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Adamantinus
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Hey guys, planning on building a PC pretty soon, got it into my head I might try to run Snow Leopard on it cause I prefer it to Windows 7. Done some reading, but would like some advice on which of the following parts may/may not work;

 

CPU: Intel Core i5 750

RAM: 2x 2GB DDR3 F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH (G.Skill Ripjaws)

GPU: ATI Radeon HD5830 1GB (Gigabyte, have heard there may not be drivers for this?)

Mobo: EVGA P55 LE

Optical: SATA DVR-218LBK (Pioneer)

HDD: A few various different SATA 7200rpm drives, and a planned future upgrade to a G.Skill Falcon II SSD.

 

Any advice on features which flatout won't work, will work, or will require patching would be very much appreciated. Links to install guides even moreso!

 

EDIT: I should add, I am hoping to overclock, will be multi booting with Win7 64 bit and also possibly Ubuntu, and run dual monitors.

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No go on the 5830, OS X does not have drivers for the 58x0 series cards (or anything newer than the 4890, for that matter). I don't know how well that motherboard is supported, you might go for a Gigabyte motherboard like the P55A-UD4. Definitely check out TonyMacX86, they have a lot of good information on Core i5 builds, and here's an installation method you might take a good look at.

 

Processor is great, RAM should probably be fine, as well as the optical drive and any HDDs you have. The most important parts are the motherboard, CPU and GPU. If you go with supported ones you'll be fine. If you really need good GPU performance I'd look at a GTX 260 or HD 4890 (I have the latter, and though a lot of people claim that ATI cards are hard to get working I had no problems of any kind. Guess it depends on your install method).

Adamantinus
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Figured as much. Changed my option to an Asus GTX 260, which I've read are confirmed working with QE/CI and OpenCL? However, I can't find any info on running dual monitors other than some guy who was complaining he couldn't get it working.

 

The other thing I forgot to mention is I have an Asus PCI Wifi G (Identifies as being Broadcom in Win Device Manager) card I'm planning on putting in the new machine, can't find much info on how that will go, any advice there? Looks like maybe AirPort picks up broadcom chipset cards okay?

 

By the way, you wouldn't happen to be the same Mackilroy from the EV B&B would you?

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I've heard of success with the GTX 260. I don't know about dual monitors – I have an 8800 GT lying around and there's a spare monitor I can borrow to see how it works. I'll let you know whenever I have some spare time – I'll be a bit busy the next couple of days.

 

My only suggestion there is to check out InsanelyMac's Wiki on supported hardware. There is one Asus PCIe card listed among the wireless devices, but I don't know if it's the same as yours. I have a D-Link DWA-125 on order which will arrive tomorrow – it's USB though.

 

That'd be me. Are you registered there or just a lurker?

Adamantinus
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I've heard of success with the GTX 260. I don't know about dual monitors – I have an 8800 GT lying around and there's a spare monitor I can borrow to see how it works. I'll let you know whenever I have some spare time – I'll be a bit busy the next couple of days.

 

My only suggestion there is to check out InsanelyMac's Wiki on supported hardware. There is one Asus PCIe card listed among the wireless devices, but I don't know if it's the same as yours. I have a D-Link DWA-125 on order which will arrive tomorrow – it's USB though.

 

That'd be me. Are you registered there or just a lurker?

 

Yeah I read good stuff on the GTX 260 working with QE/CI and OpenCL but absolutely nothing on dual monitors. I'll have to have another look into that at some point, let me know if you test yours out ;)

 

As for wifi, nah mine's not PCIe, it's just a PCI wifi g card. From what I've read I'm about 70% sure it'll work okay with Airport. Worst case scenario, it doesn't work and I go out and buy one that does, they're not exactly expensive.

 

And yeah I'm registered there, this is Steelix. :P

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