ATI Raedeon HD 6870 seen as RaedeonHD NI40 on 10.6.8

[grtitan]

Lol

On the other hand, this test is useless, is not a reliable benchmark for GPU capabilities.

I mean, you and me have the same card and look how crazy is the difference between our scores.

 

[akasurreal]

Lol

On the other hand, this test is useless, is not a reliable benchmark for CPU capabilities.

I mean, you and me have the same card and look how crazy is the difference between our scores.

Yeah, it hits CPU way too much. Know of a better GPU test for OSX?

 

[grtitan]

Not that I know.

Maybe Xbench? But Xbench fails in some of the test in my Lion install.

 

[richtea]

I have 3 monitors and I'm thinking about getting this card.

Would I be able to use one monitor in the DVI slot and the other two directly into the two Mini Display Ports?

 

[akasurreal]

I have 3 monitors and I'm thinking about getting this card.

Would I be able to use one monitor in the DVI slot and the other two directly into the two Mini Display Ports?

Yes, I was also able to use 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 1 DP as well. You just can't use the second DVI port.

 

[akasurreal]

Don't forget, you will most likely need "active" DP adapters like this one, unless your monitor has DP ports:
http://www.amazon.com/Accell-B087B-006B ... 127&sr=8-5

The "passive" ones from Apple surprisingly did seem to work for me, but also was disabling some of my other ports in the process which was no good for running 3 monitors.

 

[richtea]

I have 3 monitors and I'm thinking about getting this card.

Would I be able to use one monitor in the DVI slot and the other two directly into the two Mini Display Ports?

Yes, I was also able to use 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 1 DP as well. You just can't use the second DVI port.

Ok thanks. Seems a safe card to get, will report back when it arrives in a week.

 

[richtea]

Could someone confirm that this mini displayport to display port cable would work with hackintosh?

I'm wanting to plug directly into the minidisplay ports from my displayport monitor.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3m-s...-male-mini-dp-to-male-dp-white-gold-connector

 

[akasurreal]

Could someone confirm that this mini displayport to display port cable would work with hackintosh?

I'm wanting to plug directly into the minidisplay ports from my displayport monitor.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3m-s...-male-mini-dp-to-male-dp-white-gold-connector

Yes this works fine.

 

[CrackingTosh]

Same issue as others.
I have managed to install 10.6.8, get audio working and get network functionality following a user guide. I even managed to run the userDSTD and reboot. Woo!

My card too was only appearing as n140 with Gigabyte 6870. I then found post suggesting to change my PCIRootUID to 1.

I restarted and then got black screen of death after white apple load window. Its seems like the system boots but I lose my screen functionality, im using the top DVI-I port with apple DVI to vga converter. Is this something anyone else has resolved. My card is in PCI slot 16x (first slot on board).

Does the card being seen as n140 actually matter? im confused as there is conflicting info on this post. Some say yes others no.

Experience so far:

Please help!


Here's my full spec:

mobo: GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 rev 1.0 - bios version F8
graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon Series HD 6870 (GV-R6870C-1GD)
ram: Corsair 16 GB vengeance blue (only 4GB in for setup)
SDD: 120 GB Agility
HDD - 1TB Western Digital Barracuda