[SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080/1070

[P1LGRIM]

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[floris497]

Hacking drivers from another OS is harder than writing an OpenGL gfx driver for an OSX guest virtual machine, and nobody has been able to achieve that (both because of lack of time and lack of real interest). As you noticed, Pascal drivers for Linux aren't open source, so the reverse engineering effort needed would be overwhelming.

But back to your words, "that's the end there?", I've realized I want to dump Apple completely. Apple has a new direction completely (and I mean completely) opposite to my computing and life interests. I'll try to get running in Linux all the software I need, and I hope to be able to move in a few months timeframe.

I guess we have to wait for either apple or Nvidia to give us drivers..

There is no need to dump apple as long as it works good for you.. What is the point of dumping what you have and what you like working with only because of the business model of the company you are stealing the OS from.. (Maybe a bit short fetched but that's how I'm thinking about it..) I'm not quite sure what you are referring to exactly but it's kinda off topic.

 

[MadMac1969]

I guess we have to wait for either apple or Nvidia to give us drivers..

There is no need to dump apple as long as it works good for you.. What is the point of dumping what you have and what you like working with only because of the business model of the company you are stealing the OS from.. (Maybe a bit short fetched but that's how I'm thinking about it..) I'm not quite sure what you are referring to exactly but it's kinda off topic.

I've been an Apple user since 1994 and I don't think of myself stealing their OS. As a matter of fact Apple does not offer an expandable desktop as they used to in the (distant) past, and this was a very poor choice in my opinion. Therefore I make my own Mac and keep using the OS I've been using every day since its launch.

Dumping an entire OS because of 2-3 months delay on some drivers, especially when there are VERY FAST supported GPUs such as the 980Ti is, in my opinion, an act of people without logical judgement, and they should deal with this with the help of their doctors.

I agree with you, however, on the fact that we just have to take what is on the table without whining. Besides, we are talking about very powerful stuff, and in the worst case scenario of Apple not using Nvidia ever again, we will soon have some new generation of Radeons as powerful or more than current Nvidia. So there's really no rational reason for dumping the OS.

 

[asiga]

There is no need to dump apple as long as it works good for you.. What is the point of dumping what you have and what you like working with only because of the business model of the company you are stealing the OS from.. (Maybe a bit short fetched but that's how I'm thinking about it..) I'm not quite sure what you are referring to exactly but it's kinda off topic.

Yes, that would be off-topic. But, in a few words, Apple in recent years has started to remove stuff for which I chose OS X, while adding stuff I strongly dislike (mainly in privacy/freedom-sensitive areas). They not only won't correct this move, but are willing to make it stronger in the short-term future, so I'll have to leave at some point, and better prepare the path now, setting up a Linux environment as Mac-friendly as possible, with no time constraints, than on a hurry later.

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I've been an Apple user since 1994 and I don't think of myself stealing their OS. As a matter of fact Apple does not offer an expandable desktop as they used to in the (distant) past, and this was a very poor choice in my opinion. Therefore I make my own Mac and keep using the OS I've been using every day since its launch.

I'm on a similar boat. The very same fact that forced me to buy a PC box (after more than a decade without buying one) just because Apple didn't have a Mac with the components I needed, it's yet another symptom that Apple and I have taken divergent paths.

But all of this is a big off-topic.

 

[Stork]

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But all of this is a big off-topic.

Yes, it is.

 

[floris497]

I've been an Apple user since 1994 and I don't think of myself stealing their OS. As a matter of fact Apple does not offer an expandable desktop as they used to in the (distant) past, and this was a very poor choice in my opinion. Therefore I make my own Mac and keep using the OS I've been using every day since its launch.

That's the same for me, I probably started using OS 9 just about at the end.. That's when I was first allowed to use a computer at home to play some games. Since we always had Mac due to my dad's work I never had anything else.

The lack of support for MacPro users is also there.. as there is no GPU available for them. there are 3th parties that provide Flashed GPUs with EFI but sadly there is no 1080 Support for those users as well.. since the 2012 MacPro is still a beast machine that can outrun some (if not all) of the 2013 models.. But sadly apple does not care to much about Nvidia.. or they signed with AMD to not care about Nvidia..

Is there any topic here where we would be able to continue this conversation..? because it think it's interesting..

Also a big plus with Nvidia cards is the power consumption. it's far better for the 10 series cards.. compared to 900 series.

I guess it's back to waiting again, there is little else we can do.

 

[Bagklapper]

At this point, I'm just going to get a full size motherboard with multi-GPU support and install a supported card in there just for OS X and disable it in Windows. There's no way I'm getting rid of the 1080 just for OS X. The card is just too awesome.

I have been doing the same thing for a few months now. Works perfectly! Would you mind telling me how to switch of te second card in windows? To save energy etc..

 

[MadMac1969]

I have been doing the same thing for a few months now. Works perfectly! Would you mind telling me how to switch of te second card in windows? To save energy etc..

You will save energy with the secondary card in idle anyway... Not as nice as having it switched off completely, but almost. You just have to disable it from Device Manager, and keep both cards connected to the monitor, maybe with a switch.

I don't really love this type of solution, but if it rocks your boat, go ahead

 

[XQC]

But back to your words, "that's the end there?", I've realized I want to dump Apple completely. Apple has a new direction completely (and I mean completely) opposite to my computing and life interests. I'll try to get running in Linux all the software I need, and I hope to be able to move in a few months timeframe.

I could see your argument, if Apple would kill the desktop completely. While that may be true with the Mac Pro, I don't see Apple killing the iMac. As long as the iMac exists, and I think it will for at least 5 years, we can always work with desktop hackintoshs.

There might be times like now where we are stuck with hardware from last generation but to be honest it's a first world problem. My choice between a last-gen desktop with MacOS or cutting edge hardware with Windows will always be the same.

 

[mohamed17]

so there is still no support for the pascal drivers, right?