[G4] Mac or PC Radeon 8500 card?

[michael Vogt]

I bought mine new from OWC its in sawtooth 400 in panther device ID say 
Ox514c  and mine is a 64 meg car
Michael & Sharon  Vogt <><d
On Jan 21, 2004, at 7:11 AM, <csean at poc.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Speaking of G4 upgrades...
> I just got my Radeon 8500 Mac Edition, which I'm putting in my G4/350
> Sawtooth together with a Sonnet G4/1 Ghz; got both upgrades at good 
> prices
> on ebay.
>
> As I was installing the Radeon, a thought hit me: is there any way to 
> tell
> the difference between the Mac and PC Radeon 8500?
> I have no reason to mistrust the ebay seller, but given how many PC 
> Radeon
> 8500s were sold and how easy it is to flash them for Mac....
>
> Just thinking out loud here. But is there any way to look at the cards 
> and
> tell if one is really an original Mac Edition card?
>
> It shows up in ASP in both 9 and Jaguar as a 64MB ATI, of course, and 
> seems
> to work fine.
>
> Thanks,