tamias6 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I am building my first DIY computer and plan to make it a hackintosh as I cannot afford the high prices of a Mac Pro specced to my needs. I am currently shopping for a good video card as my hackintosh will also function as a Windows Gaming PC as well. Games will be played on Windows 7. Mac-side, I will be running Adobe Creative Suite, iMovie, and would like the option open to throw in Final Cut Express. The card I would like to run is the Geforce GTX 285. But I am not fully confident that choice will work. The standard PC version comes with 2gb of VRAM which according to topics here, apps like Final Cut along with any program that checks VRAM will not work on anything over 1gb. This leaves me with the option of using the EVGA Geforce GTX 285 mac edition. But I am left with the question of rather or not it will work on standard PC mother boards. Meaning being able to see anything on my display when I need to work with the BIOS settings and using software such as Empire EFI before and during the installation process. Even if the Mac Edition of the 285 does work on standard PC parts, the price point of that card leaves much to be desired as I can get my hands on a Geforce GTX 480 for a similar price point (Which would be stellar for games). But since this is my first venture in building a Hackintosh, my questions are as follows. Should I go with the GTX 480 or would I have an easier time getting the GTX 285 to work. If I'm to go with the 285, will the Mac Edition of that card work with standard PC parts. I Plan to install OS X Snow Leopard Retail via Empire EFI (preferred) or using an EFIX USB dongle (Backup Plan) My build consists of the following Intel core i7 Gigabyte X58A-UD3R motherboard 12 gigs of Corsair DDR3 ram All SATA drives I hope I'm not being too intrusive. But I have the funds ready and plan to make my purchase very soon and don't want to spend 500 dollars on something that won't work. And so far my research is turning up cloudy and conflicting answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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