iKal Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Hey everyone .... i just wanted to know if i could install Mac OS X Leopard (complete working edition) on this pc specs: Motherboard Specs Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME Intel X58/ICH10R/rev.1.0 Socket 1366/PCI-E2.0x 16/ATX 6 DDR3/8-CH HD Audio/1394 2GbE LAN/10 SATA 3Gb/s/12 USB2.0 Rest Of PC Specs Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (6.1, Build 7600) Bios - v6.00PG Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz 12GB (6x2GB) Corsair Memory DDR3 1333MHz Core i7 Support 750 Watts PSU (cant remember brand) 2x 250GB Internal Western Digital HDD (Both are connected via SATA) LG Blu-Ray, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW Drive (Also connected via SATA) 1GB ATI Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 or 4850 (cant remember which of the two it is) would there be any Mac OS X compatible for those specs? and also would i be able to install mac os x on my second internal hdd which is just being used to keep my files in it (videos, music etc)... all the help possible would be much appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203667-help-installing-mac-os-x-leopard-ga-ex58-extreme/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil43 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 This really depends upon your Hackintosh experience level. If this is your first venture into hacks, then you need to read up on the subject here and at OSX86 wiki. Also, your expectations need to be set. Almost every hack has a problem or weakness someplace. Expectation that you are going to dual boot between Win7 and OSX 10.x without resetting BIOS parameters needs to be established and that may dictate the order to install and what release to install. The current state of community support here on this web site is the best ever and there are some great install guides. If this is new to you, I would suggest that you hack a machine that you don't need to use on a daily basis. Once you are experienced then putting Leopard or Snow Leopard on the machine that you describe is fairly trivial. neil Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203667-help-installing-mac-os-x-leopard-ga-ex58-extreme/#findComment-1367729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKal Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 yeah i figured someone would say something like that xD.... damn, i think ill have to test it out on an older pc first then who knows... if that goes good... i might even stick to that one .. but i still would like to know more about doing an install on this pc seeing as its super fast Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203667-help-installing-mac-os-x-leopard-ga-ex58-extreme/#findComment-1367738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil43 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 One way to get started is to invest in "HDD Mobile Racks" so that your hard drive(s) are quick change without having to open up your chassis. For example, look at Kingwin KF-91-BK, available for about $20 each. You could move your Win7 boot drive to one of these trays. You would shutdown the system, swap in your project drive and go as far as you can (on you hack). Then shutdown and restore you Win7 by swapping drives and rebooting (may have to reset the BIOS also). But you really need to read a lot of the web pages for base line information. Armed with knowledge and the desire you can get your feet wet. You can do it if you spend the time to learn how the OS is designed to work and how the community has resolved many issues. If however you just want to play with OSX, then you should pruchase an Apple go from there. neil Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203667-help-installing-mac-os-x-leopard-ga-ex58-extreme/#findComment-1367747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKal Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Thanks for the speedy reply ... i would get an apple macbook pro if i could but they wont give it to me on finance cause im a Full Time Student and its too much to get in one go xD.. so the only thing im left with is to install mac os x on an older pc that i can just reboot back to windows xp if anything goes wrong Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203667-help-installing-mac-os-x-leopard-ga-ex58-extreme/#findComment-1367986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Sachin Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 i too have the EX58 EXTREME MOBO and commencing a restart issue with snow leo 10.6.2 as i boot the darwin on this mobo it gets restarted and i m unable to run the snow leo pls help pls help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203667-help-installing-mac-os-x-leopard-ga-ex58-extreme/#findComment-1471144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh602 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 hi there, does anyone know how to install the new snow leopard 10.6.3 on pc? i am new to this forum and all of this and i am getting confused with all the different ways of installing SL. i want to dual boot SL 10.6.3 with my windows 7. my system is intel i7 920 D0 2.6 ghz overclocked to 4.2ghz gigabyte EX58 EXTREME (rev 1.0 F12 BIOS) 3gb 1333 DDR3 corsair ram OC to 1800 500gb int HD 1TB ext HD i have an iso of snow leopard 10.6.3 retail but i can't burn it as i dont have any dual layer discs. only thing i have to use is my external if it can be booted off that. can someone please help me out... thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203667-help-installing-mac-os-x-leopard-ga-ex58-extreme/#findComment-1481665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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