GTX 960 graphics cards???

[khriswithak]

I'm in need of a "blower-style" graphics card because of the cooling methods for my case (this type of card blows all the air out the exhaust in the slots). I don't really need a super powerful graphics card but the cheapest one I could find in the buyer's guide was the EVGA GTX 970. That is a bit over-budget and too powerful for my needs.

I've been able to find a few GTX 960 GPUs in a blower-style design which are closer to my budget but are they compatible with a hackintosh?



MSI GTX 960 - Blower Style card
PNY GTX 960 - Blower Style Card

Will any of these work OOB or after installing the nVidia Web Drivers? Does anyone have any experience with either of these cards? Recommend any?

 

[Going Bald]

Either one of those should work with the proper web drivers installed.

 

[zangadao]

I have this MSI GTX 960 and it is silent and cold. A good choice!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B011S6GUCQ/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

 

[khriswithak]

Awesome! Thanks for your replies!

 

[VMoradian]

I just bought the Gigabyte GTX 960 (4gb gaming edition), and it's working in Yosemite but my Cinebench scores are only 38fps. I was getting more than 42fps with my old AMD Radeon HD 6870. Any thoughts?

Also, I was wondering if there is a way to make this card work in Mountain Lion 10.8.5. I've installed the web drivers, but the system hangs at boot. I get an "unknown chipset" error.

Thank you.

My build:
ASUS p8z68-v lx mobo
Gigabyte GTX 960 (4gb)
16g ram
7200rpm Seagate boot drive

 

[Fl0r!an]

Nope, Maxwell needs Yosemite or El Capitan.

Cinebench is useless, benchmark scores are not meaningful at all.
(Technical reason: Even the Cinebench GPU benchmark is CPU-limited on almost every machine. Nvidia drivers usually have a slightly higher CPU overhead, so AMD will perform better. Obviously this only applies to this benchmark, not gaming).

 

[VMoradian]

Nope, Maxwell needs Yosemite or El Capitan.

Cinebench is useless, benchmark scores are not meaningful at all.
(Technical reason: Even the Cinebench GPU benchmark is CPU-limited on almost every machine. Nvidia drivers usually have a slightly higher CPU overhead, so AMD will perform better. Obviously this only applies to this benchmark, not gaming).

Thanks for the info. Very useful. I see what you mean by the Cinebench GPU benchmark. But I was still expecting to get better frame rates with this card as opposed to the old Radeon HD. It is supposed to be a far better card in every way, except the memory bit which is 128 bit as opposed to 256. I just hope I didn't spend $200 on a card that won't give me a better performance than my old Radeon.