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Upgrading from 9800 GT to 640 GT or 660 GTX?

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thomase said:
Btw. I have tried several times updating to 10.6.5 or above, and it always got stuck. So IF I need to update to anything beyond that, I need to re-install completely new.
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You are basically going to need to go to 10.8 or 10.8.2 if you want 3-4 monitor support with a 6XX card.
 
ggeorge said:
You are basically going to need to go to 10.8 or 10.8.2 if you want 3-4 monitor support with a 6XX card.
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I usually only need 2 monitors, but I need a faster card for rendering. But maybe more outputs could be useful.

Can someone give me a hint why the update always fails?
 
thomase said:
That was the plan. I don't have to stick to snow Leo though. What would you recommend?
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You need Mountain Lion to support these cards.
 
thomase said:
Can someone give me a hint why the update always fails?
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More information than "always fails" would be helpful. Are you using the combo updater (covers all the patches up to that point) or just the delta (just changes between this and the previous). In any case I would ask in the Snow Lepoard section of the forum rather than the buying advice.

IME, though a lot of the times you are better off just starting from scratch. It's extremely helpful also to have a second HDD/SDD you can clone your primary system disk to, that you can try installing updates or patches to with out worrying about screwing up your functioning system.

Also a lot of times it is necessary to remove or add kexts to make a patch or update work an this is much easier if you have an additional system disk you can boot off of.
 
Sorry I have been a bit unclear - I tried using the combo updater.
I have never used any extra kext files - all I did was use iboot and multibeast and for the 9800, I had to do a little trickery as described here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...b-vram-shown-having-32-mb-vram.html#post84196

After using the combo updater, all that happens is that the baby gets stuck and I have to do a whole rebuild.
I was going to buy an SSD anytime soon anyways - so maybe I'll get that first, do a fresh install on it and then try my luck with it. If it doesn't work, I can make use of it as a video drive...

But maybe someone out there knows why the combo update always leads to system failures? (I know this is going off topic I had asked the question elsewhere before without providing sufficient info - to stop derailing this thread here, if you can help with the update issue, feel free to post here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/23044-only-get-10-6-4-work.html)
 
just a side note:

IF I upgrade the rest of the system first (there's a 20% discount on gigabyte z77 mobos at the moment) would it make sense to put the 9800 GT on the new mobo and replace it later?
 
thomase said:
just a side note:

IF I upgrade the rest of the system first (there's a 20% discount on gigabyte z77 mobos at the moment) would it make sense to put the 9800 GT on the new mobo and replace it later?
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Well that depends on what exactly it is you want to solve.

A new motherboard/CPU is not going to change anything graphics card related. Though it should speed things up significantly overall.

The 9800 AFAIK should work with a new mb/cpu, even if it doesn't the HD4000 processor graphics on a 3570k or 3770k should get you by until you have the money for a new graphics card. They are significantly inferior in 3D performance to your old card though.

You will need to go to at least Lion (10.7.5 has native support, you'll need a work around for older) or I believe any version of ML, the Ivy Bridge chips aren't supported under 10.6.X older
 
That's basically why I wanted to upgrade the system. New OS X.
I think I'll try to put the core2quad in my wife's pc and later on the 9800 GT as well. It now is a pentium with an 8400. As soon as I have the money for new RAM, the old will also go into that pc.

Thanks for your help so far. It's just funny how the original plan of upgrading just the GPU turns out to be much more than that.
 
ggeorge said:
You are basically going to need to go to 10.8 or 10.8.2 if you want 3-4 monitor support with a 6XX card.
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Whoa Whoa. . . . did I miss something? I thought that a single GTX 6X0 card can only support a maximum of 2 monitors in OSX? Man, this support would be clutch if this support finally came to OSX with nVidia cards.
 
I have recently rebuilt my old H55 system with a Sparkle 9800GT.

I basically rebuilt for 10.8.2 using a GA-Z77X-UD5H board with 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 RAM , i5 3570k and my old Sparkle GeForce 9800GT

Everything works great, no problems at all with the 9800GT.

It will certainly more than adequately tide you over until you purchase a GTX660/70/80


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