My First Hackintosh Build And I'm Slightly Confused

[RoyaRandom]

I'm planning to build my first Hackintosh and I am unsure of what components to buy. Here are the list of several components. Please verify or give recommendations on which components are best for a Hackintosh. Thanks

 

Motherboard

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128337 (GA-EP35-DS3L)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128345 (GA-EP45-DS3L)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128344 (GA-EP45-DS3R)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128351 (GA-EP45C-DS3R)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...82E16813128348R (GA-EP45T-DS3R)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...82E16813128089R (GA-EX38-DS4)

 

Processor

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115017 (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600)

 

Memory

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231184 (2 x 2GB)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820104058 (4 x 1GB)

 

Cases

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811129021 (Antec 900 Black Steel ATX)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811146047 (NZXT TEMPEST Crafted Series CS-NT-TEM-B Black Steel)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811119158 (COOLER MASTER Stacker 810 RC-810-KWN1-GP Black Aluminum Bezel)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811146029 (NZXT Zero Black/Silver Aluminum ATX)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811129154 ( Antec Performance One P180 Silver cold rolled steel ATX)

 

Graphic Card

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814143119 (GeForce 8800 GTS)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130318 (GeForce 8800 GT)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130376 (GeForce 9800 GTX+)

 

Cooling System

 

I don't know which one to pick, I am planning to overclock my Q6600 to around 3.6GHz-3.8GHz. I've heard that Thermaltake Ultra Extreme is great, but newegg does not have them, I will have to get them elsewhere. Is there any other recommendations?

 

Power Supply

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817339002 (hec ZEPHYR HEC-750DR-AT 750W Continuous @ 40°C ATX12V V2.2)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817341002 (OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817159058 ( COOLMAX CUG-700B 700W ATX 12V( V.2.2) SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Modular Active PFC Power Supply)

 

Optical Drive

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827151171 (SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 22X DVD Burner)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827136149

 

Hard Drive

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136218 ( Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive)

 

Please verify these or recommend. Thanks.

 

 

[MjP99]

Well I have that exact Samsung drive from newegg working flawlessly in 10.5.5 retail. Nice and quiet and burns great using Toast 9. (Sata 22x DVD writer for $22? You can't beat that)

 

Also, I have the 9800GTX+ working just flawlessly also. Keep in mind that with this card you need to have 2 6-pin PCI-E power connections. It comes with adapters, just in case. I love the card as I use it for gaming in Vista, but some say that you can overclock the G92 8800GTS and get the same performance. Keep that in mind as prices are falling on the 8-series cards.

 

Have fun and good luck with the build!

 

M

[i*C]

Motherboards - stay with EP35

Processor - OK

Memory - OK

Case - Personal preference

Graphics Card - should be ok

DVD - Samsung is ok

Hard Drive - OK

 

 

[peach-os]

EP-45 works also perfect

[RoyaRandom]

I'm most confused on which motherboard to buy. I checked out the wiki and it seems that GA-EP35-DS4, GA-EP35-DS3, & GA-EP35-DS3R works very well. I'm not sure about the P45s since i have seen mixed reviews about this board. What do you guys recommend?

[peach-os]

I'm most confused on which motherboard to buy. I checked out the wiki and it seems that GA-EP35-DS4, GA-EP35-DS3, & GA-EP35-DS3R works very well. I'm not sure about the P45s since i have seen mixed reviews about this board. What do you guys recommend?

 

those having problems with the GA 45´s used patched versions. make a retail install and you won´t have many problems. installed two machines meanwhile on the GA-EP45-DS3.except sound what needed a patch everything worked ootb.here is a small help I wrote for that board

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry883119

[RoyaRandom]

those having problems with the GA 45´s used patched versions. make a retail install and you won´t have many problems. installed two machines meanwhile on the GA-EP45-DS3.except sound what needed a patch everything worked ootb.here is a small help I wrote for that board

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry883119

 

Oh I see. Will it still be compatible with Vanilla kernel? Also, can I install it on a whole GUID hard drive without partitions? Thanks.

[peach-os]

Oh I see. Will it still be compatible with Vanilla kernel? Also, can I install it on a whole GUID hard drive without partitions? Thanks.

with retail install you would install vanilla and you should keep it. the less partitions you have the less complicated.I wouldn´t install leo on anything else than GUID

[RoyaRandom]

I decided to get the P35, since I am still having doubts about the P45's stability and reliabilities. Therefore, which P35 should I get, DS3P/DS3R/DS4/etc?