optimusp Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I'm building a new budget system designed for OSx86 10.4.8. At the moment, I'm considering the following hardware: New: case: Rosewill R230-P-BK Black SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower - $17.99 mobo: ASUS P5L-VM 1394 LGA 775 Intel 945G Micro ATX - $75.99 cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale 1.8GHz LGA 775 - $114.50 memory: Crucial 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel - $75.99 cpu fan: Rosewill RCX-Z3 92mm Ball CPU Cooler - $29.00 dvd: LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with 12X DVD-RAM write LightScribe - $33.99 Already own: several IDE hard drives Shipping: $25.86 Total: $361.45 How does this hardware look? I didn't include a video card because from what I've read, the onboard video on this mobo works right out of the box. Can you think of anything I'm missing? Do I need a separate heatsink? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siddharth Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Great choice. It's all gonna work. For the audio remember to use Taruga's AppleHDA fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrshikadance Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 were you able to get the on board Ethernet working? i just looked up that board on HCL and it says the ethernet wasnt working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoodmulti Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 This board is with this network card and currently doesn't have a driver for it, you will need to buy a cheap network card. Attansic PCIe Gigabit LAN Controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimusp Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 I decided to save my money and use a spare PC that I already had. Here is my hardware list: Hp Pavillion 505n (or 515n, no sure) Celeron 2.2gz (socket 478) Mobo: Tritan or some other generic name. I can't find BIOS updates for the life of me. You shouldn't need any though. Generic Sony dvd-rw drive ~750mb ram 80gig IDE HD PCI geforce fx 5200 1280x1024 lcd At the moment, EVERYTHING is working perfectly. It's an older computer, so the xBench stats are a bit lower than I'd like. But for a free mac, it can't be beat. It's definitely fast enough for me to do my web development and graphic design on. Here is how th install process went: Installed via DVD 10.4.7 (Jas), checking the two Intel patches needed. After the OS finished installing, I realized that I didn't have support for CI/QE, so I downloaded the Natit drivers 1.0. Upon restarting, the boot sequence would hang. So, I popped in the 10.4.8 (Jas) dvd and upgraded to 4.8. After I rebooted, everything was working perfectly. Here are the results of my Xbench run. optimus_bench.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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