Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

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CUDA is something that Nvidia has had around, PhysX as well, and Adobe teamed up with Nvidia with CS4 for Windows (64-bit app, at least in part) already off loading work.
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  • Does NVidia GeForce 8800GT have a heat problem?

    I have an older heavy-duty Mac Pro running with 8-core Intel 3.2Ghz Xeon processors and 18GBytes RAM, using an NVidia GeForce 8800GT display controller driving a 30' Apple Cinema display. After the Mac Pro has been on for half a day the white semitranslucent bars start to appear and gradually the screen goes to nearly all white if I leave it on long enough. In about an hour after I turn it off, the display is fine.
    What component is the likely cause of this behavior? I do not hear any fan noise. Should I?
    I have seen other reports of heat problems with temperatures and fan speeds mentioned. How do I find this out for the Mac Pro? MacOS verion is 10.6.3.

    Less than 80ºC (load) is desired, but up to 85ºC may be seen. A good cooler would keep the processor down in the mid 60's to mid 70's under load.
    Prolonged temps at and above the mid 90's will reduce component life.
    Certainly temps over 100ºC would be terminal in the long run.
    One would hope to see the card run between 50ºC at idle and no higher than the mid 80's under load.
    Lower load temps (mid 70's) are better.......
    The 8800 GT is getting old. Any card approaching or exceeding 5 years of use should have the thermal compound replaced.
    All fan equipped graphics cards need to be kept clean and dust free. A dust clogged heat exchanger is almost as bad as no cooler at all.

  • Duel Monitor Calibration with the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT

    I have ordered a Mac Pro with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT and would like to know whether it supports dual LUT's? I have also ordered two 30" ACDs and would like them both calibrated for photo editing work in Aperture.
    Looked at the NVIDIA site but couldn't see the answer.
    Many thanks...

    In short, no. The only way to get a LUT for each monitor is for each to have its own GPU. Having said that, I have the Radeon 1900XT driving 2-21" LCDs and have managed to get them really darn close with a good calibrator. If it's really important for you, buy a second card.
    This is from the Nvidia knowledge base and the answer is the same for Macs.
    +"Windows XP detects NVIDIA GPUs as a single processor even if the GPU supports dual monitors. This prevents the operating system from natively allowing two separate ICC profiles from being used on a single graphics card. This is not a problem if a user is running dual monitors and each monitor is running on a separate GPU.+
    +Microsoft has provided a utility for users with two monitors running off of a single GPU who wish to calibrate both monitors. You may download this utility from the following URL:+
    +http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/colorcontro l.mspx+

  • Continue question---NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT

    The EFI ROM doesn't support yours. i know, apple can update Mac pro 2.66MHZ EFI ROM can support GeForce 8800GT display card?? i am very like this card, if can't use this model is bad taste. why my computer can boot PC is work?
    Thx!!!

    In a previous statement well noted Mr Steve Jobs did indeed say that they are working on such a graphic card.
    Im amazed that it takes so long, Im very weiry of Apple, strange that Apple are so quite about it.
    No one on this forum from Apple has any idea about the progress, and for that reason, we have to think that Steve Jobs may not be able to deliver a Mac Pro 1 8800gt card.
    That would really annoy thousands of people, especially when these Pro's are meant to expandable.

  • Nvidia GeForce 8800GT- with CHOKE?

    My graphics card bit the dust
    And Apple Care asked me if I wanted the replacement to be "with choke". They swore up and down that there is "no performance difference" or "performance loss"… but I can't find much information about this feature online.
    Any ideas? Opinions? Bad jokes?

    Hello SG2020,
    I would take a look at this article named Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) and Mac Pro (all models): Graphics card compatibility between models found here http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2848
    Graphics cards for Mac Pro (Early 2008)
    ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
    NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (part number 630-9191 or 630-9897)
    NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
    ATI Radeon HD 4870, offered as an upgrade kit
    Note: The Radeon HD 4870 card requires Mac OS X v10.5.7 or later for use with the Mac Pro (Early 2008).
    All the best,
    Sterling

  • NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800GT in Mac Pro 08 machine

    I recently posted a question about my Mac Pro's kernel panic issue on startup. After a call with AppleCare they determined it was a hardware issue. Since I no longer have AppleCare I took it to a local shop that is certified to work on Macs.
    Their conclusion was that the video card went bad.
    Now I know there is a recall/issue out on Macbook Pros with NVIDIA cards... however, it seems like there was never anything posted with Mac Pros. Obviously this being 3 years since I bought the machine warranties won't cover it. I've used my machine for art/design, so I was a little surprised when I wake up and I have no visual.
    Is there a known issue or any coverage for this hardware defect?
    I wanted to check her on the forums as none of my tech friends have worked on Macs, and the video cards for Macs are way more than the ones for PCs. As a last attempt I plan to bake the card in the oven, which a surprising number of users have had to do (all having their card for roughly the same time period and they just stop working).
    Was 2008 just a bad year for NVIDIA?
    Just seems odd that there is a known fix for this video card that multiple people have had to resort to, but there is no mention of NVIDIA acknowleding the issue. (Or maybe there is and I haven't stumbled across it on the web).
    Any info is highly and greatly appreciated, thanks guys.

    I've wondered the same thing myself about the issues with the nVidia chips from the '08 machines. I have a MacPro 3,1 that I got in late March '08 with the 8800GT. I had AppleCare and had several issues with my MacPro during those three years. The first problem I had was I started to get graphics corruption on the boot screen and regular kernal panics. Apple replaced the graphics card and everything seemed to be ok after that for a while. Then something happened where the computer would not power up at all. No lights, no fans, just completely dead. I suspected it was just a dead PSU however after seeing the repair reciept I was really supprised at what they needed to replace. Apple needed to replace both CPU's, the Memory, Logic Board, PSU, & Graphics Card. So it was esentially a completely new machine in an old case.
    Now I'm having the same issue as before with the 8800GT having graphics corruption. I can't boot into OSX at all with out it crashing the system. I also get a BSOD when trying to load into Windows 7 via bootcamp. I remember Apple releasing an update to the 8800GT's EFI shortly after I got the MacPro when all the hoopla surrounding the mobile chips what going on. This patch seemed to slightly underclock (maybe undervolting) the GPU and increased the fan profile.
    As it stands now I guess I'm just going to have to look for a replacement card. I think I'm going to switch to ATI/AMD at this point. I found the Sapphire makes a newer Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition, has a bit of a price premium for a year old card but it's definitely better than spending alsmost the same ammount on the Radeon HS 5870.

  • Upgraded nVidia GeForce 8800GTS Driver--Premiere Runs Slow Now

    For four years, I was running the same nVidia driver and Premiere and other apps ran fine.
    Recently though, a project I'm working on for a client required me to add some new fonts to my workstations. Adding these fonts, or any fonts at all, would work fine until the next reboot, at which point Windows XP would just BSOD with a fault in win32k.sys. A partition restore was necessary to bring back useful system.
    After some research, it was suggested that I update the video driver. I did this, installing the current 285.58 version after uninstalling the old version, rebooting, then doing a clean installation. That solved the font problem--I can install fonts and reboot and the system comes up fine. But there's a new problem: GUI acceleration is disabled in Adobe and Quark applications.. The GUI takes several seconds to paint the screen now, and I cannot play video in Premiere anymore without severe sluggishness and dropping of most of the frames. Even QuarkXpress 8 is unusable, taking 6 seconds to paint just the rulers around a page! Any time I move something, the system refuses to accept input and the mouse pointer freezes and stutters for several seconds until the screen is done repainting.
    I haven't seen these sort of problems since 1990, when I had my Diamond Speedstar VGA card on ISA 8-bit bus.
    Does anyone know of a fix for this problem, or what is the most recent Adobe approved nVidia 8800 driver version? I can't work like this. But I can't install the fonts my client needs when the old driver is installed because of the BSOD after rebooting.

    Mark,
    Though I have personally not had issues with new drivers, I always try to keep a few nVidia drivers tucked away, just in case. However, and from time to time, others have hit upon "bad" drivers, and either a roll-back, or patience, until a new "good" driver is released, has helped them.
    I also do not update my nVidia drivers all that often, and usually only when I begin experiencing a problem.
    Good luck, and that BSOD is scary. While most BSOD's are hardware related, a system driver certainly CAN cause them too. On my workstation, all that I can recall HAVE been triggered by drivers, and most of those for something like a Maxtor external. I do not use their "one-button backup" function, but the drivers for that do get installed, and sometimes act up. I suppose that was once a good idea, but has bitten me a few times in the past.
    Good luck, and wish that I had something that would help you. Please report how things go.
    Hunt

  • Will MSI NVidia GeForce 8800GT OC work with my mobo

    hi could anyone please tell me if this card will work with my motherboard cos i have read a lot of reviews that say only work with 3 out of 5 mobo , i have the gigabyte s series ga-m57sli-s4 mobo it has 2 x pcie x16 . if it is possible could you get back to me today because i ordered them last night before reading the review . Thanks . Daniel

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  • Running ATI Radeon x1900 XT along with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Possible?

    Can I run the ATI Radeon x1900 XT along with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT together in my mac pro?

    The X1900 would have to go in double wide slot, you would have to run one or both at 8x.
    I think something like ATI 2600 might make more sense. The 8800GT is listed as discontinued (have a thread or two about it being EOL). So unless you have the 8800GT may not be an option anyway.
    The 4870 + 2600 combo would be best I can think of for us with 1st gen now.
    This assumes you simply need to drive 3 monitors. And don't want to wait and see if the Nvidia eVGA GTX 285 (doubtful) will support 1st gen EFI32's.

  • Anyone experience flashing a NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800ULTRA (PC-version) for Mac Pro 3.1 ...?

    I have a NVIDIA GeForce 8800ULTRA (that I bought new, a few years ago, for my PC) that I would like to use (if possible) for my Mac Pro 3.1
    I know... There are 8800GT's for the Mac Pro 1.1 & 2.1 ...
    But the 8800ULTRA was the flagship, so I would like to use it for my Mac Pro, if possible.
    Anyone experience in flashing video cards...?

    As the User Tip indicates, there are tradeoffs. It will not work "just like a genuine Mac" card:
    If you are Meet ALL of these:
    • running 10.8.3 or later AND
    • don't care about "no boot screens" etc AND
    • can re-wire or otherwise "work out" the power cabling, THEN:
    You can use many more cards, even most "PC-only cards".

  • What to upgrade to from Nvidia Geforce 8600

    I have a Gateway FX 530S
    Intel core 2 quad CPU Q 6600 @ 2.40 GHz  2.30 GHz
    memory RAM  4.GB
    32-bit operating system
    I play online games alot....  World of Warcraft
    Current Graphic card: Nvidia Geforce 8600 gt
    1024 x 768 monitor
    windows Vista Home
    I want to know the best to upgrade to that  my system can handle in the price range  up to 160.00

    I disagree - I have a Q6600 and the GTX460 provided a significant improvement in visual quality (the ability to crank texture resolution and FSAA up in WoW) on a Q6600.
    However only low-end GTX460s fall within the OP's price range.  However, there are a number of cards that fall between the 8600 and the GTX460 in performance that would work for the OP.)
    I'm not sure what the current "$100 workhorse" video card is these days.  First it was the 8800GT, then it was the GT240, dunno what now.
    The GTS450 seems to be in a fairly good price/performance sweet spot that should perform significantly better than the 8600GT.
    *disclaimer* I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of Best Buy, Geek Squad, nor of any of their affiliate, parent, or subsidiary companies.

  • Lock-ups/freezes - Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT

    Hi all, I have been the owner of a MacBook Pro since August or so. My problem is that when working with my MacBook Pro, occasionally the display freezes up. Sometimes it recovers, sometimes the machine refuse to recover. If I listen to iTunes, I hear the music playing on in the background, which indicates that this is an issue with the graphics chip, and not the computer in general.
    I have searched the Internet, and it seems I am not the only one who has issues with the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT. According to slashdot.org, Apple acknowledges that this may be an issue (http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/08/10/11/1518246.shtml).
    Have anyone else experienced these kinds of issues, and if you did, how did you solve them?

    Hello! I am feeling a little more secure now that there have been quite a few posts about the poor preformance of the nVidia cards in the SR Macbook Pros, its comforting to know this isn't an isolated issue. I've gone as far as contacting Apple to let them know of the poor preformance. They've were, as usual, very nice and as helpful as they are allowed to be. Currently, I have a replacment on the way apparently, my original was deemd DOA I believe. However, it seems at the time all we can do is report our issues to Apple. My main concern is the legnth of time these machines have been out, and the amount of units sold to unknowing customers who are being sold on what Apple is marketing as a strong feature of the machines: the graphics card. When in reality, the card is extraordinary, the preformance in OSX is extremely poor. It is up to us as consumers to let Apple know how aggrivated we are.
    Please, take the time and send your responses and feelings to Apple. You can do that here:
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html

  • MSI nVidia GeForce 4200 TI driver problem

    Hi.. I really need your help guys..
    First of all, I have Windows XP Pro.
    Okay, I have this MSI nVidia GeForce 4200 TI card, and wanted to change drivers.
    I had 50.xx, and wanted to change back to 40.xx, because it works better with Counter-Strike.
    So, I went into Device Manager and went into the video card properties -> driver.
    I pressed the 'Uninstall driver', because you need to uninstall the newer driver if you want to install an older driver.
    Then my computer restarted, and when it was booting, a blue screen or something came up, with text about my computer was deleting and scanning some files(?).
    I don't know what it was uninstalling excatly, but when I got into Windows I had to use a 'VGA driver' or something..
    I tried to install the 40.xx driver, double clicked the Setup.exe but when it was begining to install this error came up: 'An error occured while launching the setup. (0x80040702)'.
    I don't know what it means, but I can't install any drivers for nVidia?!
    I tried the Device manager, and I can't update the 'VGA' ..
    It's like my computer isn't recognizing the card or something.. I've tried 'Add new hardware' and everything.
    Please help me!
    Thanks in advance.
    P.S. My PC specs:
    Intel Pentium4 2.0GHz
    Some IBM mainboard
    512DDR
    GeForce 4200 TI
    Windows XP Pro

    Generally for nVidia drivers for the VGA, is what I explained above by going to Add Remove programs in control panel and look for the entry for nVidia display drivers.
    Since you are asking me this, I fear you may not be at the experience level required to do this as it can be somewhat of a nightmare if all the drivers are not removed completely. This is what you just experienced.
    Look at the top of this forum and you will se an Important thread called driver cleaner, by Bonz and then the one above it by me. Go to the DriverHeaven Website and download the DC utility but make sure you read EVERYTHING and understand it before you proceed. If you are confused or not comfortable, then I suggest finding someone that is experienced enough to do it for you.
    It should be pretty straightforward.
    Good luck

  • HT203254 Can you find a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processors

    Where Can you find a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processors. I need one for my MacBook Pro 15" A1260.

    the GPU is soldered on the logic board. you would need to buy a new logic board.

  • Macbook Pro 4,1 - NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

    So, over the last 2 years, I very rarely used my Mac.  I had my work laptop, iphone and iPad.  In the last few weeks I started using the laptop
    for running the INSANITY workout videos(MP4) during my workout.  Sunday, June 30, during my early morning workout, the laptop screen
    scrambles like a checkerboard and froze.  I could still hear the audio, but the video was gone.  A minute later, the laptop shutdown and reboot with message
    "Your computer restarted becasuse of a problem. Press a key or wait a few seconds to continue starting up." (displayed in 6 languages)
    After a few reboots the sytem would come back up, but only for about 5 minutes, then same message.
    Today, Tuesday, I finally found the discs my system shipped with (10.5x),  so I was able to run Apple Hardware Test
    (currently running Mountain Lion/ software Download)
    I checked box for extended testing.  Total test time 1 hour 54 mins 52 secs,
    Test Results
    Alert: Apple Hardware Test has detected an error
    4VDC/1/40000003: VideoController
    I google 4VDC and find
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377
    "The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor repair extension program ended on December 7, 2012. This program provided extended repair coverage for a period of four years from the date of purchase, and as of Dec 7th 2012, it is unlikely products qualify for this extended repair coverage."
    Oops, missed the free repair by 6 months, paperweight :-)
    Thanks for reading, happy 4th of July all.

    Ok, Kaz & Grant, took your advice and went to local apple store.  The tech ran their video checker, looked like a small black external hdd labled GPT that he plugged in.  After the video fail, he said it "could" be the video card or the logic board.  He was familiar with the repair program but dismissed it because he said it had expired for me in September 2012.
    Issue: Garbled video on screen
    Steps to Reproduce: Ran Graphics Process Test, failed.
    Proposed Resolution: Depot for new logic board
    Cosmetic Condition: Sticker on clamshell
    Estimated Turn Around Time: We'll call you in 3 - 5 days
    Mac OS Version: 10.8.4
    Hard Drive Size: 200GB
    Memory Size: 4GB
    iLife Version: 09 
    Repair Estimate
    Item Number
    Description
    Price
    Amount Due
    S1580LL/A
    Flat Rate Repair Charge, PBG4/MBP15"
    $ 210.00
    $ 210.00
    S1586LL/A
    Labor Charge, PBG4/MBP15"
    $ 100.00
    $ 100.00
    Total (Tax not included)
    $ 310.00
    $ 310.00
    FYI, this is the sticker on clamshell

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