Macarelo Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Hey, I´m about to build a hackintosh from scratch, the goal is to make it as stable as posible because its going to be for editing video and such. Here is what I´v been thinking: -Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L -Intel E7300 CPU -XFX 8500GT -4x2gb 800Mhz Kingston -Encore PCI firewire 400 card -and an Asus IDE lightscribe DVDRW drive (what would you recommend? IDE or SATA?) So, what do you think? will I have any trouble? Thanks in advance, Nick. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Looks pretty good. I had a bit of trouble with the 8500GT, but I'm sure you can get it working if you fiddle with the NVCap + stuff, which I never did... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/#findComment-986214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macarelo Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 Looks pretty good. I had a bit of trouble with the 8500GT, but I'm sure you can get it working if you fiddle with the NVCap + stuff, which I never did... I´ll go with the XFX 8600GT 512mb. Its only five dollars more, and is way better. As for the optical drive, do I go for a SATA or a PATA one? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/#findComment-986529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic George Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 SATA no question. In fact things seem to work better if you disable the PATA stuff on the MB, generally. As far as validation goes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvgMIerTXl4 How about that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/#findComment-986550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Yea go with the 8600, definitely sata drives, and think about a better processor in the future. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/#findComment-986654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macarelo Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 Yea go with the 8600, definitely sata drives, and think about a better processor in the future. Thanks guys! I´m actually more worried about the mobo than the CPU. I´m not so much into this and I want it to be a clean install. Lets hope iDeneb 1.3 will work out fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/#findComment-986852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 For that board you'll probably have better success with a retail method. You can run mostly vanilla everything. Look into boot-132. Lot of people have that board here shouldn't be too hard to get things worked out. Everything but audio should work OOB, try that iAKTOS 10.5.5i if you jump into a distro. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/#findComment-986860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macarelo Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 Thanks! I´ve been looking into boot 132 but I cant seem to find what I need... can you point me to the right direction please? All I´ve found for now is a bootloader made for P35 mobos... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139229-about-to-buy-rig-need-validation-from-you-guys/#findComment-988830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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