OK, first the good news, not sure where to post this, might try genious bar after as I need to know a few things....

Anywa, the Memory on the AMD64 was the OCZ Platinm CCD3 which they don't make anymore, its warrantied for life, the gigabyte K8NS is a 3 year I think (I have one more year) and the CPU is 3 years, still have one more year, either way, I'm still going to have to re-authourize many many instruments and plug ins.

Anyway, my HACK n Tosh is a stronger CPU, even though its not DUO CORE 2, its a D930 which I think is stronger than a AMD64 3200.

So here is the deal, I have in the AMD system, 4 PATA drives, on the HAC 2 Serial Drives.....plus of course two burners one of which is a dual layer....

So, the motherboard is a mini GTX D945GTP, it has two PCI slots, so, I could in theory add all 4 Hard drives as my audio device is FIREWIRE which works on both the hack and PC. but this would pretty much leave me no room for the burner, so I might need to get just another LARGE fast PATA drive and remove two of the drives......

It sounds like a lot of work but it will be worth it I think as it should be a faster windows machine anyway......plus the case I have will give the mini plenty of room to breathe and I have a 550 PSU.

So I am thinking of somehow having the 2nd HACKnTOSH drive REMAIN in the system at all times and use a removable SATA for the HACK and removable SATA for the WINDOWS drives, my questions, and this is where the genious part comes in, and advice neededs when I have some PCI cards in the windows setup and then boot to the HACK n TOSH, being NTFS, they should just look like they aren't there correct? My worry is that I don't want to destroy any PC songs, projects, etc......these are things I need to figure out while I wait for my RMA's.

Advice appreciated!

Thanks


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Oh and to make things interesting, I will be adding a nice GPU card for the windows machine as I have dual LCD's displays so I have a KVR switch so how would I use the DUAL Monitor when using windows, and then the on-board for OSX?

Is any of this even possible??

Thanks, just read the bench marks at toms hardware, the D930 (except for memory) is about 2X faster than the AMD...

Here´s my advice:

- Get an intel cpu.
- Get one with SSE3 support
- Get an intel chipset mobo.
- Get an Titan/Natit compatible VGA (check wiki)

Osx has never runned properly (or at least not as good as intel) with amd hardware.

What kind of PCI cards?
I'm not really sure what you're asking but I know certain PCI cards aren't supported by OSX and simply ignored by the system. So depending on which PCI cards you're referring to you will probably not even see them in OSX. But even in case they are recognised I still don't see the problem. How can the fact that PCI cards are present in the system destroy any data?