- Joined
- Aug 20, 2011
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- customac
- CPU
- corei7
- Graphics
- nvidia GTX 550 ti
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Ok so I have a stable hackintosh build. Took a bit of work to get everything running but it finally does. Problem is I took a machine I had already laying around that needed a clean and got that working since most of its hardware I knew already worked. Thing is it had a Radeon HD 6870 2 gig card in it. Not a bad card by any means, but its not one with drivers for mac OS X. Now OS X does support it, but ATI doesn't support it with full drivers. So while I get graphics acceleration and such I can't help but wonder if I would get more out of a card that was actually supported to run under OS X by the manufacturer. Now I happen to have 2 old (well I say old, but they are about the same age as the 6870) GTX 550 ti's each with a gig of gddr 5 ram. My question to the community is this: Will I see any difference (gaming or other wise) from switching over to the GTX 550's? According to CPU boss the two cards (nvidia, and ATI) are pretty close in specs as such if there might be a performance benefit out of running one with specialized drivers it might be worth it. Anyway I'm rambling now, so if anyone has the answer I'll be paying attention.