urgent GTX 980 TI Hybrid - Which OS for full potential?

[Akat4]

Hi all,

Building a hackintosh to run premiere pro and resolve (video editing applications).

I'm sitting with a room full of boxes and just built my hackintosh up. It's got a 980ti, however I read on the latest driver post that the sierra drivers are the only ones that allow for full use of the card. Is this accurate, would these work with el capitan?

Would it be worth it to start with a sierra install or is el capitan likely to give me less trouble?

Thanks for your time. Been going back and forth on this for a while.

For kicks, rest of the build is below.

1 x ($319.99) Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80662I76700K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 530
$319.99

1 x ($254.99) Ballistix Sport LT 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model BLS4K16G4D240FSC
$254.99

1 x ($198.99) GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-UD5 TH LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
$198.99

1 x ($119.99) CORSAIR RM Series RM750 750W ATX12V v2.31 and EPS 2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC 80 Plus Gold RoHS WEEE EuP Modular ATX12V & EPS12V Power Supply Power Supply
$119.99

1 x ($74.99) CORSAIR Hydro Series H75 CW-9060015-WW Water / Liquid CPU Cooler 120 MM
$74.99

1 x ($38.72) TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter, 2.4 GHz 450 Mbps / 5 GHz 450 Mbps, IEEE 802.1a/b/g/n, WEP / WPA / WPA2, Plug & Play in Windows 8
$38.72

1 x ($13.00) 1 Year Extended Replacement Coverage Plan For Item#N82E16813128839
$13.00

1 x ($6.49) Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G - OEM
$6.49

1 x (-$122.00) DISCOUNT FOR PROMOTION CODE
-$12.0

 

[Adrian B]

Install El Capitan. If you want to experiment with early beta software, then remember that other applications may not be up to speed for another few months. Driver maturity is good and El Capitan is stable.

 

[Akat4]

Thank you very much, I went that route.

I was confused by the message on the driver page, but it looks like I've gotten full functionality out of the 980ti with el capitan and the nvidia drivers.