I have now built 3 successful hackintosh machines. Each of them I have used an RX580 graphics card. It’s cheap, buying used on eBay, it can drive two 4k monitors, and it works in the builds with no fuss. https://i.redd.it/mv4fzsh5qh631.png I’m not much of a gamer but I play a couple titles here and there. I had attempted to play a game and watch a movie on the other screen, but it locks the machine and shuts down. “ah well” I always said, a bit too much to ask of a graphics card in a hacked system. Fast forward to my latest build. Gigabyte z390 Designare Intel i9-9900k Sapphire Radeon RX580 Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4 2666 Samsung 970 EVO 1TB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 CORSAIR HYDRO Series H150i PRO RGB AIO Lian Li PC-O11DW Computer Case White 3 of be quiet! Silent Wings 3 120mm, BL064, Cooling Fan IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 USB Micro Adapter CORSAIR RMX White Series, RM750x, 750 Watt, 80+ Gold Certified, Fully Modular Power Supply- White Rosewill RNX-AC1900PCE, 802.11AC Dual Band AC1900 PCI Express WiFi Adapter/Wireless Adapter/Network Card The particular RX580 I had bought sounded like a prop aircraft preparing to take off whenever it was under load, it drove me a bit nutty. So, the solution I came up with was: - NZXT Kraken G12 - GPU Mounting Kit for Kraken X Series - NZXT Kraken X52 240mm - All-In-One RGB CPU Liquid Cooler - NZXT Internal USB Hub – (Only had one USB on the MB) Once installed the GPU Die temp was 28C at idle and around 40-50C when stress testing. But most of all it was QUIET. The surprise came when I started pushing it. Setting game graphics to higher settings… and yesterday, for the heck of it, I put up Netflix on one screen and a game on the other… No problem at all. …and the moral of the story. Cooling makes a lot bigger difference in day to day tasks than I had expected. [link] [comments] |
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