mifki Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Was getting bored of vista so i decided to get my 9800gx2 working in OS X. Init-ed the 9800's within efi shell by loading option rom of 8800 card (im too lazy to write vbe initialization code), installed injector kext (with great help to target disk mode ), first got 9800 working no qe/ci bt had res change. Then mucked around some more and got qe/ci working. I used old 2600xt to load option rom as only way to do with refit. Will upload more pictures / info when i can be bothered and have more sleep. P.s: benchmarks might seem slow, but still in early stages of getting this working 9800gx2_benchmark.tiff 9800GX2_info_s.tiff 9800GX2Extensions.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f41qu3 Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Great work chrome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 9800 GTX is kinda ghey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 its why i bought the less ghey version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastExile Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 extremely nice score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 w00t! -D- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 That's awesome actually. If more video cards had this option, then you would have more of a choice when buying a video card! What brand of 9800GX2 is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted June 1, 2008 Author Share Posted June 1, 2008 Its an Inno3d card. Will do some more work with it today, time permitting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonfox13x Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 woot great news, this is possible on a hackintosh too right? if possible please include instructions for noobs like me =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubsterboo Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 OK, can someone help me make my GX2 work in my hackintosh then? I'm not having very much success. Ive been posting here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=101121 Can you go into details on what you did please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Great job! I really wish Apple would officially come out with some form of SLI/Crossfire support. It really is the only thing that makes gives the Mac Pro a disadvantage when it comes to intensive graphics work. Yes I realize the Quadro is a good card but if Dell offers the option of SLI graphics, Apple should too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludacrisvp Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 All I can say wow that card is expensive in comparison to the 8800GT that you get from Apple. Maybe when Nvidia 10800GX2 comes out this card will fall into the affordable range. Congrats on an amazing card. Now to get SLI support hacked on the Mac Pro. The 8800GT does have an SLI port on it from Apple I wonder are they planning to enable it via an EFI update after WWDC? I say this because of the similarity between the Intel Skulltrail platform (that supports SLI and Crossfire) and the Mac Pro motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 For those that want to do this on hackint0sh the only thing which applies is to use NvKush or NvInject Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubsterboo Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 For those that want to do this on hackint0sh the only thing which applies is to use NvKush or NvInject Ive tried this, also tried using graphics strings. The best i can get is a bluescreen with a stuck cursor when login window loads. Maybe theres something wrong with my kexts. Could you upload the nvidia kexts that you're using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted June 7, 2008 Author Share Posted June 7, 2008 I highly doubt it would be a problem with your kexts (hoping that you are using 10.5.3). But here is a copy of the kexts i use http://rapidshare.de/files/39642127/Kexts.zip.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubsterboo Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I highly doubt it would be a problem with your kexts (hoping that you are using 10.5.3). But here is a copy of the kexts i use http://rapidshare.de/files/39642127/Kexts.zip.html Thank You! I'm using 10.5.2 Didn't think i need the .3 update for this. Will try and report back later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted June 7, 2008 Author Share Posted June 7, 2008 busterboo, if you read any other post it would have told you that you needed at least 10.5.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubsterboo Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 busterboo, if you read any other post it would have told you that you needed at least 10.5.3. Updating now.... Edit: Still have the same problems after the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted June 7, 2008 Author Share Posted June 7, 2008 at least you have the correct kexts now. delete your extensions.mkext and reboot with NVinject.kext installed (correct permissions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonfox13x Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 this is with loading the 8800 rom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 not anymore, i have extracted drivers which load the cards own rom. So it is loading the rom on the cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casperionx Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Does the 9800 use the same core as the 9600? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubsterboo Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Does the 9800 use the same core as the 9600? No. Kiko: Could you have a look at this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...60&start=60 Maybe you've got some ideas that aqua-mac or myself could try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 All I can say wow that card is expensive in comparison to the 8800GT that you get from Apple. Maybe when Nvidia 10800GX2 comes out this card will fall into the affordable range.Congrats on an amazing card. Now to get SLI support hacked on the Mac Pro. The 8800GT does have an SLI port on it from Apple I wonder are they planning to enable it via an EFI update after WWDC? I say this because of the similarity between the Intel Skulltrail platform (that supports SLI and Crossfire) and the Mac Pro motherboard. Yep... I also think that with the Nehalem redesign (which requires a new mobo), Apple will feel compelled to re-evaluate its position on SLI and may release SLI drivers for older Mac Pros along with the new ones on the Nehalem platform. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel...?i=3326&p=3 - pics of the nehalem socket Maybe they will also decide to trash FB-DIMM and go with low latency DDR3 memory. Its doubtful that Apple will do this but the majority of Mac Pro customers do not order/install 16 gigabytes of ram into their machine and thus don't need FB-DIMM RAM. With triple channel DDR3, its more than likely that most Nehalem motherboards will support 6GB of ram which is quite a bit. Granted, some people might see the need for 16GB of RAM but most Mac Pro customers DO NOT have that much ram in their computer (I would think most people have anywhere in the range of 2-8GB). I could be totally wrong on this though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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