TheRx Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 Never owned a Mac in my life. Mostly because of the price. Additionally, I live in a country, where Mac's are even more expensive, than elsewhere. After using Leopard on my old laptop for couple of months with WiFi, sound issues and no QE/CI, I decided to finally build my first hackintosh. I read this forum and picked out "supported" hardware to get. However, as my experience with this stuff isn't very high, I would like to hear your opinions. Here is what I'm planning to buy this week: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz, FSB1333, 6MB RAM: OCZ (2x1GB), DDR2, 1066MHz Kit Of 2, CL5-5-5-15, SLI Ready HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250 Gb, SATA II, 7200rpm, 16Mb GPU: MSI NX8800GT OC 660MHz / 1900MHz, 512MB, 256bit btw - Can someone explain what does "E0, C0 stepping" means for CPU's? btw - What power supply should I get for this hardware? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122609-building-my-first-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 Looks good. Get a decent power supply, a good brand that has enough amperes on the 12V line. A good brand 500W or so is a good PSU. Steppings are just specific releases of a CPU. In the lifetime of a CPU, it often gets minor updates, which are called steppings. Newer steppings can have slightly better characteristics, because they have improvements. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122609-building-my-first-hackintosh/#findComment-867570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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