Building a "Hack Pro"

[Matt K.]

As some of you may know, I've been having tons of computer trouble recently - so much so that I'm ready to throw this aging AMD machine out the window! I'm definitely getting a new Inspiron 15 in a few months, which I intend to Hackintosh as soon as I get it, but after that I'm going to turn my attention back to my desktop.

 

That said, I've been doing a bit of early shopping around Newegg and found that I could build a fairly high-end system (for my needs at least) for around $450. I was looking at components based on those included in the actual Mac Pro, with the intent of building a computer that would run OS X as seamlessly as possible. I'll list my current list of choices below ... can anyone verify that this will all work? In particular, I'd like to know if there are any special kexts I might need beforehand or anything, what options I should select during install, etc. Thanks!

 

THE $62 CASE: HEC Black 0.8mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 585W Power Supply

THE $85 MOTHERBOARD: ECS P45T-AZR LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

THE $69 PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium E2200 Allendale 2.2GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

THE $75 VIDEO CARD: EVGA GeForce 9600 Low Power 512MB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

THE $52 MEMORY: WINTEC AMPX 2GB 240-pin PC2 6400 DDR2 800 SDRAM (2)

THE $50 HARD DRIVE: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0GB/s 3.5" Internal Drive

THE $33 SUPERDRIVE: Pioneer Black 2MB Cache SATA CD/DVD Burner LabelFlash Support

THE $13 NETWORK ADAPTER: AZiO PCI 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Adapter