Question on the Dell e520n

[KNK]

Would this setup work? Dell e520n - Product Link

• Pentium® D Processor 915 with Dual Core Technology (2.8GHz, 800FSB)
  
• FreeDOS™ included in the box, ready to install
  
• 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
  
• 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
  
• 48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive
  
• No Monitor
  
• 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache OR 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro
  
• Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
  
• 3.5 in Floppy Drive
  
• Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
  

All the other Dell systems seem like they won't work. This one looks like it could be a perfect match.

[magic0200]

I can only confirm with what I have and hopefully it will help you....

 

Dell E510

 

3.0 Prescott 64bit hyperthread Pen4 Chip

1 GIG 533mhz ram

Intel 945G motherboard

SATA (1x300GB, 1x160GB) Segate / WDigital

Came with X300 ATI, installed Nvidia 7300GS

 

 

At this point these adjustments were made

- Install was flawless with no issues (using mifki kernel on 10.4.8 install, also use sigmatell 9200 patch for working audio out of black sound port. However, have not tried input and green output does not work. Stereo is working great with no pops or issues).

 

- After install proceed to install edited IONETWORK.kext that allows built in ethernet to be recognized

- Installed newest Titan driver which locates and uses QE/CI on Nvidia board.

 

The machine is working so well that I purchased a copy of OSX and plan on using this as my main computer.

 

* Parallels works with no issues as well (tested with XP and Linux)

 

 

Your biggest concern will be the motherboard that dell uses in that machine. Intel boards have a great success rate with OSX however issues such as sound and ethernet are your top question marks. Call up dell and ask what board they are using and then find the specs and post them.

 

From there we can give you a better answer.

 

Hope this helps.