Gt 730 working oob?

Hey guys I know the gt 740 is supported however I have not seen anyone using a gtx 730.. Is it fully compatible as well?

retsckor said:

Hey guys I know the gt 740 is supported however I have not seen anyone using a gtx 730.. Is it fully compatible as well?

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No idea. For the small amt. of extra money that the 740 costs why even bother getting a 730 ?

retsckor said:

Hey guys I know the gt 740 is supported however I have not seen anyone using a gtx 730.. Is it fully compatible as well?

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I'd like to know this as well. There are a few fanless 730's out that would be ideal in a HTPC.

User refusnikov recently posted about using a GT730 (in a HP dc7900).

refusnikov said:

I took a flyer on the GT730. It's a new card so there is no info on using it in a hackintosh. It ranks pretty high on Tom's Hardware in the hiearchy of Nvidia gpus for a budget card. Make sure you get the gddr5 version. The other two versions are dogs.

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I am running two 1920x1080 monitors. One off the DVI port and one off the HDMI port.

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refusnikov said:

I can report that the new gt 730 card works perfectly OOB in 10.9.4.

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Good Luck

I got a EVGA GT730 2GD5 64bit, but fail to boot with 10.9.5
It will hang before the login window prompt.

Here is the last error message with -v -f GraphicsEnabler=No

GeForceSensors (pci1): [Fatal] unknown Kepler chipset 0x106
GeForceSensors (pci1): [Fatal] unknown chipset 0xb06070b1

any idea?

[Update 1]

GT 730 is a GK208 Kepler chipset, I think it is the same with GT 630 v2.
After I install the NVIDIA web driver for Mavericks 10.9.5 and boot with "nvda_drv=1"
, it works now...

But I still wondering why it doesn't work OOB...Q_Q....

[Update 2]
It seems like even with the latest Nvidia web driver for 10.9.5 still not full-functioning.
In About this Mac > More Info GT 730 kepler can be identified.
But seems like the OpenCL not working, so when double click on photo to preview, preview application will crash. When replying mail with Outlook, Outlook will crash, too.

So, at this moment, I suggest not to buy any GT 730 64bit 28nm GK208 kepler graphics......

I also have another ASUS gt610-sl-2gd3-l , working perfectly without Nvidia web driver and GraphicsEnabler=No...

[Update 3]
I have found out a way to avoid preview / LuxMark / Outlook crash with GT 730 GK208 kepler
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/122777-fix-opencl-crash-gk110b-based-cards-23.html

What this fix done is disable OpenCL function...even though it's not a perfect solution,
but at least it avoids application crash.
After apply this patch, LuxMark will not crash, but it can't detect any OpenCL hardware anymore.

Hope in someday the GK208 OpenCL crash can be solved by new driver update.

retsckor said:

Hey guys I know the gt 740 is supported however I have not seen anyone using a gtx 730.. Is it fully compatible as well?

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I installed 10.9.5 and it's working pretty well, the only problem I'm facing with the GT730 is some fast black screen flash when using maps or launchpad, the last one will close itself few times then is running well. Any suggestion?

After upgrade to 10.10 and using the latest nvidia web driver, my EVGA GT730 is working great.
Both OpenCL and OpenGL are working. No more patching required.

Mark66 said:

I installed 10.9.5 and it's working pretty well, the only problem I'm facing with the GT730 is some fast black screen flash when using maps or launchpad, the last one will close itself few times then is running well. Any suggestion?

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Thanks for the info, do you think is it possible that the GT730 will work without any graphic problem with 10.9.5 ?

After upgrading to 10.10 still the same problem with the GT730. No changes and no audio with a GA H61M-USB3H. Upgraded to GT740 and now all is OK

Hi everyone, I would kindly request your input and insight on a very similar problem I am facing.

Been running a mobo with Gigabyte P55M-UD4 board and Gainward 9500 GT [10de:0640] for a long time without issues, updated to 10.9.5 and everything is still perfect. Using Chimera then Chameleon and only GraphicsEnabler=Yes with minor DSDT tweaking for the system in vanilla.

Decided to upgrade the graphics to an (equally) silent/passively-cooled card PNY GeForce GT 730 (NV106) [10de:1287] so thought it was a simple card-swapping thing. However, for the life of me, I tried these past 2 days every combination possible, I cannot get to desktop. Safe mode, always verbose, GraphicsEnabler=No or nvda_drv=1... with UseKextCache=No always but nothing happens.

It stops at the same position on screen and doesn't switch to desktop. Last entry is either the Ethernet being up, or "VW Swap Subsystem is ON" i.e. the last entry before kickstarting the UI.

While in -v verbose boot, in some cases I see "NVDAStartup Official" and another like "NVDAxx100xxxx" which I didn't write down (Console has no record of it) and no errors about not detecting the card. The latter is simlar to "NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered" that I see with older card.

Having used previously created KextCache, I got the same error:

GeForceSensors (pci1): [Fatal] unknown Kepler chipset 0x106
GeForceSensors (pci1): [Fatal] unknown chipset 0xb06070b1

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for this Kepler GK208 chipset, which was caused by that FakeSMC.kext plugin that I removed, hoping that it was blocking boot. Still nothing.

Anyone has managed to work and stabilize the use of this GT730 card? I got it because it was 4x more powerful than my old 9500 GT as a last possible upgrade to this older system.

Thank you in advance for any effort to assist me.