System Compatibility - Yosemite

[martareis]

I need your thoughts on this setup:

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4GHz
GIGABYTE Z77X-UP5 TH
1TB Western Digital 7200rpm (Win 8.1)
Samsung 840 Evo SSD Series 120GB SATA3 (OS X)
Asus GTX 980 4GB GDDR5
G.Skill Ares 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz
Cooler Master GX - 750W 80 PLUS Bronze
Cooler Master 690 II Advanced (USB 3)


Is the system compatible with Yosemite and/or Mavericks?

I think I might have problems enabling "Thunderbolt" and getting my graphic card to work.

Yosemite now supports maxwell based graphic cards through Nvidia driver 343.01 but I rather use a stable version as my operative system.

Any advice is welcome.

 

[Adrian B]

I need your thoughts on this setup:

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4GHz
GIGABYTE Z77X-UP5 TH
1TB Western Digital 7200rpm (Win 8.1)
Samsung 840 Evo SSD Series 120GB SATA3 (OS X)
Asus GTX 980 4GB GDDR5
G.Skill Ares 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz
Cooler Master GX - 750W 80 PLUS Bronze
Cooler Master 690 II Advanced (USB 3)

Is the system compatible with Yosemite and/or Mavericks?

Yes it is compatible with Mavericks (Not available from the App Store at present) and with Yosemite

I think I might have problems enabling "Thunderbolt" and getting my graphic card to work.

Thunderbolt is enabled by a mix of the correct UEFI/BIOS settings and installing the drivers in Windows to activate the Thunderbolt on the motherboard. You can probably do the installation using the HD3000 graphics on your processor (use a digital connection - not VGA) and then add the GPU once Yosemite is installed and the NVIDIA drivers downloaded.

Yosemite now supports maxwell based graphic cards through Nvidia driver 343.01 but I rather use a stable version as my operative system.

Things do look to be pretty stable - if you have an older card to use in the short term then that would be a possibility. You could use the HD3000 on Yosemite and the GTX 980 with Windows.