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Captain Egotist · Mar 2, 2005, 10:41 AM

Okay, long story short: I ordered a geforce 4 titanium off ebay... it arrived... but doesn't work right, it artifacts like crazy:

http://chicane.myftp.org/Random/artifact1.jpg
http://chicane.myftp.org/Random/artifact2.jpg

The seller refunded me, he doesn't want the broken card back. Sooooo.... now that I have a 'free' quasi broken card.... how can I fix it? I've tried it in 2 other macs with teh same results.

ALSO: ARE THERE DRIVERS I NEED TO DOWNLOAD FOR THIS CARD?!?! I cannot find info on it anywhere.

- Rob

Leonard · Mar 2, 2005, 11:00 AM

If it's a Mac Geforce 4 Ti, it was sold by Apple as an OEM card which means the drivers should be in the MacOS.

Captain Egotist · Mar 2, 2005, 11:02 AM

That's what I thought.

Lateralus · Mar 2, 2005, 05:05 PM

A re-installation of OS X wouldn't hurt.

Captain Egotist · Mar 2, 2005, 08:34 PM

Already tried it in 2 other macs with a fresh OSX install.

No go.

It's all glitchy. What kind of warranty does Nvidea have? Would they fix it or replace it if I sent it to them?

- Rob

the corporation · Mar 2, 2005, 08:36 PM

On its face, it seems to be a card that was overclocked too high so there is little you can do.

Leonard · Mar 2, 2005, 09:39 PM

Originally posted by Captain Egotist:
It's all glitchy. What kind of warranty does Nvidea have? Would they fix it or replace it if I sent it to them?

- Rob

It's an OEM card, Apple sells it, Apple supports it. They won't fix it or replace it as it was either part of a computer system and the computer is what is warranteed, not the parts, or it was sold as a separate card upgrade, which I don't think Apple warrantees. It would be out of warrantee anyway as it's wayyyyy old.

Captain Egotist · Mar 2, 2005, 10:49 PM

Originally posted by the corporation:
On its face, it seems to be a card that was overclocked too high so there is little you can do.

People keep saying this ****, but then I hear that you cannot overclock a mac card. Will someone PLEASE tell me if you can or cannot ****ing overclock one, IF SO, how?!

IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED.

- Rob

MORT A POTTY · Mar 3, 2005, 01:51 AM

yes, you CAN overclock mac cards. ATI cards are by far the easiest though because of ATIcelerator II which is actually a soft mod. everything else has to be done with the actual card and I am not about to tinker with the actual card itself I just paid several hundred bucks for

Captain Egotist · Mar 3, 2005, 09:36 AM

So how does one overclock this card? PLEASE PROVIDE A LINK WITH INSTRUCTIONS. THIS WILL ALLOW ME TO UNDERCLOCK THE CARD. IF YOU FEEL LIKE SAYING IT CAN BE OVERCLOCKED OR CANT BE OVERCLOCKED PLEASE PROVIDE A LINK TO BACK UP YOUR POST.

- Rob

Matthew Attoe · Mar 3, 2005, 09:43 AM

www.google.com

Captain Egotist · Mar 3, 2005, 10:15 AM

Yes thank you for that wonderful helpful link. Problem is, IVE ****ING GOOGLED FOR OVER AN HOUR AND I HAVENT FOUND ONE GOD DAMN THING ABOUT OVERCLOCKING A MAC GEFORCE 4 TITANIUM!

So, seeing as how some of you are SURE that this card has been overclocked, you obviously ****ing read somewhere that it's possible to overclock a mac card.... so WHERE DID YOU READ IT?!

Ass.

Matthew Attoe · Mar 3, 2005, 10:21 AM

I'm glad you found the link useful.

After you pointed it out to me in one of my threads about displaying frame-rates I've found it a very useful resource.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=247596

Perhaps if you were slightly politer in your tone, people may be willing to help you more.

I hope you find the answer you're looking for.

Best wishes,

Matthew

Captain Egotist · Mar 3, 2005, 10:54 AM

Originally posted by Matthew Attoe:
I'm glad you found the link useful.

After you pointed it out to me in one of my threads about displaying frame-rates I've found it a very useful resource.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=247596

Perhaps if you were slightly politer in your tone, people may be willing to help you more.

I hope you find the answer you're looking for.

Best wishes,

Matthew

That's great Matthew, but putting in "Display FPS Quake 3" brings up results that answer your question. Type in 'overclock mac geforce titanium" and see what comes up... jack ****.

Point being?

I already tried google before I started asking here.

- Rob

chris v · Mar 3, 2005, 11:03 AM

Give 'em hell, Rob.

Geez, people, what's tha matta with answering the guy's question?

lenox · Mar 3, 2005, 11:52 AM

Originally posted by chris v:
Geez, people, what's tha matta with answering the guy's question?

Could be the fact that he's acting like a tool; I dunno.

Captain Egotist · Mar 3, 2005, 12:40 PM

Could be the fact that all of you are full of **** and talking about things you don't know about and are just guessing at...

yeah, pretty sure it's that.

chris v · Mar 3, 2005, 03:13 PM

Originally posted by lenox:
Could be the fact that he's acting like a tool; I dunno.

He did say "it would be much appreciated" and "please" before people posted dumb links/got testy.

I know how to do things on my mac that you don't-- and I'm not telling you what they are or how to find these things out for yourself. Nya, Nya!

Lateralus · Mar 3, 2005, 04:04 PM

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