Video card buying advise

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Hello. I need your advise to buy a graphics card. The CustoMac builds have some of them. What I need is your help to choose a very recent, cheap, compatible and easy card to install on Lion 10.7.4, that doesn't need extra juice from the power supply. My PSU is 500w and I cannot feed a graphics monster.

I am not a gamer, but I love 1080p movies.

Thanks

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hello. I need your advise to buy a graphics card. The CustoMac builds have some of them. What I need is your help to choose a very recent, cheap, compatible and easy card to install on Lion 10.7.4, that doesn't need extra juice from the power supply. My PSU is 500w and I cannot feed a graphics monster.

I am not a gamer, but I love 1080p movies.

Thanks

The GT520 should work.

 

[ChiefWizard]

Hello. I need your advise to buy a graphics card. The CustoMac builds have some of them. What I need is your help to choose a very recent, cheap, compatible and easy card to install on Lion 10.7.4, that doesn't need extra juice from the power supply. My PSU is 500w and I cannot feed a graphics monster.

I am not a gamer, but I love 1080p movies.

Thanks

You can feed a pretty good card with a 500w psu....

Also, HD3000 is enough to play a 1080p movie.

 

[JohnScho]

u could go with a 6850 they are 130 bucks and will do all of that

 

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I decided to go with XFX ATI Radeon HD6670 1GB DDR3 2DVI/Mini HDMI PCI-Express. As I believe, this is a very compatible card. GraphicsEnabler=Yes should be enough? Thanks.

 

[Mate94]

I decided to go with XFX ATI Radeon HD6670 1GB DDR3 2DVI/Mini HDMI PCI-Express. As I believe, this is a very compatible card. GraphicsEnabler=Yes should be enough? Thanks.

Nope. You need to add this to your org.chameleon.boot.plist

<key>AtiConfig</key>
<string>Pithecia</string>
<key>AtiPorts</key>
<string>3</string>