NeoNihilist Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Hi everyone, So Being a newbie I often hear here and there that it's better to go with NVidia cards to build a hackintosh, and it raises many questions... 1) Simply why? Apart from the Macbooks, now 100% of the imacs and Mac Pro use Radeon cards....5750, 5770 and 5870. 2) I read almost the entire forum dedicated to graphic cards, it's full of people proudly announcing that they can run their 5870 in 64-bits... 3) These rather confusing posts, where a contributor clearly says that a GTX460 card won't work at all (<-- Link underlined) and "the only Fermi cards that work at this time are GF100 based cards 465, 470 and 480, with disappointing performance and an annoying vsync issue." (<-- Link underlined) Please, can anybody help? I'm lost now. Much appreciated. Thanks. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235524-newbie-question-2-graphic-cards-nvidia/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 3) These rather confusing posts, where a contributor clearly says that a GTX460 card won't work at all (disappointing performance and an annoying vsync issue." ( I try but I don't know how I can be more clear: GTX460 is not GF100 based, ergo it doesn't work. Go read the Fermi wiki article, which is linked to in the post you are referring to. And pay attention to the numbers. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235524-newbie-question-2-graphic-cards-nvidia/#findComment-1571315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 IMHO a matter of personal preferences. Though the MB my system is build upon, has a build-in ATI card. If any ATI PCI-E is installed (doesn't matter if the on-board one is disabled or not), the system doesn't boot at all. So Nvidia only... Other consideration is an Apple LED Cinema display. If you use one (or more), a card with at least two Mini display port is needed. Most Nvidia cards doesn't have such option. The one that has, is not the most powerful one. ATI has something to offer here. I'm 100% happy with Nvidia card. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235524-newbie-question-2-graphic-cards-nvidia/#findComment-1571325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoNihilist Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 I try but I don't know how I can be more clear: GTX460 is not GF100 based, ergo it doesn't work.Go read the Fermi wiki article, which is linked to in the post you are referring to. And pay attention to the numbers. Thank you Gringo! It was cool you were in the place at that moment and nice of you to respond. Now I get that part. What I still don't get though, is why nvidia is said to be natively recognized when 100% of the macs - excpet the macbooks - have ATI cards? That I just don't understand. IMHO a matter of personal preferences. Yeah I think so, but I very often read here and there that nvidia cards are more recognized and easier to deal with when building a hackintosh. So unless this reputation is false, I don't get why, this is totally illogical. I am being a total noob here - I was a PC user for 15 years, I built my own PCs, now I'm on MacBook, but Hackintosh is a thing i know nothing about for now. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235524-newbie-question-2-graphic-cards-nvidia/#findComment-1571339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 What I still don't get though, is why nvidia is said to be natively recognized when 100% of the macs - excpet the macbooks - have ATI cards? That I just don't understand. nvidia cards are still available as an option from the Apple Store when you configure your Mac Pro and new Fermi-based Quadro models are coming in November. I don't have any personal experience with ATI cards on a Hackintosh but from what I've seen it usually takes a bit more work to get even a natively supported ATI card going. My Geforce 9800GTX+ (dev id 0x0612) works out of the box with OS X, it's natively supported by the nvidia drivers even though they (as far as I know) never released a Mac specific model of this card. All I need is an injection method - Chameleon GraphicsEnabler or NVEnabler.kext. The most you have to do is inserting your nvidia card's device ID in the appropriate nvidia kernel extension. This usually works fine as long as the chip family is supported. Google 'guide for all nvidia boards' to learn more about this process. "Injection" is needed on all video cards - roughly speaking, it substitutes the EFI ROM on Mac-specific video cards, that our PC video cards don't have. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235524-newbie-question-2-graphic-cards-nvidia/#findComment-1571353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoNihilist Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 Awesome. Thank you for all this good info Gringo. It's past 2 AM here, so I go to sleep now. I'll be around these days. Cheers Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235524-newbie-question-2-graphic-cards-nvidia/#findComment-1571371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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