xtraa Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 //edit This thread is from October 2005!!! So no actual information in here!!! <snip> Hi, finally made it running fast and stabile My setup: - Athlon Venice - MSI K8N NEO4 chipset Nforce4 Sound AC97 (ALC850) - PCIe GF6600 GT resolution 1280x1024 - Burning via LG GSA 4160b (fully supported and accepted by the system) //^nope stop it, correcting , not fully accepted. Video-DVDs does NOT work. !! Data is fine. What I needed to do: Sound needed kext tweak to work graphic needed Bootoption 1280x1042x32 without the mhz graphic card displayed as geForce 6600gt after kext fix bootup with osx86 option to ensure proper shutdown and restart Now I have a dual boot Disk1 with XP on Disk1 Part1, and OSX on Disk2 Part1. Both via XP Bootmanager and chain0 workaround. Only thing missing now 4me is full 3d acceleation and dual monitor support (lol) Well, actually I am happy with what I have. Good luck to all of you, too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudar Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Congratulations! What does it say in System Profiler about QE and CI? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-22131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted October 14, 2005 Author Share Posted October 14, 2005 Congratulations! What does it say in System Profiler about QE and CI? Thanks I am just about to see what happens, when I'm enabling Quartz. by now, both (CI and QE) are not supported. Well let's see, will be back in 30 minutes (If not, call the police :lol) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-22133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudar Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Well let's see, will be back in 30 minutes (If not, call the police :lol) I keep my fingers crossed for you, buddy! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-22134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted October 14, 2005 Author Share Posted October 14, 2005 I keep my fingers crossed for you, buddy! hey Sudar, this must have been worked a bit Ok, first the bad news: No Quartz. (Well I expected that, but never give up hoping ) The good news is, now that I banned the AppleIntel830.kext to my Desktop, I can notice a performance plus of 20%. When I start the Flurry screensaver, it still runs sluggish, but in the preview Window it is smooth, and all Apps are floating out very very fast and smooth with the genie effect. I also installed Office, StuffIt Deluxe and CocktailTE. Starting Word takes exactly 7 Seconds. I think the Graphic seems to be faster, because removing the .kext file seems to speed up the system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-22137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Did you also modify the kext to gain DMA on your disks? You can increase performance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-22198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted October 15, 2005 Author Share Posted October 15, 2005 Did you also modify the kext to gain DMA on your disks? You can increase performance. @macgirl: Thanks for the hint! No i didnt. Will immediate do a search on this By now, I am still totally flashed by what is going on... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-22360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumusPumus Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 I have a Geforce 6400 Go, wanted to change the resolution to 1280x800. I tried to edit ...boot.plist but it won't work. I added <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>8</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x800x32</string> </dict> </plist> Is this wrong? What have you fixed in kext to recognize it as a geforce 6600? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-25225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirkoneill Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 xtraa - I have the same mother board as you, did you manage to get networking working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-25232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted October 30, 2005 Author Share Posted October 30, 2005 xtraa - I have the same mother board as you, did you manage to get networking working? No, unfortunately, the onboard lan is not supported now. I use my old realtek card wich works pretty fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-25252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
witzer Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 i have a venice and 6600GT pci-x. typing graphics mode to 1280x1024 doesnt change anything. i followed ur method. in system preferences > display, the resolution only showing 1024x768. any hints? i'm using LCD anyway but i hope it's not related. i'm also not getting any pics displayed in my Preview. how'd u get Preview to run ok? i've already checked the "open with rosetta". my Preview can't display pix, but it can display PDF. DVD wise, i use VLC to watch movies. it worked quite well. my ethernet didn't work either. then i used my old D-Link (8139 card) for LAN. it worked great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-28808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted November 22, 2005 Author Share Posted November 22, 2005 i have a venice and 6600GT pci-x. typing graphics mode to 1280x1024 doesnt change anything. i followed ur method. in system preferences > display, the resolution only showing 1024x768. any hints?i'm using LCD anyway but i hope it's not related. i'm also not getting any pics displayed in my Preview. how'd u get Preview to run ok? i've already checked the "open with rosetta". my Preview can't display pix, but it can display PDF. DVD wise, i use VLC to watch movies. it worked quite well. my ethernet didn't work either. then i used my old D-Link (8139 card) for LAN. it worked great. Hi, to change the display mode i used the command (or lets say program) "vi" in the terminal and then add the line to the com.apple.boot.plist in your ~/library/Preferences/systemConfiguration/ Folder. Set <key>Graphics Mode</key> and <string>1280x1024x32</string> in the next line. This must really work To edit in "vi" type shift followed by pressing the "a" key. After editing hit esc and two times shift+z To the Preview issue - same here. I had to copy the new version from out of the installer package of the 10.4.3 DVD, to get it working. Hope that helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-29952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
witzer Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 great. i actually tried your method. but it didn't work before. but that was when i used vmware image as my installation basis. now i'm installing from release1 dvd and putting the lines on the boot.plist. thanks mate what is your xbench score? Results 57.23 System Info Xbench Version 1.2 System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025) Physical RAM 1024 MB Model ACPI Drive Type QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS30.0 CPU Test 40.81 GCD Loop 147.47 7.77 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 82.64 1.96 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 14.61 481.84 Mflop/sec Floating Point Library 93.69 16.31 Mops/sec Thread Test 91.24 Computation 64.08 1.30 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 158.35 6.81 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 97.15 System 76.41 Allocate 276.92 1.02 Malloc/sec Fill 56.67 2755.66 MB/sec Copy 55.54 1147.18 MB/sec Stream 133.35 Copy 128.08 2645.47 MB/sec Scale 127.60 2636.17 MB/sec Add 139.80 2978.03 MB/sec Triad 138.93 2971.96 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 94.52 Line 76.78 5.11 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 95.84 28.61 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 95.47 7.78 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 115.64 2.92 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 96.90 6.06 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 51.90 Spinning Squares 51.90 65.84 frames/sec User Interface Test 98.55 Elements 98.55 452.32 refresh/sec Disk Test 27.36 Sequential 67.46 Uncached Write 54.81 33.65 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 58.60 33.16 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 113.33 33.17 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 65.94 33.14 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 17.16 Uncached Write 5.26 0.56 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 53.77 17.21 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 74.29 0.53 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 91.66 17.01 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-33645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 great. i actually tried your method. but it didn't work before. but that was when i used vmware image as my installation basis. now i'm installing from release1 dvd and putting the lines on the boot.plist. Sorry mate, for the late answer, i lost this thread out of my eyes Ok, my benchmarks has been already the same than yours. But today, i noticed a good performance plus, because I removed lots of .kext files and I tweaked some kexts. That boosts me up to 70... hm this is remarkable, because the upgrade to 8F1111a normally costs about 20 points, on all systems. Now it is even faster than before. Results 70.09 System Info Xbench Version 1.2 System Version 10.4.3 (8F1111g) Physical RAM 768 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type IC35L120AVV207-0 CPU Test 58.64 GCD Loop 95.66 5.04 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 65.26 1.55 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 37.78 1.25 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 62.65 10.91 Mops/sec Thread Test 60.00 Computation 43.48 880.90 Kops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 96.74 4.16 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 66.61 System 72.25 Allocate 142.48 523.24 Kalloc/sec Fill 70.14 3410.28 MB/sec Copy 49.39 1020.11 MB/sec Stream 61.79 Copy 58.13 1200.70 MB/sec Scale 58.06 1199.49 MB/sec Add 66.01 1406.10 MB/sec Triad 65.98 1411.43 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 77.90 Line 70.70 4.71 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 84.52 25.23 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 80.79 6.59 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 86.70 2.19 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 69.95 4.38 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 92.47 Spinning Squares 92.47 117.30 frames/sec User Interface Test 98.67 Elements 98.67 452.86 refresh/sec Disk Test 57.63 Sequential 103.22 Uncached Write 106.19 65.20 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 92.28 52.21 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 110.23 32.26 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 106.05 53.30 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 39.97 Uncached Write 14.36 1.52 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 84.60 27.08 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 91.93 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 129.36 24.00 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-36242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrAk0 Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Hello, I have exactly the same MOBO that you have and I can't make my sound work, I'd apretiate that you tell me step by step what you did to get it work, thanks in advance =) -- OSX 10.4.5 MOBO MSI k8n Neo4 NVidia GeForce 6200 TC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-85362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blerofont Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Hi! i have a GeForce 6400 go with turbo cache, only editing the file mentioned.... must i can change my resolution to 1280x800? thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-244059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 blerofont, this thread is older than the rediscovery of generation x Depending on your OS X version, I would go for the Titan.kext and check if your card runs with it. This thread was started october 2005 and is about OS X version 10.4.1. Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3503-success-msi-k8n-neo4-pcie-with-geforce-6600-gt/#findComment-244371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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