albester Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 (edited) Hello.. My first hackintosh... I have put together some parts in a webshop, but I dont dare hit "buy" before I get some input from the gurus on this forum Her is the box: Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB S-ATA II Intel D975XBX2KR Bad Axe 2 Socket 775 Kingston HyperX 2GB 800MHz DDR II DIMM Gigabyte GeForce 7600 GT 256MB PCIe Zalman CPU Fan CNPS9500LED Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Socket775 Any thoughts on this? Will this work without too much patching and hassle? Stable and maybe dual monitor? Have 2 Samsung Syncmaster 710N (vga-lcd) screens. regards AB Edited February 19, 2007 by albester Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42886-ok-almost-ready-to-buy-but-are-these-parts-ok/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 "Ok" is most easily defined as, how much coverage do my choices of components get on boards in this forum. If you can find someone who has the same spec as you have chosen and they detail how they got it up and running, then go with it. For newbies and sheer ease of setting up I would swap the of course excellent motherboard for the Asrock 945-G DVI. There is a huge Asrock thread for you to read that covers pretty much all eventualities. The Asrock isn't an obvious choice for large scale overclocking but the processor you have chosen is very fast out of the box. There is nothing like a hand hold when you need it. The point is, Macs are about ease of use and productivity; if you're phaffing around for weeks and tinkering and tinkering, you might well ask where your vacation/weeks went. I have built a few Hackintoshes and find the Asrock to be rock stable, unlike a couple of the other builds. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42886-ok-almost-ready-to-buy-but-are-these-parts-ok/#findComment-306650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
albester Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 It seemed like some users did like the bad axe 2, but it was hard to find any info about it in here, the search function seems a bit odd. I searched for bad axe 2, and didnt get any results, but searching for bad axe got alot of hits, even bad axe 2, which it didnt find in the first place... well... the asrock.. will that function with that cpu? it says that e6600 need 965 chipset, and the asrock has 945g ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42886-ok-almost-ready-to-buy-but-are-these-parts-ok/#findComment-306653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveGee Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Well I dunno if this will help but.... I just built a badaxe2 based system a few weeks ago... Hardware: Case: Antec P150 Power: Came w/Case (modular power 450W I think) Mobo: BadAxe 2 CPU: E6300 Mem: 2GB Corsair DDR800 (not the C4 but the next 'step down') Storage: 2x 7200.10 Seagate 320GB (SATA) Video: nVidia GeForce 7600 GT Cooler: Stock (came with CPU) Optical: SH-S182D (Samsung?? Toshiba??) 20X DVD Burner (IDE) All before dinner I did the following: - Built the box - Upgraded BIOS to latest version Partition #1 Drive #1 - Installed OS X and related patches to get things up to latest 10.4.8 - Installed drivers / patches for (accelerated) video and audio Partition #2 Drive #1 - Installed Windows XP Pro - Installed latest drivers / patches for mobo and video - Installed various software packages Partition #3 Drive #1 - Installed Ubuntu Linux - Installed latest drivers for video - Installed various updates and software I spent saturday morning moving my 'OS X' work (apps, settings, preferences, etc) from my current Mac to this new box..... Gotta tell you this was one (fairly) painless process... Things that helped: - Bootable 10.4.7 JAS Install DVD - USB Thumb drive (to get files from one machine to another) - Additional working system (w/display) to aid me in getting drivers and patches and such... - An additional free port on my network switch - An extra ethernet cable (known to be working) And most of all this forum and its members.... While it might be difficult to find out exactly what software is current and supported for each specific subsystem (audio/video/kernel/etc) once you connected all the dots its fairly painless. For the badaxe2 here are the steps I took to get things working.... - Obtain 10.4.7 JAS DVD | Link: Look to P2P or Usenet (can't help any more than that) | Burn to DVD at an average speed (don't be in a rush, let it verify the burn) - Obtain "super-easy kernel Installer created by Prasys" (link below) | Link: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=33039 | Put the 'super-easy kernel installer...' on to the thumb drive (or burn to cd) - Boot with JAS DVD - Go into disk utility (from the utilities menu) | For just OS X - Partition the drive in AT LEAST 2 partitions (with one being about 10GB - for reasons explained below) | For OS X and Windows - Perhaps 3 or 4 partitions with 2 of them being about 10GB each. (or use 2 or more drives) | For OS X / Linux & Windows Perhaps 6 partitions with 3 of them being about 10GB each. (or use 2 or more drives) | Quit disk utility - Proceed with OS X 10.4.7 install | Make sure you click on 'OPTIONAL INSTALL' and check off the correct boxes | I think I only checked one of them - the top one IIRC... | REBOOT - Create account - Insert thumb-drive (or cd) | Copy 'scriptv3.command' (or whatever its called) from thumb drive or CD to your desktop | DO NOT CLICK ON IT YET - Run software update and install EVERYTHING | DO NOT REBOOT!! DO NOT REBOOT!! | DO NOT REBOOT!! DO NOT REBOOT!! | DO NOT REBOOT!! DO NOT REBOOT!! - Now you should double click on the "scriptv3.command" (or whatever its called) | the latest PATCHED kernel should now be installed.... | Reboot | Cross fingers / hold breath / etc... If the force is with you... Mac OS X 10.4.8 should now be booting and present you with a login screen! =========================================== This is why I said you might want to make SEVERAL partitions... =========================================== - - Before going any further you might want to clone this WORKING installed to ANOTHER PARTITION with something like CCC (carbon-copy-cloner) - or some other utility (search MacUpdate or VersionTracker). - - You never know when having an EMERGENCY (working) boot drive will come in handy... - Now you can move forward with getting the accelerated video fixes installed and then the audio fixes and then move on with Linux (I used Ubuntu) and/or Windows... Hope this helps! Dave Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42886-ok-almost-ready-to-buy-but-are-these-parts-ok/#findComment-306727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
albester Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 Holy crackpot.. If its that easy I have to order right away !! But.. how about the speed, the graphics and so on.. How is the sound, is it possible to use 4.1 speakers..? And what about dual monitors, if you have tried that ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42886-ok-almost-ready-to-buy-but-are-these-parts-ok/#findComment-306782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveGee Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Yep I really was that easy (or maybe I just got lucky) You should read http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=26508 (my post answering some of your questions is on the last page - 14 I think) Oh and in that post when I say 'I only have 2.1 sound' what I really meant to say was I only have a 2.1 speaker setup... I dunno if surround is supported (yet) ... but if I know the person who's been doing a lot of audio work for us - I'll only be a matter of time I'd bet. Here's the audo thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=32859 (look towards the end for Bad Axe 2 stuff since it only just go supported a week or so ago maybe two... I think this page (1st post on that page) where Bad Axe 2 support was first reported to work (in some fashion). Since then tweaks have occurred for even better support... Dave Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42886-ok-almost-ready-to-buy-but-are-these-parts-ok/#findComment-306970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Well there you go then :) lol My only concern would be about stability. Search out as many users as possible and make sure you are comparing like with like right through the chain. There is no point in using OS X if it behaves like XP and occasionally crashes. I find the Asrock 945-G to be rock steady, unlike my Asus setup. I haven't worked my way through the forums for a few weeks and things to change, patches come along, etc. Certainly the last time I looked the slightly old 945 chipset is favoured over others for ease of setup, SATA, and that all important stability. My E6300 setup with 1gig of bog standard 533mhz ram runs just as fast as the imacs I have tried, though I have yet to try compressing video clips. What's best about my setup is that it is very cheap and doesn't require that you buy a graphics card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42886-ok-almost-ready-to-buy-but-are-these-parts-ok/#findComment-308180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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