Display and Graphics Card, which should I get?

[cfsist]

Hi Guys!
thanks to all the help from this forum and detailed Tonymacs instructions I have my Hackintosh up and running. I will be using it for office work mainly (emails, word processing, web). Also for some minor video editing (really minor). I have a Virtual Machine VMWare Fusion for Winwdows 7. I have to run some apps that only work in Windows.
So I don't need that much Graphics power.
At this moment, i use my LCD TV connected with HDMI as display. I have no graphics card yet.
I would like to get a 2560-by-1440 27inch Display and seem to find only ACD as a good option (Dell and other monitors with same resolution have an antiglare filter that make text look weird, at least thats what i have read).
So, any recommendations for an alternative for the ACD? If not, which Graphics card should I get that works fine with the ACD?
thanks in advance!

 

[hacman]

none other than ACD with thunderbolt and HD 6870 with mini display port

 

[humanoidal]

Text looks normal on an antiglare display... That's what I'd recommend.

And HD 6870

 

[cfsist]

The HD6870 can handle Thunderbolt? Please confirm. I thought it was only possible to use the ACD and not Thunderbolt, please confirm.

Also i found different HD6870 cards:

XFX AMD Radeon HD 6870 900M 1 GB DDR5 DUAL MINIDP HDMI DUAL DVI PCI-E Video Card (HD687AZHFC) http://www.amazon.com/XFX-Radeon-MINIDP ... 700&sr=8-2

SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE Graphics Card http://www.amazon.com/SAPPHIRE-Radeon-6 ... 833&sr=1-1

etc.

All of them are good? Are all compatible with ACD/thunderbolt?
thanks

 

[hacman]

nope only with mini display port ACD and XFX or SAPPHIRE with mini display port use this cable to connect

http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage. ... _Id=508255

 

[Naviblue]

Yikes, that's expensive for a cable...

will this work too?

http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ ... 1&format=2

 

[cfsist]

Sorry Hacman, still unclear on the which card to buy. I wan't to be 100% sure. The HD6870 recommended by Tonymac is the following:

GIGABYTE ATI Radeon HD6870 1GB DDR5 2DVI/HDMI/2x Mini DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card GV-R687OC-1GD

so, is this the one that works with ACD 27"?
thanks,
c

 

[Gordo74]

Yes it will.

 

[pbouwen]

I have the gigabyte 6870 that tony recommends, but it doesn't work with my new 27" acd

 

[lump]

XFX works with my 27" ACD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150521