PatrickMac Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Hey, After reading a lot in this forum I've decided to create my own Hackintosh. However, I am still wondering if I picked the right hardware! Motherboard: Gigabyte EP35-DS4 CPU: Intel Q6600 RAM: 4GB G.Skill DDR2-800 Graphic Card: Still unsure, thought of a GF 9400 or ATI HD 2600 Pro or XT I've read somewhere that the EP35-DS4 has problems with the SATA ports when 4GB Ram are installed. I looked furhter, but couldn't find more posts on that. That is really important for me, because I've got 6 HDDs and I'd like to install another one soon. What do you think of that configuration? Any recommendations for a low budget graphic card? Is it possible to install Leopard on that configuration with the vanilla kernel? Thanks a lot for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaap Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Hey, After reading a lot in this forum I've decided to create my own Hackintosh. However, I am still wondering if I picked the right hardware! Motherboard: Gigabyte EP35-DS4 CPU: Intel Q6600 RAM: 4GB G.Skill DDR2-800 Graphic Card: Still unsure, thought of a GF 9400 or ATI HD 2600 Pro or XT I've read somewhere that the EP35-DS4 has problems with the SATA ports when 4GB Ram are installed. I looked furhter, but couldn't find more posts on that. That is really important for me, because I've got 6 HDDs and I'd like to install another one soon. What do you think of that configuration? Any recommendations for a low budget graphic card? Is it possible to install Leopard on that configuration with the vanilla kernel? Thanks a lot for your help! I have this board, and while it works great for Hackintosh, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it over some of the newer models. It's been discontinued, so its hard to find a new one. There's no problem with the 6 yellow/orange SATA ports and I'm not sure there's any specific issue related to 4GB of RAM- I use 4GB and have 5 of the 6 yellow/orange SATA ports in use and everything works great. The main thing is the additional two purple SATA ports- they don't seem to work with OS X because they use a different controller. If you need more than 6 SATA drives in OSX, this is not the board to use. Graphic card- check the HCL wiki. I don't think the 9400 is supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JestaGeek Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Apparently you went ahead with the EP35-DS4... I like this one, personally, but my system case won't support more than 4 internal HDDs, so it's fine for my needs. My thought, when reading your post was that there are only 6 SATA connectors that seem to work with OS X (though it may be that there are new developments which add support for the other two, I don't know). In any case, I'd assume you also want an optical drive and I think that also needs to be SATA, so that leaves "only" 5 SATA ports available for use. Of course you could add a couple more SATA ports with a PCI card advertised with Mac-compatibility, perhaps. I see quite a few on NewEgg (pre-formatted search), at a variety of pricepoints. Hope you've worked out your graphic card (or display) issues and are now happy with your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madskillz Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 As I have a PC with a EVGA NForce 680i with Q6600 2,4Ghz @ 3,2GHz (Watercooled). 8GB RAM, Vista Ultimate 64bit, Geforce 8800GT (Overclocked). I guess I will by me the EP35-DS4. I think about buying a bgger CPU like the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2,67GHz @ 4,00Ghz. Will I have problems with that CPU and Leo4All?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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