I'm just a little (a lot?) out of date on what's out there today and would really appreciate a little guidance or a direction to point me in. It's been a while since I bought a video card for a Hackintosh (an nVidia 970GTX for a different Hackintosh). Prefer not spending too much money obviously. the smaller the better, all else being equalħ. The heatsink on this card is a little bit taller which makes the card to occupy two slots in your PC case or on your motherboard. easy to install software for it (or already supported out of the box if possible) would be niceĦ. This graphics card is best suited for casual gaming, video editing, watching blu-ray movies, HTPC, running 4K monitor and normal day to day work at home and office. Ability to stream audio over it would be nice, though I currently run audio via Toslink output to my receiver.Ĥ. Current Spec HDMI output I assume is something I would want. I would also like the machine to be able to go to sleep and wake up successfully, which I believe is something that seems to cause some hackintoshes with videocards some trouble (my other hackintosh doesn't wake up from sleep so I never put it to sleep).ģ. I want to upgrade it with a video card with the following abilities:Ģ. I believe the best resolution it can run is 2560x1600. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P (LGA1155). It's a slightly older build, running onboard video, but it's not capable of running 4K/60. I run Plex on it, and I hit various web-based video services (Netflix, Amazon, Tennis Channel, ESPN, etc.). I have a hackintosh that I currently use as a HTPC. Also note that nVidia limits hardware encoding to a maximum of 2 streams.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide You would need a GTX 10 50 or above for that. This card would be a poor choice for a plex server that will be encoding hevc 4k content, because it does not have the hardware to do so.

It's the same scenario for skylake vs kabylake integrated graphics. For Netflix its most likely just because of Netflix's ridiculous DRM, which seems to arbitrarily limit 4k content to certain hardware.

it has the hardware to decode all current HEVC formats.

Will this be good enough for my purposes?ĭownloaded 4k videos will play just fine on this card. I can do without 4K Netflix as chromecast ultra and the smart TV has it.

I want to use this for downloaded 4K videos ranging from movies to camera footage on a Vizio M65 TV that has 'HDR'. Looks like there is a debate on whether this will work for all 4K content.ĤK downloaded video files are yes and no?

Cheap 4k video card for htpc