devilhunter Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Hello, I'm a new user on insanelymac and have been reading the topics here for a while. As a guy who is both a PC technician and an Apple user for more than 15 years i have some technical know-how and some frustrations at Apple for not releasing a "mini-mac-pro", so i'd like to build a hackintosh form parts i'll buy within the next few weeks; and I'm planning to sell my Powermac G5. I still have some questions that i can't get answered or heaven't found searching the forums. here are the specs of the PC i'd like to build: Mainboard: ASUS P35 P5K3 Deluxe CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (4x 2833/12MB/1333FSB) Ram: 8192 MB DDR3 Corsair (4x 2048MB) Video: NVIDIA GeForce NX8800GT 512MB MSI i'll add the Drives at a later date when everything is working... my questions for the unofficial mac are: -Do VMWARE Fusion and Parallels Desktop work? -Does Virtualisation with VT-x work? -Are 8GB DDR3 Memory supported by Leopard? (the board supports up to 8GB) -Do i need to install from a SATA DVD Drive, or is a IDE Drive supported as well? -Are all 4 CPU cores recognized and do they work? i think the rest i can manage by reading the forum (configuration & install) thanks and hats off to the OSx86 community Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/131035-new-user-and-some-technical-questions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
realityiswhere Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 -Do VMWARE Fusion and Parallels Desktop work?-Does Virtualisation with VT-x work? -Are 8GB DDR3 Memory supported by Leopard? (the board supports up to 8GB) -Do i need to install from a SATA DVD Drive, or is a IDE Drive supported as well? -Are all 4 CPU cores recognized and do they work? -Vmware/Parallels = Yes, easiest with vanilla systems. -VT-x - Yes -8GB - Yes -DVD - Jmicron chipsets have difficulty with IDE dvd drives, so if you have a jmicron chipset, make sure you've received a patch for it ( chameleon DOT osx86 DOT hu) -Cores - Yes, my q6600 all four cores are recognized perfectly, bonus with multi-core cpu's (intel) is that they can run vanilla kernel (and voodoo kernel) so you should have no compatibility issues. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/131035-new-user-and-some-technical-questions/#findComment-928987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilhunter Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 thanks for the quick reply, realityiswhere. I'll try to use the Chameleon method for the installation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/131035-new-user-and-some-technical-questions/#findComment-929006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineRaven Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Hello, I'm a new user on insanelymac and have been reading the topics here for a while. As a guy who is both a PC technician and an Apple user for more than 15 years i have some technical know-how and some frustrations at Apple for not releasing a "mini-mac-pro", so i'd like to build a hackintosh form parts i'll buy within the next few weeks; and I'm planning to sell my Powermac G5. I still have some questions that i can't get answered or heaven't found searching the forums. here are the specs of the PC i'd like to build: Mainboard: ASUS P35 P5K3 Deluxe CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (4x 2833/12MB/1333FSB) Ram: 8192 MB DDR3 Corsair (4x 2048MB) Video: NVIDIA GeForce NX8800GT 512MB MSI i'll add the Drives at a later date when everything is working... my questions for the unofficial mac are: -Do VMWARE Fusion and Parallels Desktop work? -Does Virtualisation with VT-x work? -Are 8GB DDR3 Memory supported by Leopard? (the board supports up to 8GB) -Do i need to install from a SATA DVD Drive, or is a IDE Drive supported as well? -Are all 4 CPU cores recognized and do they work? i think the rest i can manage by reading the forum (configuration & install) thanks and hats off to the OSx86 community I'm the same shoes as you are, i'm a pc tech as well and mac user since 1986. I've also built custom built hack macs. I don't think these logic board above works but i ruggust you to check out HCL and do search from there. Parcelle's Desktop will work as i've done it with windows 2k, XP, vista. Works will. Cheers AP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/131035-new-user-and-some-technical-questions/#findComment-929108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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