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Frequently Asked Questions About NVIDIA PC (non-EFI) Graphics Cards

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Head's up for anyone looking - NVIDIA will have stock of the GTX 1080 FE available tomorrow. I'm sure they'll sell out quickly, but no premium charge if buying from NVIDIA directly (should be $549). Works great with MacPro5,1 (and others) if you use a dual mini 6-pin to single 8-pin power cable and NVIDIA web drivers.

Update: There will also be stock of the GTX 1060 FE available tomorrow. Should be $299.
 
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h9826790 said:
1) Safer way. Enable "Reduce transparency" in System preferences -> Accessibility -> Display. I tested this for a few days. Didn't see a single colour bug.
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thank for all your work! FYI under 17D102 and .161 with 'Reduce transparency' I am still having some artifacts using my EVGA 970 and my 4.1->5,1.
 
crazyhorse90210 said:
thank for all your work! FYI under 17D102 and .161 with 'Reduce transparency' I am still having some artifacts using my EVGA 970 and my 4.1->5,1.
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That’s for the report. Not sure if that’s the difference between Maxwell and Pascal card.

May I know if the colour bug is significantly reduced? Or more or less the same after Reduce Transparency is enabled?
 
bsbeamer said:
Head's up for anyone looking - NVIDIA will have stock of the GTX 1080 FE available tomorrow. I'm sure they'll sell out quickly, but no premium charge if buying from NVIDIA directly (should be $549). Works great with MacPro5,1 (and others) if you use a dual mini 6-pin to single 8-pin power cable and NVIDIA web drivers.
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Nice find. The 1080 is probably the best price/performance ration for a Mac Pro, so at this price it's very good.
 
bsbeamer said:
Head's up for anyone looking - NVIDIA will have stock of the GTX 1080 FE available tomorrow. I'm sure they'll sell out quickly, but no premium charge if buying from NVIDIA directly (should be $549). Works great with MacPro5,1 (and others) if you use a dual mini 6-pin to single 8-pin power cable and NVIDIA web drivers.

Update: There will also be stock of the GTX 1060 FE available tomorrow. Should be $299.
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Nothing showing up on Nividia's web site for the GDTX 1080 FE yet (3/23, 12:08pm ET). Is this the right link? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1080/
 
How early did you check? Not sure if GTX 1080 FE and GTX 1060 FE have already sold out, or if they just haven't been posted yet. They typically sell out within minutes of being available thanks to the miners...

Every card is currently "OUT OF STOCK" on the NVIDIA store as of 12:56pm EDT 3/23. May want to refresh throughout day if you're looking for one. People on other forums have mentioned that the 1070 FE will be available as well.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-store/
 
bsbeamer said:
How early did you check? Not sure if GTX 1080 FE and GTX 1060 FE have already sold out, or if they just haven't been posted yet. They typically sell out within minutes of being available thanks to the miners...

Every card is currently "OUT OF STOCK" on the NVIDIA store as of 12:56pm EDT 3/23. May want to refresh throughout day if you're looking for one. People on other forums have mentioned that the 1070 FE will be available as well.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-store/
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OK. I started checking at O'Dawn, but still haven't seen anything. Thanks for your response.
 
TheStork said:
OK. I started checking at O'Dawn, but still haven't seen anything. Thanks for your response.
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Keep checking. NVIDIA TITAN Xp & GEFORCE GTX 1080 TI are available right now.
[doublepost=1521829837][/doublepost]All 10XX are available right now.
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Keep checking throughout day if you need one. They occasionally roll out additional stock. TITAN XP is all that's left at the moment.

There's a rumor on another forum that this may be the last batch of 10XX cards being sold directly by NVIDIA. Personally do not believe it, unless the next generation of cards is really close to being available in wide capacity. Last I knew Volta/Ampere cards were being delayed until mid-2018 at the earliest (using GTX 20XX naming). Seems like they still cannot create stock of GPUs fast enough to keep up with demand. That's an extremely envious business problem...

Does look like they are eliminating the "NOTIFY ME" option, so keep checking the shop page.
 
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I'd use a third party website change notifier and set it to check for changes every 5 minutes or whatever. I doubt you'll get ahead of the miners by manually checking unless you are really lucky.
 
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Finally able to upgrade to 10.13.4 (run the combo updater after firmware update). I know there is no official web driver yet. But all I can say is the 387 driver's colour bug still there. So, this bug cannot be fixed by macOS update. However, the 378 driver still working in 10.13.4. Performance is good, and no colour bug. Hopefully Nvidia will give us a driver that newer than the 387 for 10.13.4, and fix that annoying bug.

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h9826790 said:
Finally able to upgrade to 10.13.4 (run the combo updater after firmware update). I know there is no official web driver yet. But all I can say is the 387 driver's colour bug still there. So, this bug cannot be fixed by macOS update. However, the 378 driver still working in 10.13.4. Performance is good, and no colour bug. Hopefully Nvidia will give us a driver that newer than the 387 for 10.13.4, and fix that annoying bug.

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How did you roll back the driver?
 
h9826790 said:
IMO, the easiest way is by running the following command in terminal
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bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update/master/nvidia-update.sh)
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Wow. lol, that was fast! Thank you very much. Where did you find this script? Did you make it?
 
Thanks Lou. Can you also post a link to the webdriver for MacOS Sierra and the last securuty update 2018-002 10.12.6?
TIA
 
^^^^When I find it! This breaks the Cuda Driver 387.128. No new Cuda Driver available yet.

Lou
 
The 10.13.4 web driver totally hosed the performance of my 680 and introduced a ton of rendering glitches. Back on the Apple driver and everything is ok now. Be careful.
 
^^^^Using the web driver with my MVC flashed GTX 1080. Everything's running fine. But, unlike you, I don't have a choice of drivers.

Lou
 
With having to swap GTX 1080 FE for firmware update with the GTX 680 for Mac, will wait for the CUDA update release before I install 10.13.4. Don’t want to deal with that again.

Anyone know if this update combines the iMac driver into the same, or is there still going to be an additional release for that later? Few people here hacked their model IDs to iMac and need that driver.
 
^^^^Apple's website only shows two 10.13.4 updates. The Combo and the incremental. Looks like this release incorporates the iMac Pro.

Lou
 
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