Hi guys!

I am super keen to get OSX up and running on my machine. However my current CPU does not allow this.

CPU: Athlon XP 2600+
MB: GIGABYTE 7NN400
RAM: 1GB
HD: 120GB (IDE)
VIDEO: XFX 6600GT

I am thinking about selling my CPU/MOBO and buying something new that will support OSX. Since I just recently got my 6600GT I am not willing to depart with it just yet. So does anyone know of a MOBO that will support AGP (for my 6600GT in Windows - and hopefully OSX) yet still has the 915/945 or equivalent chipset to somewhat "guarentee" an OSX installation. What about those 'hybrid' AGP slots that can sorta have backwards compatibility for users not wnating to get PCI yet?

Also the MOBO should have the GMA900/950 integrated video so ensure video support in case the 6600GT cannot operate under OSX.

Thanks.

The Asrock P4dual-915gl is probably your best bet. It seems to be a very popular board among people here.

Cheers mate.

I had a look at the board and it does sounds very attractive for the job however my XFX 6600GT is not on the suport list.

Could anyone verify that my video card would work or not? Eg. Does anyone have these specs themeselves and has got it to work?

define work.

The 6600 like all NVidia cards will "work", but you will not get full performance. You should check out the MacVidia site/forums or do a search here for more info.

You will get video. You won't get full power. Using the MacVidia drivers though, you will get different resolutions. Which is a start.

Depends on what you want to do. On my laptop I have a Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB that doesn't get me QE/CI, but with some work it has gotten me decent OpenGL and does what I need it to do perfectly.

My desktop hacktel has a FX5200 NVidia 256MB card (AGP). OpenGL doesn't work all that well, but at least I can change the resolution. (also no QE/CI)