funkmasta Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 So I'm going to try a build of my own to hopefully accompany my MBP. So far, I've bought Gigabye GA-G31-ES2l http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...pk=ga-g31m-es2l Intel E5200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819116072 These are supposed to be good value combos, especially with overclocking in mind and very OSX86 compatible. Now I'm looking at graphics cards. Possibilities include: 8500 GT, 9600 GSO. Any comments on these cards? They're both very reasonably priced, but I'm not sure how their compatibility would be. As far as other things like cases, power supply, cooling, best RAM for overclocking, etc., I'm looking for advice as well. All help is appreciated, thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
folliclemiracle Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I've just built a system with that processor and motherboard combo. It's running really nicely. I can't really help you with the graphics card but personally I am using an ASUS 9400GT which is a bit slower than what you're suggesting but it seems to work OK (display sleep seems not to, but I think it is possible). I just picked my retailer and then tried to find people saying they had got a particular card that they sold working. Since you have a real mac you might find it easiest to install the OS onto the hackintosh's drive (in an external caddy) then run UInstaller to install stuff, make it bootable etc. This is what I did and it was more or less a case of popping the drive in the new system and pressing *on* (actually I cloned my existing mac's drive with carbon copy cloner as I was passing on the Mac). http://leopardsoup.pbworks.com/es2l_welcome has some useful drivery things and UInstaller instructions for this board. I bought a pretty cheap ASUS case, it's ok, but I think I should have spent the extra £30 for a slightly better one. There is some good info out there on power supplies, all I would recommend is that you get an efficient one! Best of luck with this, you will end up with a pretty snappy system no doubt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkmasta Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 Thanks for the input! Can anyone else provide some more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan_Man Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Try to upgrade your processor, duel core isn't vanilla compatible. Try going for a Core 2 Duo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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