semola88 Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Hello everybody, i'm new to this forum, and i'm new to the hackintosh's world. In a couple of weeks i'm going to build my first hackintosh. Listed below are the components I would like to buy. Do you think they are all 100% working and compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6.3. (retail dvd) and further upgradings? Is the Gigabyte mobo listed below the best solution? Does OSX support blu-ray unit? My budget is 1500$ CPU: Intel i7 930 2,8Ghz MB: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel RAM: 6x2GB CORSAIR 1333Mhz DDR3 XMS3 PC 10666 HD: 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA HD: WD Raptor 150GB 10.000RPM SATA PS: Corsair CMPSU 850HXEU 850W CASE: Antec Sonata Elite CPUC: Noctua NH-D14 VIDEO: 2xGTS250 1GB each DVD/B-R: BD-RW LG BH10LS30 SATA LAN: TP-Link TL-WN951N Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Simon Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 I finished my hackintosh and out of the box, and even using kexts the wi-fi card does not work...still working on this... Using a ethernet cable with onboard LAN for now. I have similar specs... Newegg: PSU:Antec PSU 550W Power Supply $70.35-$20 mail-in rebate=$50.35 CASE/DVD:Antec 900 Case+Free DVD Combo Drive (Slickdeals post) $84.42-$20 mail-in rebate=$64.42 MOTHERBOARD: Openbox GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 X58 RTL - OEM $221.11 Microcenter: CPU Core i7-930 Processor Boxed RAM 6GB DDR3, 1600MHz 3x240 DIMM, Unbuffered, 9-9-9-24, XMS3 GPU GeForce 9800GT 1024MB Cost for these three $543.72-$50 mail-in rebate=$493.72 Amazon: CPU FAN Noctua for Intel CPU Cooler NH-U12P SE2 $65.95 HDD Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache $129.99 SOFTWARE/FAN COMPOUND OSx Snow Leopard - DVD, Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound, 3.5 Grams $37.99 Amazon [actually Buy.com] MONITOR ASUS VH235T-P 23-Inch Wide LCD Monitor $184.86 $221.11 MOBO -- open box item from newegg $84.42 Case w/ free DVD drive [$20 rebate] -- newegg $70.35 PSU [$20 rebate] -- newegg $206.61 RAM [$20 rebate] - Tracking #15794895 -- micro center $119.61 GPU [$30 rebate] -- micro center $217.50 CPU -- micro center $194.57 23" LCD -- amazon $184.86 23" LCD -- amazon $102.78 3x fan filters $2.49 each -- amazon 2x fans $8.05 each -- amazon 640gb faster WD hard drive $79.21 -- amazon $31.61 WiFi card [need to return -$20] -- amazon $29 Mac OS X -- amazon $129.99 2TB Green HD -- amazon $65.95 Noctua awesome heat sink -- amazon grand total spent.... $1658.36 ------------------------- potential cost return: $110 Total is about: $1,548.36 Hello everybody, i'm new to this forum, and i'm new to the hackintosh's world. In a couple of weeks i'm going to build my first hackintosh. Listed below are the components I would like to buy. Do you think they are all 100% working and compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6.3. (retail dvd) and further upgradings? Is the Gigabyte mobo listed below the best solution? Does OSX support blu-ray unit? My budget is 1500$ CPU: Intel i7 930 2,8Ghz MB: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel RAM: 6x2GB CORSAIR 1333Mhz DDR3 XMS3 PC 10666 HD: 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA HD: WD Raptor 150GB 10.000RPM SATA PS: Corsair CMPSU 850HXEU 850W CASE: Antec Sonata Elite CPUC: Noctua NH-D14 VIDEO: 2xGTS250 1GB each DVD/B-R: BD-RW LG BH10LS30 SATA LAN: TP-Link TL-WN951N Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semola88 Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 and does the intel 930 work well? did you install from snow leopard dvd 10.6.3 retail version? which software did you use? thanks a lot! for the wifi, you can use a wifi-PCI adapter, such as the ASUS WL 138g V2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Simon Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Yup. My processor works very well, so does the RAM. Sometime in the near future for me, both need to be adjusted with manual "overclock" settings in the bios since I noticed that the BIOS for the motherboard likes to play it safe and put the settings low - the RAM is set at 1079 MHz speed but its capable of 1600MHz. The processor at 2.83 GHz but definitely can go up in speed as well. The O/S works great, no problems booting up, shutting down, putting to sleep and waking up. I just noticed another problem this morning though, (i think) my video card is buggy. I tried playing modern warfare 2 and I noticed multiple problems. First I noticed a weird interlacing or vertical sync issue where the display has a "horizontal bend" in the display that moves upward. Also, I noticed when I turned off antialiasing and set the resolution to what I use for my optimal display settings, the "skins"/textures on objects appear to have a black/brown saturations - faces of people look toasted! I definitely didn't like finding out about this! I mean, I paid 90 bucks for this EVGA card and found out I can't get 3D rendering to work without issues. Also, the display seems to cause a weird high pitch "calculating" sound when I move objects like windows around the screen [like if I make a selection marqee window in photoshop]. So, two things I didn't like - my network card and graphics card now. The others are great. The case is a little louder than I'd like and the headphone port has some weird static/noise interference that sucks [you can find out online that a lot of people have this issue with the case] Good luck with your build! and does the intel 930 work well? did you install from snow leopard dvd 10.6.3 retail version? which software did you use? thanks a lot! for the wifi, you can use a wifi-PCI adapter, such as the ASUS WL 138g V2 did you install from snow leopard dvd 10.6.3 retail version? which software did you use? Yea, I purchased SL from Amazon and they had the 10.6.3 version. I upgraded my OS to 10.6.4 and haven't had any problems with the upgrade on the software did you install from snow leopard dvd 10.6.3 retail version? which software did you use? Yea, I purchased SL from Amazon and they had the 10.6.3 version. I upgraded my OS to 10.6.4 and haven't had any problems with the upgrade on the software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Saint Simon Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 so, i tested a couple more 3d games, it turns out these other games (Portal and GTA San Andreas) look fine...the textures dont have the issues that MW2 has. I think you should be good with a similar build. One thing i didn't mention. HDD, make sure your primary is less than 1TB [i remember seeing that 1TB+ hdd have issues]. RAM - make sure the RAM is unbuffered [i heard this from sn0le - look for his guides on youtube] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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