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netflix is working for me. Also i just upgraded to 24GB ram, finally i can work with After Affects CS5 with no ram problems... i also haven't booted on my windows install since CUDA is working now.

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Originally Posted by xxxslayeriiixxx (Post 52214)

netflix is working for me. Also i just upgraded to 24GB ram, finally i can work with After Affects CS5 with no ram problems... i also haven't booted on my windows install since CUDA is working now.

that's awesome lol doubt you'll ever need to close a program again...think i may need to wipe and reinstall everything soon...got netflix working but i'm having a shitload of permission problems. Cant even enter "su" in terminal anymore, responds, "su:sorry" ....unable to copy and replace items in any system folders I get "you don't have permission" repair permissions doesn't work either :-|

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Originally Posted by banini_jeque (Post 52137)

I figure Airwalk probably deleted one of the RTC length sections since you only need one. For sound you just need the legacy kext, and then you need to either bin patch AppleHDA, or get the 10.6.2 rollback AppleHDA. If you google "perl AppleHDA ALC889" you should find the instructions to binpatch, or if you get the tonymacx86 multibeast it will have the 10.6.2 rollback in it. I got fed up with trying to make speedstep work on my SLI3, so I've now replaced it with the ASUS P6T WS Pro. I only need 3 kexts for it to be perfect.

its not a delete its a decrease from 4 to 2 in the dsdt

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Originally Posted by xxxslayeriiixxx (Post 52214)

netflix is working for me. Also i just upgraded to 24GB ram, finally i can work with After Affects CS5 with no ram problems... i also haven't booted on my windows install since CUDA is working now.

do you know of any way to transcode digital video (avi, divx, xvid, h264) using GPU?

Long story short if I download a movie and need to transcode it is there a way to do the transcode to h264 using GPU ?

you will need a CUDA enabled GPU, if your not aware of it already. Ive been transcoding/encoding through premiere pro cs5 and it shows significant time changes. I used to transcode videos for about 1-2 hours before. Now it only takes 10 - 15 minutes to transcode with the GTX480. i am not aware of any other programs that utilizes the GPU for transcoding, but im sure Premiere Pro Cs5 uses gpu acceleration for the mercury playback engine and exporting videos. So maybe you could put the (avi, divx, xvid, h264) in the timeline and export the video to whatever format you prefer. I havent tested Adobe Media Encoder CS5, but i think it uses the same programming for export. So maybe you could just use Media Encoder, but im not entirely sure about the GPU accelerated encoding since im always in Premiere Pro.

AND heres the other option that i havent tried. this looks promising, but not sure about the mac version

http://www.movavi.com/videoconverter/

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Convert Video 800% Faster

http://img.movavi.com/suite/v9/ov/vc_04.jpgOptimization for NVIDIA® CUDA™ results in 8x gain in video processing speed on PCs with CUDA-enabled graphics card and 10x gain on PCs with multiple GPUs. The program also ensures significant performance gain on AMD and Intel multi-core processors. Moreover, you can convert video even more faster with Turbo Plugin offering more efficient parallel task processing and advanced decoding technology.

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Gaining Performance with NVIDIA® CUDA™

Movavi Video Converter is optimized for NVIDIA® CUDA™ ensuring accelerated video decoding/encoding on a CUDA-enabled graphics card. The significant — up to 8 times — performance gain means prompt HD and SD video conversion, smooth playback and highest quality for all your favorite movies. Because Movavi Video Converter shifts video processing from your computer's CPU to NVIDIA's GPU, your computer’s CPU is fully available for use by other tasks.
CUDA technology saves you time when converting AVI, MP4, FLV, MKV with H.264 codec, MPEG (MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS) with MPEG1/MPEG2 codec to AVI, FLV, MP4 with H.264 codec. Now, you can instantly see which conversion formats leverage CUDA technology — making conversion considerably faster — by the CUDA logos shown alongside those format presets.

UPDATED tutorial with new links. DSDT creation. added "Intel Speed step, turbo boost note". added quotations for better organization of steps.

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For people wondering what the latest kext are after the "power management kext, speedstep fix" here it is. this is what i currently have in my kext folder.
http://osx86.co/f57/guide-evga-x58-s...post51321.html

If anybody wants me to add any useful links in the first post just message me or tell me here in the thread

-slayer

xxxslayeriiixxx,

i have evga x58 classified too but the 759 model, although my system is up and running im wanting to know if your dsdt would work on my mobo too im using bios 74, is there anything i would need to change in smbios like UUID etc...

im running 980x i7 @ 4.2
kingston hyper x 2000 mem 6gb
evga classified 759 mobo
Ati HD5970 x 2 crossfire x

thanks

i would suggest to create your own DSDT.aml, but you could always try. also change your smbios.plist according to your hardware specifications like RAM, the mac model you want, etc...

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Originally Posted by fq360 (Post 52373)

Wow, very nice setup - congrats! If I m not mistaken you've got six core cpu, right? If so this would be an interesting test to see if you are going to get native power/turbo running with newer than we are all using BIOS. At a minimum I would expect that you need to modify CPU section for six/12 core (it is four/8 right now) and generate your own ssdt files.

PS You might be able to get away with auto-generated ssdt tables if you are using RC5