benjio Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hi all. Forgive me as I am new to this. I have been reading up but I'm still very confused about all of this. Here is the deal: I am a system builder and heve been using Vista/Ubuntu forever. I have a mid-end AMD based computer and FRIED my processor! Instead of getting a new AMD processor, I am thinking about getting this board: DFI LANPARTY DK X38-T2RB and this processor: Core 2 Duo E8400. I want to keep the rest of my existing hardware. (upgrading RAM and possibly video later) What I have: Dual MSI 8600GTS cards in SLI (I realize I will not be able to use SLI but only one card is fine) NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 4 GB RAM ADQVE1A16K 2 Western digital 36GB raptors (I would like to use in RAID but no big if not) 1 160GB Seagate SATA (actually came out of an old G4) 1 Lite-on generic DVD Burner on IDE Logitech S-510 Wireless KB and mouse (on one USB port) I also want to be able to connect to my monitor with DVI at 1680 x 1050 resolution. I suppose I would like to use vanilla kernal and EFI and I'm quite sure this hardware will support that. So here are my questions: 1: What is the best way to install? Should I start with 10.5.2 and upgrade from there or start out at 10.5.6? 2: Kalyway? Leo4all? Others? Which install method would be the most straight-forward? 3: What are the advantages/disadvantages of using vanilla kernel and EFI? Will I be able to dual-boot to vista with EFI? How to set up EFI? 4: Will i need to patch audio? LAN? USB? Will 5.1 surround analog work? 5: Best way to patch/install Video drivers? Full Resolution/Hardware acceleration? 6: Will my IDE CD-ROM drive work? 7: Any good, thorough install guides? Patch guides? 8: Anyone have any good/bad experience with any of this hardware? 9: Any useful information that I might need to know. Thanks to everyone for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146060-im-confused/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hi all. Forgive me as I am new to this. I have been reading up but I'm still very confused about all of this. Here is the deal: I am a system builder and heve been using Vista/Ubuntu forever. I have a mid-end AMD based computer and FRIED my processor! Instead of getting a new AMD processor, I am thinking about getting this board: DFI LANPARTY DK X38-T2RB and this processor: Core 2 Duo E8400. I want to keep the rest of my existing hardware. (upgrading RAM and possibly video later)What I have: Dual MSI 8600GTS cards in SLI (I realize I will not be able to use SLI but only one card is fine) NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 4 GB RAM ADQVE1A16K 2 Western digital 36GB raptors (I would like to use in RAID but no big if not) 1 160GB Seagate SATA (actually came out of an old G4) 1 Lite-on generic DVD Burner on IDE Logitech S-510 Wireless KB and mouse (on one USB port) I also want to be able to connect to my monitor with DVI at 1680 x 1050 resolution. I suppose I would like to use vanilla kernal and EFI and I'm quite sure this hardware will support that. So here are my questions: 1: What is the best way to install? Should I start with 10.5.2 and upgrade from there or start out at 10.5.6? 2: Kalyway? Leo4all? Others? Which install method would be the most straight-forward? 3: What are the advantages/disadvantages of using vanilla kernel and EFI? Will I be able to dual-boot to vista with EFI? How to set up EFI? 4: Will i need to patch audio? LAN? USB? Will 5.1 surround analog work? 5: Best way to patch/install Video drivers? Full Resolution/Hardware acceleration? 6: Will my IDE CD-ROM drive work? 7: Any good, thorough install guides? Patch guides? 8: Anyone have any good/bad experience with any of this hardware? 9: Any useful information that I might need to know. Thanks to everyone for your help! 1.10.5.6 2.IPC or XxX 10.5.6 3.Yes and use Voodookernel 4.maybe 5.Efi strings 6.No you need a DVD but IDE is fines 7.search for your motherboard and see if there are any 8.N/a 9.you might not get everything to work and be careful with installing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146060-im-confused/#findComment-1036574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetracer Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Don't mean to bump an older thread but i can confirm that The Dfi X38 t2rb works with IPC 10.5.6 then updating to 10.5.8 through apple updater but running the ipc 10.5.6 install cd again to reinstall patches for graphics etc. the only thing i have yet to get working is audio. Alc885 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146060-im-confused/#findComment-1396428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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