iggy4mayor Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Ok so I'm definitely interested in turning my desktop PC into a mac for video editing. Here's what I have in my box: 1 x GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard 1 x GIGABYTE GV-NX86S256H GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card 1 x CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-520HX 520W ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply 1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80557E6600 2 x G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ 1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive I've done my research on here and my motherboard, processor, graphics card, and hard drive are all compatible with osx86, so no issues there. I've been using this guide to look inside my tower: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=28439 This is made for the GA-965P motherboard. The issue is, my hard drive is plugged in through an orange SATA connection, and my DVD drive is IDE. I don't have my extra cables or anything with me, so I'll have to order a purple SATA connection I'm assuming, yes? I can't just plug my orange cable into my purple SATA spot.... right? So before I go and order a few things off newegg, I was wondering, how well will this computer fare as a Mac? Is it even worth it? I'm doing this all to have better ease at video editing with FCP, and my Canon 7D records in .mov anyway, which is terrible for instant preview on a PC. Please let me know people, because I'd like to get started today if possible (gloomy rainy day woes haha) Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253074-looking-for-help-on-doing-this/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 This is made for the GA-965P motherboard. The issue is, my hard drive is plugged in through an orange SATA connection, and my DVD drive is IDE. I don't have my extra cables or anything with me, so I'll have to order a purple SATA connection I'm assuming, yes? I can't just plug my orange cable into my purple SATA spot.... right? Are you serious? Sorry but that made me laugh. SATA cables can be any color you like. Paint it purple if it means that much to you. If the SATA ports on your motherboard are colored differently, that serves to indicate that they belong to different SATA controllers. You can see which ports belong to which controller in your motherboard manual. You should use the ports that belong to the Intel ICHx controller. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253074-looking-for-help-on-doing-this/#findComment-1659783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy4mayor Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 Are you serious? Sorry but that made me laugh. SATA cables can be any color you like. Paint it purple if it means that much to you. Okay awesome then. Sorry didn't know, just thought it was odd orange cable going into an orange port. Maybe thought specifics! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253074-looking-for-help-on-doing-this/#findComment-1659789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulcyber Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Are you serious? Sorry but that made me laugh. SATA cables can be any color you like. Paint it purple if it means that much to you. I got a psu that came with two orange sata cables. I think he means the GA motherboard probably has blue sata ports which are recommended to be used first and the white ones next, perhaps because they are controlled by different chipsets Rendering, can be quite intensive and benefits some from more ram and most from an upper end cpu. My sata hard drives came with black sata cables. I do have some gold-colored sata cables which are more valuable since the upswing in the precious metals market. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253074-looking-for-help-on-doing-this/#findComment-1659811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy4mayor Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 ok so all I need to do then is use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and my snow leopard dvd and it should work?? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253074-looking-for-help-on-doing-this/#findComment-1659862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TightByte Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I'm guessing you didn't mean something like this, but there are adapters out there which let you use PATA drives with SATA controllers and vice versa, such as this one: (Norwegian page, as I'm Norwegian, but all you really need to do is look at the picture) Komplett Data - SDM SATA to PATA adapater In a case like that, it certainly would be relevant to which connector you'd be hooking things. As it happens, one of them is orange, another is black. But it's pretty clearly marked, so I doubt you'd make that mistake. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253074-looking-for-help-on-doing-this/#findComment-1659885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulcyber Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 ok so all I need to do then is use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and my snow leopard dvd and it should work?? You need to find a guide to follow. I used the tonymacx86 guide and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. After the install some of your devices may not be working. They need drivers which are called kexts in Hack talk. Have you seen a guide that tells you what choices to make when using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for your mobo, supposing that you do it that way. The way things are installed varies almost from computer to computer. Graphics cards are usually hard to install and do you know what kext works for your audio codec? Another really important thing is getting the right DSDT.aml for your motherboard. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=235523 A DSDT.aml will help out your installation procedure quite a bit, and I notice that your mobo is on MaLd0n's supported list although I don't know about the revision. Installing Hackintosh is more like a geek hobby, it takes persistent effort/research and is usually not painless like Windows 7 or Ubuntu 10.10. It's important to find a written guide for installing Hackintosh on your mobo, perhaps one which you have read, or maybe one more recent. Your guide, circa 2006, describes 10.4.8 and you might be using 10.6.0or3 retail. http://www.kexts.com/motherboard-cpu/4608-...a-965p-ds3.html is a newer guide, 2010. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26858 This guide, ^^ is how to physically assemble your motherboard so that devices can function, +Bios. That's a different type of guide than one which tells how to get the OS X OS working (kexts.com), although there is some overlap. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253074-looking-for-help-on-doing-this/#findComment-1659886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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