Wallstreet Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Just an FYI for you guys who want a well-performing card in both OS X (with QE/OGL/CI/Q2E) and Windows - Best Buy has a sale on the 7900GS for $149.99 - The PNY model they're selling works fine under OS X with Titan with no kext editing required. 7900GS > 7600GT Just sharing the news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dano2 Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 I returned my X1950 Pro and picked up one of these along with a Pioneer DVD Burner, a 512 Mb stick of ram and $21 in cash back. I am going to place it into my Hackintosh tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Just an FYI for you guys who want a well-performing card in both OS X (with QE/OGL/CI/Q2E) and Windows - Best Buy has a sale on the 7900GS for $149.99 - The PNY model they're selling works fine under OS X with Titan with no kext editing required. 7900GS > 7600GT Just sharing the news. Bought a 7300GS last night at one BestBuy because they were sold out of th 7900GS. Got the 7300GS because in the HCL one guy posted that it works flawlessly out of the box with Natit. Got home -- bubkis! Stayed up all night and couldn't get it to work. Took it back today to BestBuy, and lo and behold they had 3 7900GS. Just exchanged and paid a few $$ more. Can't wait to go home tonight and plug it in. I hope it works as you have said. I'll report back later tonight. /mdg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Snatched mine up yesterday. 10.4.8 semthex, neo's natit_uni, and voila! DVI out is what I've been looking for, and it autodetects any monitor I plug in to it (it knows the monitor brand and type in display preferences, and even refresh rates). I highly recommend it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 How's the fan noise at idle? I can't decide between fanless 7600GS and this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallstreet Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 The fan's very quiet during normal usage. During gaming, it gets a little whooshy, but nothing annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevoiceover Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I picked up an MSI NX7900GT-VT2D256E (I like this card as it also can do VIVO in Windows) and it is working in OSX (10.4.8) with QE/CI for $239 with $40 mail in rebate from zipzoomfly.. What I like most about this card is it is OC'd pretty well and you can beef it up way more if you want.. Core Clock 500MHz (vs. 450MHz standard) Memory Clock 1530MHz (vs. 1320MHz standard) Remember that it also has VIVO,HDCP and 24 pipelines. This is good for you people that want a very quick card for both systems and the reviews seem to be very high with this one.. From my experince, the GS and the GT are both very good cards and both of them are worth the price you get a little more with the GT, but is it worth the $50 and mail in rebate?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorosh Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I buying new computer in next few days, and I have trouble deciding which graphic card should I take. It will be P5W DH Deluxe / E6600 based system, and initially I planned to buy ATI X1650Pro. After reading lot of topics on this board I'm not really sure anymore. Is nVidia better way to go for hackintosh? I don't need card for gaming, so I don't won't too buy something like 7900 or X1900...I wouldn't go over 7300 or 7600GS/GT. I would prefer to have ATI card, but if nVidia cards work well in hackintosh systems, I might consider one of those cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallstreet Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 I buying new computer in next few days, and I have trouble deciding which graphic card should I take. It will be P5W DH Deluxe / E6600 based system, and initially I planned to buy ATI X1650Pro. After reading lot of topics on this board I'm not really sure anymore. Is nVidia better way to go for hackintosh? I don't need card for gaming, so I don't won't too buy something like 7900 or X1900...I wouldn't go over 7300 or 7600GS/GT. I would prefer to have ATI card, but if nVidia cards work well in hackintosh systems, I might consider one of those cards. Some of the more complex operations in Finder (ie the zooming/scaling of photos in a slideshow when you're doing a "view all" layout are much, much smoother on the 7900GS. For the price difference ($30?), I'd go with the 7900GS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swag01 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I just purchased the card and got things working. Thanks for the suggestion.... I don't have LCD screens so I am using regular monitors. I've noticed that I had to update the EDID for my second monitor to get things working. Also, when the system first comes up each time, it seems to spend some time figuring out what refresh rate or resolution the screens are. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Wallstreet, which version of Titan did you use to get this working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallstreet Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 I just purchased the card and got things working. Thanks for the suggestion.... I don't have LCD screens so I am using regular monitors. I've noticed that I had to update the EDID for my second monitor to get things working. Also, when the system first comes up each time, it seems to spend some time figuring out what refresh rate or resolution the screens are. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Wallstreet, which version of Titan did you use to get this working? I've only used it with LCDs. Did you get the second monitor working? How'd you go about doing that? I'm still running single-headed. I'm using Natit/Neopheus's installer. The screen will take about 20 seconds to come up initially....that's how Titan/Nitat work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swag01 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Okay, I thought you had dual head working. I tried the Neopheus installer but that caused more problems so I reinstalled the os and manually placed Natit in my extensions folder. The first time it came up, the second monitor wasn't full size and when I would move the mouse to the second monitor it would disappear. So, I got the EDID for both monitors and updated the info file with the values. I removed all the properties which get created when you do a display and rebooted. After the reboot, the second monitor was fully covered, just the resolution was lower so I changed it so they both match. Since then, they have been working without any issues except for when I start osx, it takes about 20 seconds before it figures out what monitors I have and then it resets to my config. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallstreet Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 Okay, I thought you had dual head working. I tried the Neopheus installer but that caused more problems so I reinstalled the os and manually placed Natit in my extensions folder. The first time it came up, the second monitor wasn't full size and when I would move the mouse to the second monitor it would disappear. So, I got the EDID for both monitors and updated the info file with the values. I removed all the properties which get created when you do a display and rebooted. After the reboot, the second monitor was fully covered, just the resolution was lower so I changed it so they both match. Since then, they have been working without any issues except for when I start osx, it takes about 20 seconds before it figures out what monitors I have and then it resets to my config. Can you give me a step by step? Where do you get the EDID value? What info file do you put it into (the plist?) under what key? Which properties did you remove, and more importantly, what version of Natit did you use? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swag01 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Can you give me a step by step? Where do you get the EDID value? What info file do you put it into (the plist?) under what key? Which properties did you remove, and more importantly, what version of Natit did you use? Thanks. See this post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...167#entry235225 message #167 for the details on what I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallstreet Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 See this post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...167#entry235225 message #167 for the details on what I did. You didn't answer most of my questions in your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorosh Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Some of the more complex operations in Finder (ie the zooming/scaling of photos in a slideshow when you're doing a "view all" layout are much, much smoother on the 7900GS. For the price difference ($30?), I'd go with the 7900GS. I don't know the prices elsewhere, but in my country ATI X1650 Pro costs 150$ and 7900GS costs over 300$. That's way over 30$ you're suggesting. 7900GS is out of the question unfortunately. I see that people have succes with nVidia cards lately, so I'm basically interested what's safer bet - ATI or nVidia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellair Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) I don't know the prices elsewhere, but in my country ATI X1650 Pro costs 150$ and 7900GS costs over 300$. That's way over 30$ you're suggesting. 7900GS is out of the question unfortunately. I see that people have succes with nVidia cards lately, so I'm basically interested what's safer bet - ATI or nVidia? In what country do you live? Angola? More seriously, I've got a 7800GT and I'm planning to take 7900GS to replace it. Is it a good choice or not??? Is it worth the money? Edited February 8, 2007 by Kingskawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSimilian Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 i bought a eVGA 7900GS KO for i think about 150$. under XP it's really fast and i can play all the new games in a high resolution and nice effects, but i couldnt get QE/CI in osx there is always a error, about geforce.kext connecting IONDRVsupport, NVDAresman, and some other kext. dont know what to do. if someone could send me a pm explaining me what to do, or sending me a link, i would be very pleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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