I have a 7300gt in slot 3 at 4x and my 295gtx is in slot 1 at 16x. I'm on Snow Leopard, so didn't need drivers. I have two monitors, and I have my primary display on the 295 and the secondary on the 7300, which seems to boot just fine.
View 9 RepliesI have ordered a new Mac Pro which will arrive tomorrow. It will have the standard "ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB (Two dual-link DVI)" video card.
Thinking it would be a good thing to do, I also ordered from Amazon this video card:
"EVGA 01G-P3-N983-AR e-GeForce 9800 GT Akimbo Edition 1GB DDR3 PCI-E 2.0 Dual Slot with Upgraded Cooling Graphics Card"
Will the EVGA card work in the MacPro?
Plan on ordering the following card from NewEgg later on today, as I can't find a retailer online that will sell an 8800GT and let me return it if something goes wrong.
View 6 Replies View Relatedbut i want to be able to play lastest games max settings still.... can i run a 295gtx with the 120gt which it comes with... use the 120gt with osx and 295gtx with windows 7 / vista?
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2 Xeon E5620
EVGA SR-2
GeForce GTX 460
2 Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB hard drives
12GB RAM
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This has probably already been asked before, but I can't find if it supports the 2006 Mac Pro models? Wait nevermind. It says that it supports 2008 and 2009 on Apple's website. Darn! I wonder if it will work anyway? If someone tries it please let me know.
Ok hope I am clear about this. I just got this little thing and works perfectly in my Mac Book windows and osx. I am trying to figure out why my MacPro OsX is not displaying but would display in Mac Pro bootcamp Windows XP. I tested different means but it would not indicate anything in the screen. Does anyone have any idea to this problem? I know its not the unit as it works with other computers but its something with Mac Pro OSX.
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have any info on how loud the card is (compared to the ATI 4870, for instance)?
View 7 Replies View RelatedAfter about a year and a half, my EVGA 8800gt has gone bad, screen corruption, and eventual freezes, etc. and no problems with the original 7300gt in the machine. The part number on it is 512-P3-N801-AR, and it was used in a launch (1,1) mac pro.
Not a problem, the card has a lifetime warranty, my only concern is if I get a different card back from them. I have in the past, and just recently had a friend, perform a exchange with EVGA and had them send back a different card than was sent (it's always been a better card so no complaints at the time), but of course that would be an issue with the EFI32 firmware, etc. So if they end up being unable to send me another 8800gt which ones would be ok? I've read a bit about 9800gts flashed with the 8800 software working, etc.
Just recieved my Mac pro last week and was waiting on whats going to be updated in the new Mac pros and after yesterday I just decided I wanted a Evga NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 but now that I want one it's hard to find one. Apple has 1 to 2 months before it's shipped and I checked ebay just not having much luck finding one.There's 1 Company I found that said they have 1 in stock just not sure if it's a ploy to make me order and try to sell me something else. I thought I would post in here maybe someone here knows where I can still pick one of these up.
I have been looking into solutions to have two external monitors hooked up to my mbpro and found these two. Both get the job done, but with a huge difference in price. I was wondering if anyone has experience using both? The matrox seems better, but I think the eVGA will do well enough for what I will be using it for (light photoshopping).
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have an early 2008 Mac Pro with an EVGA 8800 GT installed. When I bought the computer the EVGA 8800 GT was almost silent even when under max load.
Now 15 months later the EVGA 8800 GT fan is making so much high pitch noise under load that I try not to use it for heavy 3d. The noises started after about 6 months after purchasing.
Monitoring the fan speed under Rivatuner shows that it goes to 100% performance under almost any load in order to keep it at a steady 80 degrees celcius.
I concluded that the fan was becomming less efficient over time and that it had to spin more and more in order to keep the temperature down.
Dust Cleaning
I try to clean the computer for dust every 4 month, blowing air backwards into the components of the computer to remove all the dust.
I normally use my mouth (trying not to spit) and a hairdryer. This seem to work okay for the most part, but not much for the EVGA 8800 GT.
After cleaning the fan is still quite audible and hovers at 85-90% under loading producing the annoying high pitch noise.
After only a few weeks its back at 100% under load. I tryed getting Apple to replace the video card, but they refuse to since it is still working. ( I hate this kind of deffinitions. )
- Would buying a can of compressed air and blowing it backwards into the EVGA 8800 GT remove more dust than the method I normally use?
- Would anyone recommend taking of the fan in order to clean it better or should the can clean enough? - trying to compare the risk of not being able to assemble the card again.
- Has anyone had any luck reducing the high pitch noise of the EVGA 8800 GT fan, and if so how?
Aftermarket Cooling
I did buy an aftermarket cooling system called Accelero S2 without the turbo module (fan) which recieves top reviews.
Despite having build some computers in the past I am a bit reluctant to install it by removing the fan completely because I am affraid that I will somehow break the video card in the process or accidently install it in a way that fries it when temperature rises under heavy load.
It sure is tempting to try the Accelero S2, but with the EVGA 8800 GT Mac going out of market I would have to dig deep in my pockets to get a replacement if something happends to the video card.
I think I also read somewhere that the instant you take of the EVGA 8800 GT fan you cannot put it back again. Which also makes me a bit nervous if the aftermarket cooler is not able to keep the card cool.
- Has anyone had luck installing the Accelero S2 without the turbo module (fan) and if so is it easy?
- Would anyone recommend installing the Accelero S2 without the turbo module? - I am not familiar with the success rate of aftermarket cooling and how skilled you need to be to be successfull.
- Has anyone had any problems not being able to keep the video card cool with the Accelero S2 and in that case was force to reinstall the default fan again?
I really wish I could reduce the noise of the fan so I can stand using it for 3d heavy stuff again.
Ok, here we go about dual monitors. First and foremost I know that the Matrox is available but I haven't found a source that stated for MBP unibody 17" will it work properly. Even if it does, the price for it is expensive!
View 2 Replies View Relatedjust before I ask the question, i'm not in the market, not at all in fact, I'm just intrested to see if the new mac pro's are as fast as the 8 core 3.2 ghz model which holds the highest geekbench score of that mac.
So, what is the fastest, cheapest one out there?
Anybody know of Mac software which is free that will convert MKV to a format I can burn to DVD?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to add some ram memory to a Mac Pro at my workplace. The Mac Pro came with 2 GB 800 MHZ. Do you think I can add this type of RAM to it? This is not ECC memory.
Also, I have red that in order for the Mac Pro to work properly needs to have all the ram sticks of the same quantity (1 Gb for example). Is this mandatory? Could I have 2 sticks of 2 GBs each and 2 of 1 GB each?
I'm tired of running iTunes off an external and it being all laggy. I want to substitute the 160 GB HDD inside my late '09 mini with a 1 TB drive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there a 10.6.4 retail DVD available for purchase?
A friend bought one a bit ago, but it was 10.6.3.
And how is it performing? how do you like it?
View 24 Replies View RelatedI wan' t to buy a Blu Ray reader to rip my Blu Ray and saw it directly via Boxee Box or other media player software.
I don' t need to write disk with that drive.
Well the time has come to change the Hard Drive in my late 2009 MAcbook. Seems that 250GB got filled up much faster then I expected and I'm left with only 40 GB or so. With that I'd like to swap out to old drive for either a 320 or 500 GB one. but I"m not sure exactly which drive to buy and what exactly will fit. The advice from the members of this forum has been invaluable to me in the past so here I am again. What would you all recommend?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen my mac boots there is a loading bar underneath the apple, it doesnt take that long, but It is a brand new hard drive that apple just replaced, none of the disk repairs/verifications worked. If I replaced the hard drive with another SATA would that solve the problem? I have a 1tb that I am waiting to install because i think my computer might be frying hard drives.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi need this addon for excel which is regression software or something for excel. I cannot find this addon for the mac version and i do not want to use a stupid pc for excel. Any addon that is like regression? i need it for school.
i believe its called rinlex cause in my syllabus it says
In addition to Microsoft Excel an Excel add in called Rinlex is available on the web page and also in the computer lab.
Anyone know where I can find a complete list of known outstanding issues / faults / 'features' of a Mac Pro / iMac?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any thing available that will allow me to print to a PDF file?
View 24 Replies View Relatedhave any macbook air owners here found that 2GB ram is inadequate for their needs?I'm thinking it should be fine for me now, but i'm just worried say 2 years down the road if the 2GB ram will be enough, since ram is not upgradeable on the MBA.
i know the MBA is the machine I want, but i'm afraid of spending 2500 on a notebook which isn't very futureproof.
I'm looking for a planner application that's fairly easy to use and has a lot of features.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wondering what SSD's that would work with a 2.4 GHz, last generation blackbook.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm new to the forums and to macs. I'm having serious video card issues and everything I've read on the subject suggests that the card has heat sink issues and that a new card is required. I'm out of warranty and was just wondering if I had to go through the apple site to purchase a new card or could I just figure out what models are compatible with my mac and purchase one from a retailer or ebay?
The card I'm using now is ATI Radeon X1900 XT and is PCIe bus. I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.11 and I have a mac pro that I purchased in 2007.
If there's any additional information I need to post just let me know.
does anyone know of any browsers for mac os 9? and where i can download them, does MAc os 9 have a built in web browser?
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