bigmatt Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Hey I'm trying to take advantage of the intel and amd price cuts. I am planning on overclocking this system eventually i'll buy aftermarket cooling later. Pretty sure that asrock mobo works pretty well for overclocking. The ram has low timings. The PSU should also be good enough to handle the overclock. I dont know if it's worth to get an amd 3800 dual core instead of this one. But I cant seem to figure out if that build would end up being cheaper or not. Thanks. Motherboard : ASRock 775i945GZ mATX $62.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813157095 CPU : Intel Pentium D 805 533 Mhz $101 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819116001 Ram : pqi TURBO 1gb (2 x 512) ddr2 533 $80.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820141200 Hard Drive : Hitachi Deskstar 80 gb sata II $41.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822145082 Dont know if this is a good hard drive choice for this mobo i think it is i'll be using that myans cd to install on 10.4.5 so yaaaaaaaa. PSU : Thermaltake Silent PurePower $39.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817153006 DVD combo : SAMSUNG Black $23.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827151086 Case : Linkworld 3210 $24.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811164040 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdtvboy Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 The on-board Realtek ALC888 is not very common. You may have trouble there (example: the ALC882 is known to work, but the ALC883 still gives some people trouble even though a "fix" exists for it). The Intel 945GZ chip is unproven on this forum. It does have GMA950 AND support for Conroe which is a rare combination. OSX86 Conroe compatibility is still a little too early to tell though... After lots of research, I ordered this mainboard/CPU today: Motherboard: Intel D945GPMLKR (an Intel Viiv-certified board) CPU: Intel Pentium D 840 This board has the Sigmatel 9220, which has a known working kext. There have even been reports that the SPDIF output works on this board! Everything else should work out of the box (TI Firewire, Intel Gigabit LAN, SATA, etc) The only downside I found to this board is no overclocking. But the Pentium D 840 should be plenty of horsepower (and a good space heater in the winter!). This motherboard + CPU combo is $190 after rebate here: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...=MBM-945GPM-840 Your other components look great, but you might spring for a quieter hard drive such as the Samsung SpinPoint SATAII. Samsung makes nearly silent 3.5 inch drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822152020 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822152025 BTW, I fell in love with this SFF case, and decided to go for it, despite its ridiculous cost: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811163050 Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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