Buying a Dedicated GPU for your Monterey, Ventura or Sonoma Hackintosh

[hardcorefs]

Just to add....
It's critical to ensure the GPU works with any games you might want to play.
It seems even if the GPU seems to be fully compatible with the OSX version, I have found Graphical corruption.

Missing /un-renderable areas. (bit of an issue, when you can see thru areas of the game and any other players.)
Sort of like an inbuilt "cheat" mode, and one that is completely undetectable.

 

[stator]

That's if one is a gamer. If I was, the macos platform would not be not one of my choices.

 

[hardcorefs]

Not really, there are multiple uses for a GPU that would be affected, it's just that games show the problems quickly.
We have seem the same issues on 3D & tech drawings.
Previously we put together such systems for design work, only to have them fail at some level..
Why buy Apple Mn... when an intel can out perform them right?

 

[Jamesmykil]

The video guide says to avoid XFX branded cards.

Does the xfx rx 580 work?

 

[Feartech]

Does the xfx rx 580 work?

try it or avoid it

 

[trs96]

Does the xfx rx 580 work?

The main problem (with any brand 580) is that the vBIOS was modded for crypto mining. If that's the case it won't work until you reflash the original vBIOS. So if you're buying used, ask the seller how it was used. Hopefully they'll be honest.

 

[trs96]

Interesting to see that Amazon recommends a hackintosh friendly bundle for new Z690 and Z790 builds. The Corsair RAM and WD SN770 should work fine with this newer hardware used as a dual boot or just macOS Sonoma system.

This is the best value proposition i.e. the best amount of RAM and SSD storage (for most use cases) to go with your WX 4100.