perk137 Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Hi Folks, Getting ready to join the community with my first hackintosh build. I'm trying to follow Digital_Dreamer's guide, and I think I have picked out hardware that will allow for minimal issues. Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 GPU: ATI HD4580 - Gigabyte GV-R485OC-1GH CPU: Intel Core i7 920 PSU: Rosewill 530W RG530-S12 Mem: OCZ 3x2GB DDR3 1600 OCZ3G1600LV6GK HD: Western Digital 500GB WD5000AADS DVD: Samsung DVD+RW SH-S223C Blue: D-Link USB Bluetooth DBT-120 WiFi: Belkin USB Wireless G F5D7050 Case: Silverstone GD01S-R HTPC Case Here are my goals for the build: - OSX 10.6.2 - No overclocking - WoW-compatible - HD 1080 video with Itunes/Hulu/Etc. - Around $1000 Some specific additional thoughts: - I haven't seen many i7 systems using the ATI 4850, but I'm thinking this is just because most people have the cash for a better card. Does this sound right? - I tried to pick Bluetooth / Wireless cards that are easily compatible with 10.6.2, but if anyone has had trouble with these, I'd love to hear about it. - Never used a HTPC case before, but I assume once you open it up it's pretty much the same. Thought I would post my shopping list for feedback prior to ordering parts; any thoughts, comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackilroy Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 From what I've seen more people use NVIDIA cards because they're supposedly easier to get working during the install, but afterwards using an ATI card doesn't give them any trouble. I know Cindori was running a 4890 in his hackintosh, and I've read of a few other people running 4870s and such. No time to look up links for you though, sorry. Your hardware choices look pretty good - motherboard, CPU, RAM, HD - I don't know about the Bluetooth or WiFi though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1425198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quentinhapsburg Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 From what I've seen more people use NVIDIA cards because they're supposedly easier to get working during the install, but afterwards using an ATI card doesn't give them any trouble. I know Cindori was running a 4890 in his hackintosh, and I've read of a few other people running 4870s and such. No time to look up links for you though, sorry. Your hardware choices look pretty good - motherboard, CPU, RAM, HD - I don't know about the Bluetooth or WiFi though. Hi, I'm about to build my first Hackintosh with a pretty similar spec: i7 920 GA-EX58-UD5 MSI ATI R4850 512MB DDR3 DDR3 1333 4x2gb Ram LG 22X DVD±RW Antec Three Hundred Coolermaster 650W eXtreme Duo I haven't ordered any of the parts yet but I have spare a MSI R4850 graphics card from another system. The osx86 wiki compatibility list says that the Palit and Sapphire versions of the ATI4850 will run but there is no mention of the MSI. Will this card work with my build? It is reported to be pretty much the same card as the Sapphire version but with more efficient cooling. If the MSI won't work then could anyone suggest a half decent cheap video card . There seem to be so many choices and I really couldn't decide. I plan to use the computer for Pro Tools therefore I don't need anything too monstrous as I doubt that PT is very GPU intensive. Any comments on the rest of the build? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1425388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
perk137 Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 My guess, quentinhapsburg, is that you and I are going to have a very similar journey... Since they write drivers for chipsets, and not specific card-manufacturers, I think one 4850 is pretty similar to the next. Now there will be different performance, but that's another story. Also, the Core i7 / GA-EX58-UD5 is designed to have RAM in sets of 3 if I understand it correctly, so I'm not exactly sure what throwing in an extra SIMM to get 8 GB of RAM will do to your system. And thanks for the comments, Mackilroy; I've seen Cindori's thread and tried to model much of it off of his build. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1425611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quentinhapsburg Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 My guess, quentinhapsburg, is that you and I are going to have a very similar journey... Since they write drivers for chipsets, and not specific card-manufacturers, I think one 4850 is pretty similar to the next. Now there will be different performance, but that's another story. Also, the Core i7 / GA-EX58-UD5 is designed to have RAM in sets of 3 if I understand it correctly, so I'm not exactly sure what throwing in an extra SIMM to get 8 GB of RAM will do to your system. And thanks for the comments, Mackilroy; I've seen Cindori's thread and tried to model much of it off of his build. Thanks for your reply. I think I'll give the MSI 4850 a go. Not much of a financial risk as I have it lying around as a spare. I'm glad you mentioned that the Mobo is best suited to RAM in sets of 3. I'll start with 6gb for the time being. DDR3 RAM is really expensive so that'll save me £50 or so!. I reckon I'll get started on the build in a couple of weeks time. Just trying to do as much planning as possible for the time being. Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1425711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
perk137 Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 Ok, since no-one has pointed out any major flaws, I'm going to assume I didn't make any huge mistakes. I'm going to start ordering parts and then give the DD script a try. Wish me luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1426792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keypox Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 only thing i dont like about that board is how old and outdated it is for the price. For less you can get a updated GA board with usb 3.0. Though no specific guides for them but google turned up some success. For example this board, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128423 i have read people have got installed but no networking sound...??? I also want to build i7, but want usb 3.0 as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1427170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackilroy Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Only thing is keypox, OS X doesn't support SATA 3 or USB 3. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1427254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quentinhapsburg Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 I wouldn't mind the financial saving that you would make in choosing the UD3R over the UD5 but the sheer weight of forum support, information and reported build success for the UD5 weighs heavily in its favour. If I were to choose the UD3R, would the USB3 ports simply function as USB2 in OSX or would they not work at all? The only other disadvantage of the UD3R is a lower RAM capacity but you could quite happily buy 4x2gb chips and then realistically hope that memory would be cheap enough if you ever needed to buy 4gb chips in the future. Something to think about. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1427529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackilroy Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Yes, they'll work as USB2 ports. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1427718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
perk137 Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 Parts arrived; didn't change anything from the list at the top. Now for the excitement... Let the fun begin! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1433257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 good build Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/212520-core-i7-box-for-wow/#findComment-1433266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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