Power to 8800GT in a Mac Pro

[cebit]

Power to 8800GT in a Mac Pro [solved]

Hi,

I've flashed my 8800GT with the Apple 8800GT Firmware and installed it in my MacPro.

I'm looking for a mod to feed this power hog with electricity and your help/ideas would be appreciated.

There's a spare molex connector in the optical drive compartment, but it's a long way to the 6-pin adapter of the 8800GT and the way is blocked.

Ceb.

 

[cebit]

It wasn't so hard after all.

A molex extender and a molex to 6-pin power adapter did the job, along with a screwdriver and some cable management.

 

[Duxx]

Hah glad to hear it wasn't too complicated. What you using a 8800 in there anyways? Load XP or vista dual boot?

 

[cebit]

Hah glad to hear it wasn't too complicated. What you using a 8800 in there anyways? Load XP or vista dual boot?

Hi. Glad to be glad

I'm not dualbooting yet (no need actually). There's a i7 in da house with XP.

The 8800 got stuck inside the MacPro as a replacement to the original 2600 XT (blah). The fan of 2600 one day got mad and never spinned down. I tried 3d party vga coolers like Accelero S1 and Thermaltake Fanless 330 but the temps were too high to risk damage.

 

[tzitzibp]

this guy loves MacOS!

Glad you got the job done.... Hope you are OK!

 

[cebit]

this guy loves MacOS!

Glad you got the job done.... Hope you are OK!

True ! After so many years trying to make stuff work in various *nix environments (lnx, fbsd, obsd, etc...), a True BSD OS came up to the x86 platform with extremely friendly UI and tremendous work-flow for content creators (audio/video/3d/gfx).

It was love @ first sight !

Thank you for your wishes.

 

[tzitzibp]

True ! After so many years trying to make stuff work in various *nix environments (lnx, fbsd, obsd, etc...), a True BSD OS came up to the x86 platform with extremely friendly UI and tremendous work-flow for content creators (audio/video/3d/gfx).

It was love @ first sight !

Thank you for your wishes.

no problem!

btw, do you ever play games on that 8800 ?

 

[cebit]

Native Darwin (the OSX kernel) games are quite scarce. Most implementations of contemporary games involve some sort of virtualization/emulation layer. Thus, the performance is crippled to a considerable extend. In principle, stability is also (severely) affected in the worst manner.

Even if it was a perfect universe (userland for games in geek terms), I probably wouldn't indulge
My gaming days are over, since...lets say...Capcom Cabal LoL.

My toys have a league of their own: Cubase, Bias Peak, SoundForge, Sonar, Reason, Waves Plugins, UAD + Powercore Plugins, etc...

I assume each person has his personal set fun of gear, either soft, hard or both.

 

[cebit]

OT: StarCruiser

no problem!

btw, do you ever play games on that 8800 ?

OT:

BTW, once again congratulations on your achievement, building the starCruiser(*engageWarp10) case.

I'm confident enough to say, if the Borg existed you'd have become a millionaire in a snap. You'd have to betray the Federation, but that's another story.