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If you're not a gamer, the GTS 250 is fine. If you are, I'd pick up a GTX 260.

 

I know the GTS 250 covers my needs in power. so the price of the 260 is not all worth while. but would it be easier to install (the 260 is around as expensive as I am willing to go)

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I'm also searching for some info on a video card. I will be posting a full system review in a bit, but I'm running an EVGA 9800GT on my new rig and it worked perfectly out of the box. Full resolution, dual monitors. It's great. However, I also bought an EVGA GTX260 and I'm trying to decide which one to return. I'm am nervous about "screwing something up" so I'm hesitant about taking out the 9800 to upgrade to the 260.

 

So my question really is, what is the best video card ($300 or less) that runs native out of the box or with very minimal configuration? Would the 4870 be a better bet over the 260 since it's the default in a Mac Pro from Apple?

 

Your recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

As far as I know it'd be no harder or easier to install – the only NVIDIA GPU I have direct experience with in a hackintosh is my 8800 GT, and I didn't have to do anything to get that working.
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Just bought a Diamond Radeon 4650 Pro with 1 Gb GDDR2 memory. It cost $75 USD.

 

No idea how this card rates performance wise, but it handles Second Life between 50-70 FPS maxed out which seems pretty damn good to me.

 

It will not work under Leopard.

Under Snow Leopard 10.6.2 I had to use Netkas' ATI package but got QE/CI and resolution change.

Under Snow Leopard 10.6.3 I had to remove the enablers I had installed on 10.6.2 and then just add my device ID to the 4600Controller and Radeon2000 kext. I have QE/CI and resolution change.

 

I do not have dual-monitor support yet, but this is supposedly possible once you get to 10.6.3. but I just haven't gotten an answer how to do it yet.

 

The card has a DVI, VGA, and a S-video port. You need to use a DVI-VGA convertor otherwise both monitors will go to sleep when you boot.

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I'm also searching for some info on a video card. I will be posting a full system review in a bit, but I'm running an EVGA 9800GT on my new rig and it worked perfectly out of the box. Full resolution, dual monitors. It's great. However, I also bought an EVGA GTX260 and I'm trying to decide which one to return. I'm am nervous about "screwing something up" so I'm hesitant about taking out the 9800 to upgrade to the 260.

 

So my question really is, what is the best video card ($300 or less) that runs native out of the box or with very minimal configuration? Would the 4870 be a better bet over the 260 since it's the default in a Mac Pro from Apple?

 

Your recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

I have an HIS 4870 1GB right now. I failed to Install SL because it turned out my hard drive was bad. I got into 10.6.0 with this card at (rounded off, dont remember the exact amount) 1000x724 resolution. but I needed the EFI installer to boot. any bootloader killed the system. I updated to 10.6.3 and it killed the system. I havent tried 10.6.1 or 10.6.2. from what I know the Kexts/DSDT for the 4870 significantly change in 10.6.3 making it a harder card to get working

 

I don't understabnd Kexts and DSDT patching well. I would like a primary card of 1GB that can get me a minimal effort build. the 9800GTX+ 1GB is discontinued but I would love that if it works out of the box. so the XFX GTS 250 1GB is my next preference of choice

 

I will be getting a new hard drive. so when I run the installs again I will see how well it works. here is my exact card

 

HIS 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo

One of the best overclocking versions, and the coolest temperatures of any overclcocking 4870's.

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xjasx: strong words – my HD 4890 has always worked far more smoothly than my 8800 GT in Mac OS X or Windows.

 

VinP14: odd, the 4870 is the card that has better support even up to 10.6.3 – what you should is go here and download netkas' QE/CI patch for 10.6.3 and his 'A fix for a fix' pkg and you'll be good to go. That's all I did to get my HD 4890 working in my system. Running two small software packages isn't much effort. :)

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If your going to do editing try to get a card you can softmod to a workstation card to improve the speed during rendering. I think the 9800GT may be softmodable

 

Without having to softmod anything do you think this card is good enough for the job of Video Editing? Or dose anyone have any suggestions of cards they would recommend for this purpose?

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imo GTS 250 card look pretty decent in term of memory (1gb) Core clock (738mhz) and effective memory clock (2200 )

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-513-_-Product

 

you can compare with the 9800GTX+ 512

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-339-_-Product

 

or

9800 GT 1gb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-440-_-Product

 

I chose these cards with similar price for easier comparison

 

For video editing the number on the GTS 250 card look very nice assuming that you use final cut studio. Those app love RAM and VRAM , card speed also help. So yeah. if you dont do heavy 3D work or video GTS 250 Would cut the deal nicely.

 

This is just my speculation on the card number, not sure about its performance, compartibility and stability under Snow Leopard. I am using a 8800 GTS 640MB wiht iATKOS v7 10.5.7 , running pretty smooth with FCP, motion and AE.

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