Tenative Hackintosh Specs

[Archipirata]

Hey, these are the specs of new computer I'm going to build and my first Hackintosh. This is more of a learning opertuinity for me than a goal of seting up a new computer imediately, so if it seems like a bit too much for a noob, that's okay, I want to struggle with this a bit. Still I don't want to make any huge errors or set myself up to FUBAR anything, so if you guys could look this over it would be greatly apreciated

 

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

Chipset

North Bridge: Intel® P45 Express Chipset

South Bridge: Intel® ICH10R

Memory

4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory

Dual channel memory architecture

Support for DDR2 1366+/1066/800/667 MHz memory modules

Audio

Realtek ALC889A codec

High Definition Audio

2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

Support for Dolby Home Theater

Support for S/PDIF In/Out

Support for CD In

LAN

2 x Realtek 8111C chips (10/100/1000 Mbit)

Support for Teaming

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8

(The PCIEx16 and PCIEx8 slots support ATI CrossFireX technology and conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

3 x PCI Express x1 slot

2 x PCI slots

Storage Interface

South Bridge:

6x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_0, SATA2_1, SATA2_2, SATA2_3, SATA2_4, SATA2_5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices

Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10

GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:

1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices

2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GSATA2_0, GSATA2_1) supporting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices

Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD

iTE IT8718 chip:

1 x floppy disk drive connector supporting up to 1 floppy disk drive

IEEE 1394a

T.I. TSB43AB23 chip

Up to 3 IEEE 1394a ports

(2 on the back panel, 1 via the IEEE 1394a bracket connected to the internal IEEE 1394a header)

USB

Integrated in the South Bridge

Up to 12 USB 2.0/1.1 ports

(8 on the back panel, 4 via the USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers)

Internal I/O Connectors

1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector

1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector

1 x floppy disk drive connector

1 x IDE connector

8 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors

1 x CPU fan header

2 x system fan headers

1 x power fan header

1 x front panel header

1 x front panel audio header

1 x CD In connector

1 x S/PDIF In header

1 x S/PDIF Out header

2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers

1 x IEEE 1394a header

1 x parallel port header

1 x serial port header

1 x power LED header

1 x chassis intrusion header

Back Panel Connectors

1 x PS/2 mouse port

1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port

1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector

1 x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector

8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

2 x IEEE 1394a ports

2 x RJ-45 ports

6 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line

I/O Controller

iTE IT8718 chip

H/W Monitoring

System voltage detection

CPU/System temperature detection

CPU/System/Power fan speed detection

CPU overheating warning

CPU/System/Power fan fail warning

CPU/System fan speed control

BIOS

2 x 8 Mbit flash

Use of licensed AWARD BIOS

Support for Dual BIOS

PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0b

 

Graphics Card: Two Crossfired Radeon HD4870x2 (manufacturer site very non-descriptive)

 

 

I'm not entirely sure if the Crossfire feature will work on OSx86, but I'll be dual-booting Windows 7. Also, that's all I'll post, because the other components aren't all that important, right? Thanks for clearing everything up.

[Zaap]

Hi,

There's no need to post the minutiae of motherboard details. Most Hackintosh builds are based around the motherboard model- so a board model generally either works or it doesn't.

 

In the case of the UD3P, it works fine- in fact, it's one of the most common Hackintosh motherboard types. There's an ongoing five-page (currently) thread on this board in this forum.

 

Things that won't work in a real Mac don't work in Hackintoshes either- so forget Crossfire. Multiple graphic cards can be made to drive a number of monitors though, just not in Crossfire or SLI mode.

 

Read through the thread here on the UD3P, and also this thread on anandtech that features an install kit and much discussion on the UD3P (and other working boards.)