Max Archer Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Ok, my thread was too vague, I've been looking at stuff and I think I have a setup. I'd appreciate any feedback. This computer will be for photo editing on OSX, and gaming on Win7. CPU: Core i7 930 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R RAM: 6GB Corsair Dominator 1600 VGA: EVGA GTS 250 1GB PSU: Corsair 850TX OS: Snow Leopard 10.6 + Windows 7 Professional HDD: 1TB Sata III WD Caviar Does this sound right? Should I look at a 9800 GT instead of the GTS 250? I'm considering just having CyberPower build it, the price difference is actually pretty small, and I hear a lot of horror stories about installing Win7 on a SATA drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackilroy Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 The GTS 250 is newer, I'd stick with that. Overall it looks like a very good system, and installing Windows is easy – I dual-boot 10.6.3 and Win7 64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will1384 Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Ok, my thread was too vague, I've been looking at stuff and I think I have a setup. I'd appreciate any feedback. This computer will be for photo editing on OSX, and gaming on Win7. CPU: Core i7 930 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R RAM: 6GB Corsair Dominator 1600 VGA: EVGA GTS 250 1GB PSU: Corsair 850TX OS: Snow Leopard 10.6 + Windows 7 Professional HDD: 1TB Sata III WD Caviar Does this sound right? Should I look at a 9800 GT instead of the GTS 250? I'm considering just having CyberPower build it, the price difference is actually pretty small, and I hear a lot of horror stories about installing Win7 on a SATA drive. An i7 seams like overkill for light gaming, I am guessing you want the 6GB of ram for the image editing, you might want to have each OS on its own drive, Windows 7 works just fine on SATA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Archer Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 So there's no messing around with having to slipstream SATA drivers onto a ripped install disk or anything with Win7? The RAM is for both gaming and photo editing. Same goes for the i7, it should help with running PS and LR3 at the same time and working on multiple 12MB+ RAW files, along with even larger TIFF files. On top of that, when I say "light" gaming, I mean that I'm not pushing the limits of hardware or playing competitively, but I'm still playing some very processor-intensive stuff, like the STALKER series, and I'd like to be able to continue to play new games when they come out. I was considering putting Windows on a separate drive, wasn't sure how Boot Camp handled it. (I'm on a late '08 MBP with both OSes on the internal drive right now.) 500GB drives are just about dirt cheap, and should be plenty for my Windows needs, so I'll probably add one on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will1384 Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 So there's no messing around with having to slipstream SATA drivers onto a ripped install disk or anything with Win7? I have not had any problems, there are two things to try if you run into problems Put the drivers on a thumbdrive And if you have to install in IDE mode, there is a registry edit that can be done, you edit the registry, shutdown, restart and change the SATA mode to AHCI in BIOS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackilroy Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 No slipstreaming required. All I did when I installed Windows was remove every drive except for the Windows disk, insert my Windows 7 DVD, install Windows, and then put my other hard drives back in. You can't use (and don't need) Boot Camp on a hackintosh. But just as an FYI on my old Mac Pro I ran Win7 and 10.6 on separate hard drives, and Boot Camp handled them easily – it's easier than using two partitions on one hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hack2root Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Ok, my thread was too vague, I've been looking at stuff and I think I have a setup. I'd appreciate any feedback. This computer will be for photo editing on OSX, and gaming on Win7. CPU: Core i7 930 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R RAM: 6GB Corsair Dominator 1600 VGA: EVGA GTS 250 1GB PSU: Corsair 850TX OS: Snow Leopard 10.6 + Windows 7 Professional HDD: 1TB Sata III WD Caviar Does this sound right? Should I look at a 9800 GT instead of the GTS 250? I'm considering just having CyberPower build it, the price difference is actually pretty small, and I hear a lot of horror stories about installing Win7 on a SATA drive. Hi, all! My avaliable HW config for starting programming/iPhone development is CPU: Intel i7 940 MB: Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R VGA: GeForce 8600 GT or ATI 5750 RAM: 12 GB SAMSUNG DDR3 HDD: SATA III 500 WD + SATA III 500 WD (looking for RAID0 ???) Despite some Windows experience on windows platform, I'm still almost understand nothing in Macs. Do i still will have some troubles installing ShowLeopard on clean system/hdd wth latest bios updatad, and turned integrated controllers JMicron - OFF / Intel - ON for the raid0? BIOS options is AHCI / ACPI / Enchanced Speed Step Technology. Am I able to Install OSX 10.6.4 with minimum effort and once? Do i need to buy some other VIDEO cards? Can anyone tried installig OSX on similar systems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Techie456 Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Everything looks good. I would probably recommend getting a SSD for installing Windows, and OSX on the desktop. An SSD has better performance when you're video editing or in your case photo editing. Then just keep the regular hard drive for extra space. Just my thought: I would probably up the ram to 8GB if the option is available. SSD recommendation: OWC EXTREME PRO RE SSD http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20Wor...ing/SSDMXRE050/ If you do get an SSD I would probably recommend this: OWC multi mount http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20Wor...puting/MM35T25/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xHighAlert Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 The GTS 250 -IS- a 9800 chip. It's just rebranded. Only, it's better than the GT. GTS 250 = 9800 GTX+ Which is what I'm running and let me tell you it works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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