, it specifically says the MMPs have a Mobility x1600 chipset and the iMac is an x1600. Ah well. I'm keeping it anyway . http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/whatsinside.html http://www.apple.com/imac/whatsinside.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/#findComment-91919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Would you dump you Mobility x1600 BIOS? pls, use the following utility: ATITool 0.24/0.25. www.techpowerup.com Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/#findComment-92400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitch Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 Would you dump you Mobility x1600 BIOS? pls, use the following utility: ATITool 0.24/0.25.www.techpowerup.com Any other ideas? ATITool said it didn't support my card, use ATIWinflash, it told me unsupported ROM type. Any information I can gather? As mentioned elsewhere my iMac with 256meg card is clocked at 400/400 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/#findComment-92476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Wow. I did not see any case like that before. Maybe an EFI Memory dumping tool would help. If we could dump the ROM, it should be easier to overclock it, or tweak the RAM timing table to get maximum performance in graphic apps. And would you provide information about the driver in Apple Boot Camp CD and the EFI partition (If you would dump, zip it and send to me)? I do not have the intel Mac right now, so it is difficult for me to extract the driver from CD image. (I have managed to extract the Apple firmware from FW update CD and backup CD, the .exe driver installer, the .msi installer but now I'm stuck in the hardware checking before driver installed) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/#findComment-92488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Just found some tool to extract content of .msi file. Tonight at home I will play with the Apple driver installer. There is tool to edit ATI ATOM BIOS. I'm not sure x1600 in Macbook use ATOM or other structure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/#findComment-92505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitch Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 Wow. I did not see any case like that before. Maybe an EFI Memory dumping tool would help. If we could dump the ROM, it should be easier to overclock it, or tweak the RAM timing table to get maximum performance in graphic apps.And would you provide information about the driver in Apple Boot Camp CD and the EFI partition (If you would dump, zip it and send to me)? I do not have the intel Mac right now, so it is difficult for me to extract the driver from CD image. (I have managed to extract the Apple firmware from FW update CD and backup CD, the .exe driver installer, the .msi installer but now I'm stuck in the hardware checking before driver installed) LOTS of people over at onMac are overclocking their cards with varying results. http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=767 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14328-xp-shows-mobility-x1600-on-imac/#findComment-92762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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