evane Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I am building a system with the sole purpose of being a hackintosh I have been studying this forum for quite sometime and following the wiki. I believe I have a good setup that will work with minimal fuss here is what I have thus far My New Rig My first question is I really think I would like to splurge and go up to the 9800GT EVGA 9800GT 512mb I can't seem to find a solid answer will I be able to use EFIStudio and get it working correctly. Wiki seems inconclusive to me and my search skills for this one seem to be failing me. Next I plan to use the Boot-132 method with Chameleon EFI. Documented here This guide and most I have read document this process using pre 10.5.4 retail install media will I have any issues using the 10.5.6 latest and greatest install media? Lastly from what I ready the LS8v15 package should cover most of the driver I need for motherboard (EP45-DS3L) save for the GFX string for EFIStudio and the Psystar Realtek R1000 Driver for my nic. My question is everything I have read shows documentation for installing ls8 packs when doing the retail install from a existing leopard does the install script work when it is a boot-132 method install? Hopefully I have provided enought information to get my questions answered thanks folks... *make a few quick edits* Well was doing a little more stumbling and this thread states being that the 9800gt is basically a re-branded 8800gt the 8800 GFX strings should work perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153655-new-build-have-some-quick-questions-before-i-order/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
milk242 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I just bought the EVGA 9800 GT 512MB and it should arrive tomorrow. I'll be replacing a X1600 Pro that did not output the correct resolution I needed and I didn't want to use switchresx to correct it. I'll first try to generate efi strings for this graphics card and if that doesn't work i'll try the Nvidia 9 series Driver Installer v2 from aqua mac and if that doesn't work then I'll try nvinject 2.0. I'm pretty sure one of those methods would work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153655-new-build-have-some-quick-questions-before-i-order/#findComment-1084204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evane Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 I just bought the EVGA 9800 GT 512MB and it should arrive tomorrow. I'll be replacing a X1600 Pro that did not output the correct resolution I needed and I didn't want to use switchresx to correct it. I'll first try to generate efi strings for this graphics card and if that doesn't work i'll try the Nvidia 9 series Driver Installer v2 from aqua mac and if that doesn't work then I'll try nvinject 2.0. I'm pretty sure one of those methods would work. That is what I was thinking, I think I will be safe I guess worst case I could return it and drop down to a different card. My biggest thing is weather the retail install method will work with a straight 10.5.6 install dvd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153655-new-build-have-some-quick-questions-before-i-order/#findComment-1084517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evane Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Anyone have any assistance in regards to the Boot-132 method with a 10.5.6 retail dvd?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153655-new-build-have-some-quick-questions-before-i-order/#findComment-1084809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_webi Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=128274&hl= Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153655-new-build-have-some-quick-questions-before-i-order/#findComment-1084820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
milk242 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 So I got my EVGA 9800 GT with 512mb to work using this link. No tearing, both dvi ports work. http://aquamac.proboards106.com/index.cgi?...&thread=509 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153655-new-build-have-some-quick-questions-before-i-order/#findComment-1084928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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