Niitsu Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I'm looking to build a low budget hackintosh. Are these components fully compatible? Is the GPU good value? Is the PSU enough to power everything? Is the onboard LAN compatible? If not what PCI card do you guys recommend? If you guys have any other suggestions please help me out. [CPU] E5700 Wolfdale3.0GHz Dual-Core$59.99 [MOBO] Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L $54.99 [GPU] ASUS GeForce 210 Fanless $21.89 after MIR [RAM] Kingston PC2-6400 2GB DDR2-800 $27.99 [CASE+PSU] Inwin BK623 mATX 300W PSU $56.65 Total = $221.51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Greene Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I put together what I consider to be the ULTIMATE budget hack... ASUS AT3IONT-i $125 4Gb (2x2Gb) 1066MHz DDR3 RAM $50 I used a spare SATA drive I had kicking around or about $50 Any old PSU and case... A lot of people will scoff at the Atom processor but I have my 1.6GHz Dual Core 330 unit clocked to 2.13Ghz with no fan, and I have no issues... I am running 10.6.7 from an iAtkos install... The onboard ION graphics (same as the last MacBook) handle 1080 playback without a hiccup... If you decide to got this route I can even post my .kext files and my /Extra folder as well as post instructions... Good luck either way man... Attached is a screenshot... Note: 2.13GHz clock speed and 64-bit kernel and etensions, and in the second the Accelerated graphics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fventura03 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I put together what I consider to be the ULTIMATE budget hack...ASUS AT3IONT-i $125 4Gb (2x2Gb) 1066MHz DDR3 RAM $50 I used a spare SATA drive I had kicking around or about $50 Any old PSU and case... A lot of people will scoff at the Atom processor but I have my 1.6GHz Dual Core 330 unit clocked to 2.13Ghz with no fan, and I have no issues... I am running 10.6.7 from an iAtkos install... The onboard ION graphics (same as the last MacBook) handle 1080 playback without a hiccup... If you decide to got this route I can even post my .kext files and my /Extra folder as well as post instructions... Good luck either way man... Attached is a screenshot... Note: 2.13GHz clock speed and 64-bit kernel and etensions, and in the second the Accelerated graphics... was it a straight forward install? how come you're running such a low display resolution ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickytl Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Hi Brad, I'd really appreciate anymore details you have on the install you did. Thanks Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradgreene313 Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 I used the Retail method... I only had to find .Kext files for sound... ALC882 I believe... I am running at 1024x768 because that is all my monitor supports... Keyword "budget build"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 get a budget 17" lcd monitor with dvi in craigslist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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