Hi all,
Just fitted an XFX 9800GT 512mb graphics card into my Mac Pro for gaming in bootcamp.
I have moved the original 7300gt card up one slot and fitted the 9800 in the lowest fastest slot.
The 9800 is a PC version card which meant I had a bit of a nightmare connecting the extra power lead and had to resort to some cable adapters and feed the cable from my unused optical drive connector and behind the HDD tray.
All works fine and playing Far Cry 2 via bootcamp works well, the problem I have is that when I boot into leopard there appears to be nothing controlling the fan speed on the 9800 which means it runs full speed all the time, this gets annoying and is a similar sound to a disc spinning at high speed in the superdrive.
I assume that because there are no drivers loaded/suitable for the 9800 whilst in Leopard there is nothing to control the fan, has anyone any suggestions?
I have read about similar problems in other threads but nothing for the 9800gt 'non-mac' version, also the cooloing setup on this card is quite poorly designed, the fan looks cheap and small and actually blows air INTO the case which probably isn't helping.
I had thought about trying to reverse the fan direction by swapping the wires on the fan connector but I'm not sure which ones to change as it has 4 wires!
Just fitted an XFX 9800GT 512mb graphics card into my Mac Pro for gaming in bootcamp.
I have moved the original 7300gt card up one slot and fitted the 9800 in the lowest fastest slot.
The 9800 is a PC version card which meant I had a bit of a nightmare connecting the extra power lead and had to resort to some cable adapters and feed the cable from my unused optical drive connector and behind the HDD tray.
All works fine and playing Far Cry 2 via bootcamp works well, the problem I have is that when I boot into leopard there appears to be nothing controlling the fan speed on the 9800 which means it runs full speed all the time, this gets annoying and is a similar sound to a disc spinning at high speed in the superdrive.
I assume that because there are no drivers loaded/suitable for the 9800 whilst in Leopard there is nothing to control the fan, has anyone any suggestions?
I have read about similar problems in other threads but nothing for the 9800gt 'non-mac' version, also the cooloing setup on this card is quite poorly designed, the fan looks cheap and small and actually blows air INTO the case which probably isn't helping.
I had thought about trying to reverse the fan direction by swapping the wires on the fan connector but I'm not sure which ones to change as it has 4 wires!