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The 660 Ti Thread: Questions and Answers Here!

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ElKanyeEast said:
Yea it's hit and miss right now. I would recommend you read this thread http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-bu...d5h-i7-3770k-gigabyte-geforce-gtx-660-ti.html because he has his 660 Ti up and running perfectly like thelostswede. I honestly can't remember, but I remember there being something about not letting your energy preferences set it or something like that.
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Nothing much said in that thread. slugnet has no issues, other people do have sleep issues. About the only bit of advice is to buy the evga 660ti as its closest to reference. So maybe the msi I got was a poor choice, oh well :)


I have set the energy prefs to 'never' sleep the computer, but I'm not entirely sure it's even just automated sleep that is the issue. Need to get my secondary ML install up to date and do some testing I suppose. So little time...
 
nfsgamer said:
Did anyone of you successfully connect an Apple Cinema Display to a GTX 660 ti using this or another adapter?
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H1824ZM/A/Moshi_Mini_DisplayPort_to_HDMI_Adapter

I really appreciate it when someone can confirm this.

Thanks in advance
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I have a dual monitor setup with a 23" Cinema display on one DVI port, and 23" ASUS on the other. Works lovely. You don't need an adapter as the 660ti has 2xDVI.

One trick you will find is that the Cinema display will not display the boot screen resolution properly, so (a) your BIOS splash screen on startup may be distorted or have patches of static (harmless), and (b) you will not be able to edit BIOS settings, as the BIOS screen will be unreadable (a massive pain if you only have one monitor :banghead:).

Make sure you add the following to org.chameleon.boot.plist to at least get the Chameleon screen displaying properly.

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1900x1200x32</string>

(Capitalisation and spaces are crucial, and this does not affect the boot screen / BIOS issue).
 
@thelostswede Galaxy's 660 Ti looks interesting card! What is the product number on the box? I was asking yesterday and found a seller how said he will get some of these cards soon. But is it possible to have future compatibility issues because of using non-reference card?

BTW did you know that this card has built in dust removal technology, I just though you may be happy to know that ;)
http://youtu.be/j8hFL99pnN8
 
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grafixidea said:
@thelostswede Galaxy's 660 Ti looks interesting card! What is the product number on the box? I was asking yesterday and found a seller how said he will get some of these cards soon. But is it possible to have future compatibility issues because of using non-reference card?

BTW did you know that this card has built in dust removal technology, I just though you may be happy to know that ;)
http://youtu.be/j8hFL99pnN8
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I don't see why it should have any problems in the future if it doesn't have any now. I have no idea about the product number, but it's the card I linked to, not one of their other two models.
 
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3william56 said:
For folks who want to test the compatibility of their rig for Final Cut Pro X without spending the cash, it appears that Pixelmator suffers a similar issue: 5-10 second hangs, then recovers
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What do you do to trigger that, can you suggest a specific filter to try etc?


edit: ah yes, going into full screen for one, causes a large pause, running filters in full screen causes pauses, and eventually got a freeze. sigh. lots of nvda channel exception errors in system.log as per usual.
 
grafixidea said:
This thread started promising, then freezes and issue stated to show up!

This EVGA GTX 660 ti available in my country (the only 660 ti available) ...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130809&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=4902415&SID=

I don't use FCPX, just Photoshop/Illustrator CS5 for web design work, but I don't want the headache of not 100% compatible card as my curent HD5770 (Batmobile) works OOB and more than enough in my work and OS X, I just need the more power of GTX 6xx for windows side gaming.
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When you say "compatible" do you mean hackintosh compatible or Photoshop GPU acceleration compatible? Obviously a 670 would be preferable from a hackintosh compatibility standpoint currently. However, that might change with the next drivers release (probably sometime in October when the Quadro K5000 is released), but it might not. You just don't know until it happens and 10.8.2 just got released, so that might change things as well.

grafixidea said:
So should I get this EVGA or save extra money over the next 3 or 4 months to get Gigabyte GTX 670 OC like this ...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=4902415&SID=

I don't really need this extra power but want to get more stable and compatible parts.

And BTW the GTX 670 is PCI-e x16 3.0, and I'm running on a bit old mobo (P55) which has a PCI-e x16 2.0, does this make any issues? And should my OCZ 600w PSU handle this load, right?
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Basically no cards will saturate an x16 PCIe 2.0 slot or an x8 PCIe 3.0 (equivalent bandwidth) slot. So the 2.0 vs 3.0 would only matter if you had an additional card that was going to drop you down to an x8 lane for both cards. However even in that situation, there's a relatively small penalty for that, even with PCIe 2.0 lanes.

BTW the PCIe 2.0 vs 3.0 is actually determined primarily by your CPU and not the motherboard. The slots need to meet certain minimum electrical standards, but most of the older 67 boards will support PCIe 3.0 with an Ivy Bridge CPU and a BIOS update.

Your power supply should be plenty powerful. You would only need something more if you had 2+ high end graphics cards.
 
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