w4r10ck Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Hi all. I have a fairly old desktop computer (circa 2002). Here are the specs: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz (Socket 478, supports the MMX, SSE and SSE2 instruction sets) Asus P4BGL-MX/533 mainboard (i845GL, ICH4, Brookdale-G graphics) Realtek AC '97 audio chip IDE hard disks and optical drives (2 each) Realtek RTL8101L and Via Rhine III Ethernet controllers PCI IDE/SATA combo card (based on the Via VT6421A chip, probably unsupported on Mac OS X) 1280 MB DDR-333 RAM (will soon be upgraded to 2048 MB) Does my machine stand a chance to be able to run OS X smoothly? If yes, could someone kindly recommend me a suitable build (I am thinking of 10.5.4 (9e25) Retail or iDeneb 10.5.5)... Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142750-does-my-machine-stand-a-chance-to-be-able-to-run-os-x-smoothly/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donw35 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I don't think you will end up with much of a Hackintosh if on the outside chance you get it running at all. I sudgest Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD and see if you can even boot to the installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142750-does-my-machine-stand-a-chance-to-be-able-to-run-os-x-smoothly/#findComment-1012806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintenno Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 pretty unlikely no accelerated graphics because 845 isnt supported sse2 patch needed if it works, it will run pretty slow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142750-does-my-machine-stand-a-chance-to-be-able-to-run-os-x-smoothly/#findComment-1012848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Your computer is too old. If you really need OS X, try installing tiger instead. SSE2 will cause a massive performance penalty because of the SSE3 emulation and OS X uses SSE3 a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142750-does-my-machine-stand-a-chance-to-be-able-to-run-os-x-smoothly/#findComment-1012924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
w4r10ck Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 @Mr. Hurt If it's gotta be Tiger, then Tiger it will be. SSE2 will cause a massive performance penalty because of the SSE3 emulation and OS X uses SSE3 a lot. What about Tiger (which comes within the ambit of OS X?) I was hoping at least my machine would be able to run Tiger decently. Do you think the JaS 10.4.8 (Intel/AMD SSE2/3 + PPF1) build would be a good choice? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142750-does-my-machine-stand-a-chance-to-be-able-to-run-os-x-smoothly/#findComment-1013394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerman259 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 I feel your pain; I have an older MSI machine I wanted to put OSX86 on and it's similar to yours: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/netpc/n...odel=Hermes_650 Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz, same specs as yours. No SSE3. I did just get Leopard on there and it does run VERY poorly and it won't even let me display the "About This Mac" dialog, it just crashes the finder and reloads it :-/ For your info, if you were curious, I used ToH kernel from iATKOS 5i. I don't usually give up easy on this sort of thing, but I am just going to put OpenSuSE on that machine and call it a day I think. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142750-does-my-machine-stand-a-chance-to-be-able-to-run-os-x-smoothly/#findComment-1014335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 I've found the latest Leopard works ok on my old 1.6GHz SSE2 laptop. Seems similar to your specs, but yours sound better, so you should get the same result. I've used the voodoo kernel which has allowed updating to 10.5.6 with all available updates done and plays video fine with QT and on Safari. Some jerkiness with full HD video or full screen QT or you tube high quality and full screen, but good enough to watch. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142750-does-my-machine-stand-a-chance-to-be-able-to-run-os-x-smoothly/#findComment-1014397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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