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2 or even 3 DISPLAYS with GA-EX58-UD5 - in Snow Leo? Which Graphic-Card?


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Hello you guys.

 

WHAT I STRONGLY NEED TO KNOW:

Which midrange performance card (+/- 100,-) card will run ON BOTH DVI OUTPUTS on Snow Leopard with a GA-EX-UD5 Board? "Will run" means 100% QE/CI. Just with a little EFI or even from the start! I know there are cards that work from the start (8400GS does, but this card is not a real hardware accelerator)

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR THE ONES WHO CARE FOR THE BACKROUND:

I am a prof. Mac User (Freelance AD) since a decade now. But i am sick of paying lots thousands to apple, just to see them developing "pink" iPods! ;-( So i gave hackintosh a try - and i am very impressed. The machine works great.

BUT the graphic does not as i want!

 

I have an intel i7 / GA-EX-D5U Board/ 12GB Corsair Ram/ 2x Caviar 500GB / Corsair 650...

and my system is running Snow Leopard.

 

I tried the following cards:

1x Sparkle 8400GS, 512MB (--> 100% working on both outputs)

1x Zotac 9500 GT, 512MB (--> working on both outputs, but no CI ;-(...)

1x Club Radeon 4850, 1GB (--> working 0%, only in "-x" safety mode with a mirrored screen)

1x Zotac 260 GTX, 896MB (--> working with QE/CI - BUT ONLY ON ONE OUTPUT, i never made the second one working!)

 

So - i have cards for about 400,- around me, and the cheapest is working best! ;-) // ;-(

I tried every tutorial i found to get the 4850 working, i tried everything i found to bring the second output on the 260GTX to life. (DSDT patching did not really made it for me - cause i´m not really "in" this DSDT patching thing! I tried - but it ended with a "non-starting-system".)

My need is to run 3 Displays, i know this worked with Leopard for others, but i am working in this since 3 weeks now - and i was not able to get this fixed - either i did not read about any success-storys of people installing more than one graphic card at a GA-EX58 Board.

 

So please - if anybody knows about a successfully install of two graphic cards in one GA-EX58 Board - PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!

Because after 3 weeks of nerdin´around up to six hours every night - i´m sick of cables, harddrives and screws... So my solution for the moment is to buy an external USB-Card to get my third screen, and to get another STRONG internal card which offers me two DVI-Outputs. Because i don´t think that i will be able to get two internal cards working!

 

P.S.:

For any other freelancer who is reading this! If you want to run three displays - Buy a real MacPro! If your time is money and you earn money with your mac - The fastest MacPro will come cheaper than sitting up to 100hours behind a hackintosh. For me it´s to late, the components are already bought! On the other hand, it´s an interesting project, in which i learned much about how unix systems work! (But i never learned enough to get my "display-problems" handled! ;-(...)

 

 

THANKS IN ADVANCE

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