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Best graphic card (compatible or soon compatible) for FCPX

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Here in Belgium (Europe), on Amazon, 4GB is ~80€ (~120$) more expensive than the 2GB :p

I knew AMD graphic cards were better supported by FCP but high-end cards are still loud and consume around 100 Watts more. I'm going to record voice too and I don't want to have more work at reducing background noise for only a few bucks saved :/ Its not what I want when I spend 1400€ for a computer and 450€ for a high-end microphone. And I want to dual-boot for gaming :3

I'm sorry to not have said all I was going to do with my computer, it's like when people goes to the doctor and think "the less I speak, faster he'll find the solution" and I was wrong :p

So I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do with my future computer:
Windows: I'm going to live stream gaming footage and have my voice over it. Because it'll be live, I can't work on background noise reduction in post-production, so I can't take the risk of having an AMD graphic cards and the noise coming with it, I'll probably have to buy some expensive fans and watercooling system, I can't afford that now :/ And gaming performance is overall better with Nvidia graphic cards.

Hackintosh: Once live is over, I want to switch to Mac OS X and use Final Cut Pro X to do some montage, videos will be between 10 and 20min long in Full HD, 30fps. Some people may think "why don't you stick with Adobe Premiere Pro? Its a professionnal tool" and they'll be right! I love Adobe softwares and use them for so many years (Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Illustrator), but I don't find Adobe Premiere Pro attractive, I guess it's maybe too "professionnal", when I'm using my brother's Macbook Pro, I love how FCPX is shaped, easy to learn and less empty than Adobe Premiere Pro.

That's why I wanted in first place to have a Hackintosh, then I began to like more and more Mac ecosystem but the price.. Well, I think Hackintosh community is made of people who really loves Mac but can't pay 2000$ for only an iMac i5, 8Gb RAM and GTX 775M. With that money you could afford a better Hackintosh and buy yourself a 11" MacBook Air. I think its all I had to say! :D

I hope that I clarified my needs and that you're now more able to help me with my quest! :p

Edit: @trs96: Hey! That's great, I don't really know if that'll help me, I know FirePro series like Quadro series are made for professionnal and I already looked for some gaming performance and couldn't find one video on YouTube. My problem here is to be shared between video editing and gaming performance. I wondered.. Can I put an Nvidia card and AMD cards in my computer and only use the AMD on Hackintosh and the Nvidia one on Windows? It may a stupid to ask because I never saw that but if its possible, I can maybe try something else..

Edit2: I just found the AMD HD7990 which is way better than the 780ti for about the same price, I can maybe take it if it gives me with no doubt support for FCPX. But still need to wait and see for the new update and drivers :(
 
You wouldn't want to use a FirePro for gaming. If you have to game on
the same machine the best choice would be the R9 280X. You could put
a third party cooler on it that is quieter. There are also models by
Sapphire and others that use non-reference coolers. (the noisy ones are reference)

It should also perform fairly well
as a single GPU for FCP X. Here's the OpenCL Luxmark 2.0 scores:

From www.tomshardware.com

TRS 2014-01-13 at 9.55.54 AM.jpg Click on graphic to enlarge
 
Now you're talking to me! That really helps me a lot to make my choice :DSo now, I just have to wait the update from Apple, if the R9 290x is supported, that's it! Even if the 780ti is supported, I think I'll stick with AMD's, almost half the score for the Titan? Meh. 780ti will in best scenario get half the score of R9 290x :3 It'll have been even greater if Crossfire was supported, maybe with the Mac Pro, Hackintosh will find a way to so I'm really excited ;DThank you so much Tsr, I didn't realised that the difference was that huge. I'm glad I came here for help and you guys did a great job! :D I was stick with the idea Nvidia would be more convenient and better for me (and in some ways, it would) but ~200$ more for slightly better gaming performance but half performance for video editing? Nope, you guys kicked the Nvidia sheep out of me :3Now I'm less worried about that, I just hope R9 290x will be supported :3 And I'm waiting for the Asus DCUII version of it because the reference one is just.. heat and noise. It's like hell was inside this card. If Asus do a great job as always, I'll not have to smash my head on the wall again :D
 
aaron97 said:
Isn't FCP OpenCL accelerated and not CUDA? OpenCL is generally much more powerful on AMD cards than nvidia. ex. LuxMark. You might be able to get a cheaper AMD card that performs just as well if not better than a GTX 770, keep in mind the new mac pros use radeon cards.
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According to PJALM, AMD (ATI/Radeon) cards are better for Gaming, NVIDIA is better for editing video. According to reviews/benchmarks Ive come across NVIDIA does seem to be "faster" for video editing. I realize youll be using FCPX but Premiere Pro benchmarks show that NVIDIA cards are fastest. For gaming Radeon, for editing video NVIDIA just look at the user builds they all use NVIDIA cards for video editing (reasoning being what the pros use is what the pros use).

check out these user builds:

[Success] Geminii's HexaBeast | i7-3970X | ASUS Rampage IV Extreme | GTX 760

Asus X79 Rampage IV Extreme | Core i7-3930K (Successful)

SangThip's Build - ASRock X79 Extreme6 - Core i7-3930K @ 4.2 GHz, 32GB & Geforce GTX 770
 
I know that Nvidia are overall better at everything, their CUDA cores are just kick-ass with Adobe Premiere and 3D softwares! I already answered to you (not specifically you but what you're saying) in my previous post. Adobe Premiere Pro may be more convenient for what I want but I wouldn't even consider Hackintosh if it wasn't mainly for Final Cut Pro X. I can get Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows 8 and gaming on Windows 8, this thread wouldn't even exist if I wasn't attached to FCPX and sadly, Apple prefer OpenCL over Cuda :(

Another question which is not linked to my graphic card: Does Hackintosh support BootCamp (which exist with Apple products). I'm not asking if its the best way to dual-boot (and its probably not), just have to know if BootCamp works :D
 
Which part of bootcamp? Most of bootcamp consists of drivers for Mac hardware. You should have better Windows drivers available for your motherboard. I loaded the bootcamp drivers for my apple keyboard, but that was all I needed. The part of bootcamp that allows you to choose which os to boot into does not work on my build. Bootcamp will also install quicktime and some iCloud helper software that does work.
 
The easy dual-boot and keyboard part. I'm going to buy a Logitech K810 (Mac edition) keyboard and I want it to work perfectly when I'm using Windows 8 ;) I thought Bootcamp was a dual-boot wizard setup, it isn't? Am I going to use another tool to dual-boot? (MultiBeast I think can do that, right?). Some people say that dual-booting on the same SSD with partitions is a bad idea.. Why? By the way, my motherboard will be the Gigabyte H87M-HD3 :3
 
HappyAshes said:
The easy dual-boot and keyboard part. I'm going to buy a Logitech K810 (Mac edition) keyboard and I want it to work perfectly when I'm using Windows 8 ;) I thought Bootcamp was a dual-boot wizard setup, it isn't? Am I going to use another tool to dual-boot? (MultiBeast I think can do that, right?). Some people say that dual-booting on the same SSD with partitions is a bad idea.. Why? By the way, my motherboard will be the Gigabyte H87M-HD3 :3
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Bootcamp does not work on a PC-Mac. No additional tools are needed to dual boot. See http://www.tonymacx86.com/multi-booting/96000-guide-dual-booting-mountain-lion-windows-8-a.html

The downside of having both OS X and Windows on same drive is maintenance issue, not operational issue.
 
The are unofficial hacked drivers that allow the GTX 780 Ti to work on Mavericks.

I can't wait to do the testing ;-)
 
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