Replacing AMD Radeon 6850 with NVIDIA GTA 650 Ti

[Thij]

Not completely sure if this is the right place to post this.


Hello everyone!

My main and only Hackintosh machine uses an AMD Radeon 6850 card as GPU (for the other specs, check profile on the left). It runs on OSX 10.10 Yosemite. I updated to El Capitan once but AMD cards currently have sleep issues on 10.11 that prevent the Hackintosh to go into sleep mode or wake up from sleep properly. This is quite a big issue for me because I use the sleep mode very often, so I went back to Yosemite.

However, and 'old' PC which I have laying around here uses an NVIDIA GTX 650 Ti 1GB.

Is it worth it to swap the cards, or will it most likely only cause more problems than it solves?

I hope some of you can give me their view.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers, Thij.

 

[Adrian B]

It would be worth trying the GTX 650 Ti with El Capitan if you must have working sleep on the newest version of OS X.

You should be able to run with out any injection enabled for any graphics. Your card should run out of the box with the standard OS X drivers.

Regarding your HD 6850 - keep an eye on this thread:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capitan-desktop-support/170781-no-display-usb-after-wake-10-11-a.html

 

[Thij]

Thank you

 

[Adrian B]

If for any reason you have issues running the GTX 650 Ti card, then refer to the following thread:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/183617-read-me-first-graphics-setup-troubleshooting.html

 

[Thij]

I get passed the Apple logo with the loading bar. After that, I have a black screen.

Just had time to swap the cards. Will keep you guys updated.

Edit: It boots with nv_disable=1. Without, it won't. I 'black screen' actually is no signal to my monitor. Because after the apple logo disappeared, my monitor comes up with the 'No Signal' banner.

Got some problems troubleshooting. Never used a Nvidia card before.

Do I have to install webdrivers for my GTX 650 Ti?