Hi,
I'm currently using Chameleon-2.0-RC4-r684 (AsereBLN) with Snow Leopard 10.6.2. Dual booting with Windows 7.
I didn't bother upgrading to 10.6.3 because I need to replace my ATI Radeon HD 3870 which has become obsolete in Macland, because it cannot support OpenCL in hardware.
It could support QE/CI, but apparently these 2 somehow do not work on the PC version (they do on the Mac version of the card).
I narrowed down my selection to NVidia GTX 260, 275, and 285.
(I also checked in the ati.c and nvidia.c source files to see which card models were supported.)
I also looked at GTS 250 cards, which should be fine for my purposes, but they seem to come with only 1 DVI-I port, and 1 D-Sub port.
Speedwise the HD 3870 is still OK for what I'm using it for, so all 3 GPU types will do me good.
I therefore have a preference for the GTX 260, but of the bunch these are the hardest to get, even second-hand.
What is important to me is that the card should :
work OOTB with "GraphicsEnabler=Yes"
have 2 fully working DVI-I ports (dual 30" monitor support or my old analogues; also see below)
support QE
support CI
support OpenCL
have reasonable future proof driver support in OS X
Basically provide a super snappy desktop experience without graphics glitches
A fully working DVI-I port to me means :
Dual-link DVI upto 2560x1600, and analogue upto 2048x1536. So both the digital and analogue signals should work.
I'm mainly programming, browsing, emailing, digitally drawing, digitally clouring and painting. I do not play games on the desktop.
The usual stuff.
I'm just not sure about the dual monitor support working in Snow Leopard.
I hope someone has a dual monitor setup with either of these cards, and can make a redcommendation.
Or, tell me which of these 3 cards will not support something on my shortlist.
Thanks,
Robert