ryudo423 Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Hey everyone! So I am thinking about picking up a new graphics card for my hack. I currently have an ATI radeon 4350 and have had enough of it with os x. I have tried for the past two days to get it to work with 10.6.5 and no luck. As I have been wanting to upgrade my card anyway i think i am going to make the Jump to Nvidia. so i have some questions: I am led to believe nVidia cards as a whole are more supported and easier to set up.. is this true? i would like a card that's easy to set up in 10.6.5 and provides pretty good gaming.. (I do game a bit in my windows partiton) I use VGA and am on a tight budget.. dont want to spend more that 75 bucks.. ive looke don newegg and found the 200 series GT.. are they any good.. Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirloui Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Most NVidia cards will work with just graphics enabler. (google it; very easy) It you can stretch to 100$; there is the GTS250 which is fine, else you should be able to get a 9800GT for less. Lower down the 9600GT is a bit more more powerfull than a GT240. Good luck (not that you need much; those cards are a safe ride) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryudo423 Posted November 15, 2010 Author Share Posted November 15, 2010 thanks for the response! im looking at the newer geforce gt 430.... anyone had any success with this card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Damn it feels good to do this: Stay away from Fermi cards for now. Only the 470 and 480 work, but with substantial performance degradation, a vsync issue and no OpenCL or CUDA (if I recall correctly). At this time, the fastest nvidia card that will work perfectly is the GTX 285. New nvidia drivers are out with improved Fermi support. I use a Leadtek Winfast 9800GTX+ device ID 0x0612, it works out of the box (HDMI untested) with unmodified nvidia drivers and NVEnabler.kext or Chameleon GraphicsEnabler. Gaming performance is good at 1280x1024. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryudo423 Posted November 15, 2010 Author Share Posted November 15, 2010 Stay away from Fermi cards for now. Only the 470 and 480 work, but with substantial performance degradation, a vsync issue and no OpenCL or CUDA (if I recall correctly). At this time, the fastest nvidia card that will work perfectly is the GTX 285. I use a Leadtek Winfast 9800GTX+ device ID 0x0612, it works out of the box (HDMI untested) with unmodified nvidia drivers and NVEnabler.kext or Chameleon GraphicsEnabler. Gaming performance is good at 1280x1024. Thanks for the fast reply... i think i may go with the gt 240 as im really only a moderate gamer and on a tight budget.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Heads up! A new nvidia driver for 10.6.5 was released today with Fermi support, including support for the GTX 460. I'm not sure about the GTX 430. See the fermi thread and the new releases and updates forum for more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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