Help. Quad Core, 680i Chipset, 8800 GTX...

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Hey all - goingto look into throwing Leopard on my machine. i have a Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 8GB of RAM working on an evga 680i (SLI... I think like NF68-A1 board is the model) with a evga 8800 GTX 768mb video card. I have two SATA 500gb driver and an SATA 1000GB drive. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Do I need to install to an IDE drive? Thanks!

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Hey all - goingto look into throwing Leopard on my machine. i have a Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 8GB of RAM working on an evga 680i (SLI... I think like NF68-A1 board is the model) with a evga 8800 GTX 768mb video card. I have two SATA 500gb driver and an SATA 1000GB drive. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Do I need to install to an IDE drive? Thanks!

 

Hi there,

 

Have you checked out the excellent threads by Mysticus C* for Intel CPUs and nForce chipset MOBOs:http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=87901

and http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=109102

 

If you follow Mysticus C*'s guides carefully they should get you going OK...his guides and updater packages have got me up to running 10.5.4 on a 650i MOBO with a Q6600.....

 

A key point will be whether or not you have a SATA or PATA DVDRW as the former may cause problems.....But if you need further clarification on each step read the Kalyway 10.5.2 (IMHO the preferred choice because of giving no SUIDs errors) and iATKOSv2.0i 10.5.2 install guides in my blog......other forum readers and members have posted saying that it helped them install OS X successfully....the following posts here by sQuadron, which show that iATKOS v2.0i was successfully installed using my blog guide and is running on a ASUS striker exteme mother board nFORCE 680i.....whereas he had problems with leo4all v3......