EFI for GTX 770 SC?

[Akira28.com]

I had a friend of mine selling a barely used GTX 770 SC, so i decided to give it a try. I must admit it looks a little faster and smoother compared to my previous GTX 680 SC Signature.

Now, my noob questions this time are [given the fact that with 10.8.5 & cuda & nvidia driver manager the card is almost plug and you're almost fine like that]:

1. Is there a valid motivation why one should have to stay on gtx 680? I mean, the 770 is almost identical and looks like a re-newal of the 680 and its price new is almost a 680 price used.

2. Is there a tutorialed way to flash an EFI in a 770? I know for someone it's a business, so I can understand if there won't be a tutorial. I'm just aking.
'cause I noticed the black-maybeworkingmaybenot-screen until the desktop shows up and i remembered after that i have bootcamp too, so I'd need a boot screen. With the 680 that was pretty easy considering the 680 mac edition rom + bios tweaker combo.

 

[pastrychef]

BootChamp is a nice little app that helps with booting to a Bootcamp partition without having to use the boot menu.

 

[chiefsucker]

1. Is there a valid motivation why one should have to stay on gtx 680? I mean, the 770 is almost identical and looks like a re-newal of the 680 and its price new is almost a 680 price used.

The GTX 770 is basically an overclocked GTX 680. My experience is that the former card is a little bit cheaper (especially after the price cut about a week ago) and it is a couple percent faster (due to the overclocking). Both are great and it’s almost the same card.

2. Is there a tutorialed way to flash an EFI in a 770? I know for someone it's a business, so I can understand if there won't be a tutorial. I'm just aking.
'cause I noticed the black-maybeworkingmaybenot-screen until the desktop shows up and i remembered after that i have bootcamp too, so I'd need a boot screen. With the 680 that was pretty easy considering the 680 mac edition rom + bios tweaker combo.

Yes, that’s the only reason I can think of while one should stay with the GTX 680. The missing boot screen isn’t a huge problem for most folks though. You can even select the boot volume from the corresponding System Preferences pane without 3rd party utilities.

I would also love to know if we’ll see a GTX 770 EFI ROM in the future. From a couple of eBay searches it looks like MacVidCards is selling them already.

 

[Akira28.com]

I tried bootchamp and it's really great.
New problem: i just bought a second SSD, so i'll need a boot screen.
I think I'll be forced to sell the gtx 770 even if I feel it working better than the 680.

 

[ActionableMango]

I tried bootchamp and it's really great.
New problem: i just bought a second SSD, so i'll need a boot screen.
I think I'll be forced to sell the gtx 770 even if I feel it working better than the 680.

Not a problem. Bootchamp doesn't care if your boot volumes are partitions or whole drives, so the procedure doesn't really change just because you are adding an SSD. I have OS X and Windows on separate internal SSDs and Bootchamp works just fine.

 

[MacVidCards]

I tried bootchamp and it's really great.
New problem: i just bought a second SSD, so i'll need a boot screen.
I think I'll be forced to sell the gtx 770 even if I feel it working better than the 680.

If you are in US might be worth having us mod it for you.

 

[Akira28.com]

If you are in US might be worth having us mod it for you.

Italy

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Not a problem. Bootchamp doesn't care if your boot volumes are partitions or whole drives, so the procedure doesn't really change just because you are adding an SSD. I have OS X and Windows on separate internal SSDs and Bootchamp works just fine.

I'll have a SSD with OSX & WIN, the other with just OSX.
So the problems come when i need to decide which SSD i want to boot from, that's what i meant

 

[DanielCoffey]

There is always System Preferences - Startup Disk which will allow you to chose your OSX drive to be used from next boot. Clumsy but available.

 

[Akira28.com]

There is always System Preferences - Startup Disk which will allow you to chose your OSX drive to be used from next boot. Clumsy but available.

There are several ways.
Since i have pci-e adapter i have to power the SSD taking power from MacPro's mobo or from external with a 220V to sata power adapter.
I could decide which SSD power if i use 2 external power adapters.

But the target is staying sat with my finger on the alt button and see my beloved grey screen haha