AHTuttle Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 I'm building my first hackingtosh. I have iDeneb 1.1 and it seems to be promising from trying it on my Sony TX laptop. So I want to build a desktop from scratch. Priorities: ease of install, compatibility now with ideneb 1.1 and with future OSX86 development, quiet, cheap, reasonably powerful. I'd like up to 8GB ram (start with 4GB), Intel core 2 proc (probably Q6600), nvidia 8800ish graphics (cool or at least quiet hopefully). I'd like audio, network and hopefully firewire to work with a minimum of fuss if not out of the box. Shutdown and sleep is important, stable is a must etc. What mobo and video card do you think will fit those requirements well? I just want to start with a good, solid, trouble free foundation. Thanks in advance for helping a total newb. Is there a simple list of the classic, well supported motherboards? Or a filterable list? Just going through the hardware lists is a little frustrating. Very hard to tell what looks promising with my requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 8800gt starts off around $110USD. Pretty good price for performance imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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