Phatal Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I'm planning to build a new desktop and will invest around $2,500 into the parts. I would love to boot windows 7 and snow leopard on 2 different SSD drives. Can someone help me with the parts I should buy like the motherboard, ram etc. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CasesDirect Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I'd recommend at least 8GB of ram and depending how much HD you need on each machine I would use 2 250GB hard drives Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/#findComment-1558379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phatal Posted October 3, 2010 Author Share Posted October 3, 2010 I need to know everything from what motherboard to buy to the ram and video card. i will be installing them on 2 different SSD. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/#findComment-1558704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nameci Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Wow, how about a mac pro if you have that much money to spare? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/#findComment-1558706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Wow. How many times has this question been asked in the last month/year? As this search will show. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...e=%2Bwhat+parts Read the answers in the search link and check the WIKI here http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Re SSD drives- While everyone should have a good back up strategy, may be vitally important with these drives. Check this re reliability http://serverfault.com/questions/14189/rel...y-of-ssd-drives Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/#findComment-1558708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phatal Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 I looked through the list but didn't see the ones I wanted there. I was wondering if these would work: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128423 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...1-658-_-Product BTW about the SSD, they are just for the OS and apps. I'll be getting four 1TB-2TB raid 10 for backups and storage. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/#findComment-1558748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I looked through the list but didn't see the ones I wanted there. I was wondering if these would work:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128423 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...1-658-_-Product BTW about the SSD, they are just for the OS and apps. I'll be getting four 1TB-2TB raid 10 for backups and storage. That where you need to do a bit of the work yourself, you do a search like this http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&...q=&gs_rfai= You find more info From what I read on this forum Gigabyte boards are more compatible. And as far as I know USB 3 is not usable, the ports will be seen as USB 2(I think) Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/#findComment-1558751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phatal Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Can you gather all the parts for me. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233558-building-new-desktop/#findComment-1558761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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