YournForMac93 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Hi, I was just wondering a simple question. I'm looking to build a hackintosh and I'm just picking out my parts now. I was wondering if I bought a graphics card that is already used in a mac would it work out of the box in a hackintosh? E.g if i bought an ATI RAEDON 4670 that is in the new iMacs, would it work OOB? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240303-using-apple-integrated-graphics-cards/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Hackintosh is an outside the box project, not an out of the box one. For "OOB" get a Mac, otherwise, the graphics cards that can be made to work are well documented, search and you will find. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240303-using-apple-integrated-graphics-cards/#findComment-1605126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
YournForMac93 Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 Hackintosh is an outside the box project, not an out of the box one. For "OOB" get a Mac, otherwise, the graphics cards that can be made to work are well documented, search and you will find. I know this I was just wondering. Clearly apple has the kext/driver support for all their hardware in their software. I just thought if I bought the same model of graphics card they use would it be able to tap into the driver/kext support preloaded in osx Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240303-using-apple-integrated-graphics-cards/#findComment-1606027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I know this I was just wondering. Clearly apple has the kext/driver support for all their hardware in their software. I just thought if I bought the same model of graphics card they use would it be able to tap into the driver/kext support preloaded in osx Apple cards use the EFI not video BIOS on their cards a PC card does not have that EFI part flashed into the their ROMs so don't work out of the box. Now most times it is just a matter of having the GraphicsEnabler Yes key/string pair in your com.apple.Boot.plist so the boot loader knows to auto-detect the graphics and enable it. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240303-using-apple-integrated-graphics-cards/#findComment-1606042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
YournForMac93 Posted December 27, 2010 Author Share Posted December 27, 2010 Apple cards use the EFI not video BIOS on their cards a PC card does not have that EFI part flashed into the their ROMs so don't work out of the box. Now most times it is just a matter of having the GraphicsEnabler Yes key/string pair in your com.apple.Boot.plist so the boot loader knows to auto-detect the graphics and enable it. Thanks that was a great help! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/240303-using-apple-integrated-graphics-cards/#findComment-1609587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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