Most Powerful Hackintosh Graphics Card

[dmw16]

About a year back I started to assemble the parts for a hackintosh/gaming computer. My plan was to dual boot OSX and Windows.

However, it turned out none of the video cards I wanted were supported at the time, so the machine became a gaming only rig.

So my first question is, have things changed? What is the most powerful gaming card I can buy that will be supported by OSX?

My other question is, what is the difference between dual booting and using boot camp as far as performance goes?

Thanks.

 

[Kaido]

I think the Nvidia GTX 285 & ATI 4890 cards are supported, check out www.netkas.org for more info.

Boot Camp isn't supported on a Hackintosh since it doesn't have real EFI in place of the BIOS. Dual-booting off a single drive is very difficult, I don't recommend it. Easiest way is to buy 2 hard drives and put Mac on one, Windows o the other.

 

[dmw16]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I think the Nvidia GTX 285 & ATI 4890 cards are supported, check out www.netkas.org for more info.

Boot Camp isn't supported on a Hackintosh since it doesn't have real EFI in place of the BIOS. Dual-booting off a single drive is very difficult, I don't recommend it. Easiest way is to buy 2 hard drives and put Mac on one, Windows o the other.

Thanks. And just switch the boot order between the two?

Is there a good how-to on the install process?

 

[TheStu]

If it is a Hackintosh, you aren't using BootCamp, you are merely dual booting.

BootCamp is a GUI partition editor (and i think) modifications to the EFI to allow BIOS emulation. It is not emulating the OS, or virtualizing it, it is a dual boot method that Intel Macs use.

So, no difference at all.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: dmw16

Originally posted by: Kaido
I think the Nvidia GTX 285 & ATI 4890 cards are supported, check out www.netkas.org for more info.

Boot Camp isn't supported on a Hackintosh since it doesn't have real EFI in place of the BIOS. Dual-booting off a single drive is very difficult, I don't recommend it. Easiest way is to buy 2 hard drives and put Mac on one, Windows o the other.

Thanks. And just switch the boot order between the two?

Is there a good how-to on the install process?

With Chameleon 2.0 (beta), it auto-detects your drives (and OS) and lets you choose (via icon) which OS to boot. Just use that, and set your Hackintosh drive to boot first. Real easy 🙂

 

[KeypoX]

yep top of the line nvidia are the most powerful. I have gtx 260 running dual screens, bit of work but outlined here http://www.insanelymac.com/for...x.php?showtopic=113489

I have found dual booting to be fairily easy once you get the hang of it. Gotta mess up a couple times i think lol. Learn about active partitions, repairing windows install ( to fix boot).

I have found that installing windows first is best. Then create partition in windows for mac. Install mac, and then I used to repair windows, then use windows boot manager (chain0 method worked best for me). But now with chameleon 2, i use that.

However, I do have two drives 1TB for windows and everything windows. And 320GB (linux, windows, mac). Default bios goes straight to windows, boot to 320GB gives pretty little boot screen that i can choice any OS including windows on 1TB.

I have found this guide to have great info. http://www.insanelymac.com/for...ex.php?showtopic=39253 for dual booting, with 1 drive. Learn the concepts there and you are good to go for multibooting. Wish there was something similar for 10.6...