vpetrovic said:
Hi
I'm planning to change my Gainward GTS450 GS with ATI, because I hate suddenly freezing of my system.
Which ATI or maybe again nVidia, is the best solution considering my other components?
Is it a good time to changing GPU?
Thanks
I personally don't like ATI because most of their cards do not work properly in MAYA. I always had Viewport and draw distance issues with them. I think Macintosh is making a big mistake by moving to them.
IMO, get the
$99 GTX260 deal going on at Tiger Direct! It's also the Core 216 version and it's overclocked which puts the card on par with the older standard GTX280. I've had no issues at all with mine, installation was absolutely flawless as I just slapped it in the motherboard attached the power supply and turned the computer on.
Go back through this thread and look at the GPU scores of other cards compared to mine and other GTX260 users. Remember I'm only running this card with an E5400 CPU.
IMO, unless you really give a crap about DX11, for a hackintosh it's the easiest and simplest solution if you have a big enough case and PSU to support it. To each his own though, I use a Zotac Amp! GTX460 in my Windows 7 machine and don't plan on changing it anytime soon.
Notable Specifications
BFG GeForce GTX 260 896MD GDDR3 Overclocked Ed.
Memory Interface:
448-bit
Stream Processors:
216
Memory Bandwidth:
111.9GB/sec.
APIs: DirectX 10/OpenGL 2.1/CUDA
Multi-GPU Support: 3-Way SLI[/code]