mstng66302 Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Alright so my desktop went out a bit ago after I put osx on it, it was a Dell Dimension 4600, Leopard worked except I attempted to install a driver for my graphics card, ATI HD2600, but from some third party vendor. anyways my computer died, never even booted up again so anyways onto my question, i really want a true to life iMac but for $1000 to $2000 it isnt worth it when i can pat about $1000 for the following and assemble a computer: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/se...D&body=MAIN the specs are as follows: EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard Intel c2Q Q6700 2.66HGz OEM OCZ SLI 4098MB PC6400 DDR2 EVGA Geforce 8800 GT 512MB PCIe w/Dual Link DVI Seagate Barracude 7200.11 500GB Hard Drive Lite-on DH-20A4H-08 Burner with Lightscribe I'm not too worried about the Processor but my main concern is the motherboard and graphics card, the GeForce 8800 GT is used in the Mac Pro but it isnt the EVGA version only the original NVIDIA version, if anyone got any or all of this hardware to work please let me know! Any insight, help, and advice in this matter and hardware set up would be very much appreciated! BTW I have the atkos and kalway DVDs, would either work with this setup or would i need a different DVD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121384-custom-computer-hardware-advice/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock42 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Im using the 8800gt from pny with out issue. you should know that some of the recent nvidia chips are bad. I use brazilmac and gfx efi strings to make the card work. I have no idea if sli will work correctly. I'd be cool if it does. funny, i thought barebone kits were, well, less then this. the only thing it lacks is the cpu fan. spend the money and get a good cooler. it's nice to have a mac with cores that run around room temperature. my G5 was never under 145f. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121384-custom-computer-hardware-advice/#findComment-859224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstng66302 Posted August 17, 2008 Author Share Posted August 17, 2008 Im using the 8800gt from pny with out issue. you should know that some of the recent nvidia chips are bad. I use brazilmac and gfx efi strings to make the card work. I have no idea if sli will work correctly. I'd be cool if it does. funny, i thought barebone kits were, well, less then this. the only thing it lacks is the cpu fan. spend the money and get a good cooler. it's nice to have a mac with cores that run around room temperature. my G5 was never under 145f. Thanks for the help! How do you like the 8800gt? Yea when I saw this kit I was really surprised, it seems like some good hardware for the price, and I'm definitely going to invest in a good fan for the cpu Now the only thing I have to do is find out if the motherboard will work with leopard and I should be ok Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121384-custom-computer-hardware-advice/#findComment-859714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
candykane Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 If your going to get some thing get intel chips / chipsets and stick with ddr2 800 its cheap and the more expencive stuff only give a few 2-5 % speed increase Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121384-custom-computer-hardware-advice/#findComment-864661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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