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A lot of people are still searching for the best hardware to build their osx86 boxes.

(I've even been researching and asking opinions myself on this forum.)

 

The wiki is a good starting point, but it's slightly dated and not 100% accurate.

 

Example - there is a column in the matrix : "Fully working without patching".

You'll find someone marked YES, but in the notes field they then explain the tweaks etc. they had to make to get it all working. So it's somewhat misleading.

 

That's pretty much expected with any user generated content, so you take what you get.

 

 

I know a lot of us have our configs in our sigs, but it still requires some digging to find what you're lookng for sometimes.

 

(Oddly enough, if found my usercontent.css file I used for ad and flash blocking causes a lot of sigs not to show up in the forum (but that's my problem..))

 

So I propose a "post your setup" to give people an easy to find starting reference as to what people are actively successfully using.

 

Or - I could just shut up and we can keep referring people to wiki and the search function,...

 

My current setup :

HP dc5100 SFF

2(x) Seagate 250GB SATA

LG DVD R/W DL Lightscribe (IDE)

2 GB PC3200 RAM

D-Link BBT120 Bluetooth

Rocketfish USB mic

x-box 360 USB webcam

Apple BT KB and Mightymouse

 

Integrated graphics, sound, USB, SATA, IDE worked natively.

Minr config editing for integrated NIC.

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ok,nice idea ...but many people have that in they signatures ...

 

motherboard : asus p5p800se

processor : intel pentium d 805 2.66 @ 2.88

ram : 2x512 kingston

gpu : ati radeon 9600 xt ( by gigabyte agp)

hd : maxtor 120+80 gb

 

 

everything work fine ...

 

~R

Here is my poor old rig.

 

I used it as my photo editing machine using photoshop cs3 and also for dvd authoring and cd burning using toast 8.

 

Motherboard - Asrock P4145GV, w/ built-in graphics, LAN only

CPU - Intel Celeron 2.4 ghz, SSE2 capable only

Memory - 512 MB DDR only

Hard Drive - 40 GB, ATA only

Graphics - Geforce FX5200 128mb 64bit only, with QI/CI Supported

OS - Jas OSX86 4.9/semthex 8.9.1 + WinXP Pro + Uphuck 4.9 v1.3

 

 

With my config, I successfully installed osx using uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 intall dvd. I just installed the necessary patches and kernels from the install dvd.

 

 

Those includes:

 

universal kernel-3

 

remove AppleIntelCpuPowerManagement.kext

 

AppleACPIPlatform from 10.4.8

 

loginwindow 10.4.4

 

...and no more.

 

These are based from trial and error to get the right kernels and patches for my specs.

 

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***When I used my old geforce mx4000 with my above config, I get a Restart Your Computer error, but it is easily solved by removing nvdaresman.kext. With this card, QE/CI is not supported, But I can still play videos of any format except dvds.

 

***With my geforce fx5200 agp, no errors encountered, i used diabolik natit to enable QE/CI.

Thanks for the input!

 

Just to clarify - I do know many people's configs are in their signatures. But as far as I can tell, that's not a searchable field..

 

So post away!

 

It may help to mention the install / config difficulty level.

 

Again, I'm trying to get us a good "look here first before asking the same old question again" thread.

Processor: E6700

Memory: 2GB Corsair XMS DDR2

Motherboard: MSI 975x Platinum PE Edititon - (975x chipset)

Graphics Card: Nvidia 7300GT

HD: Seagate Barracuda

Mouse&Keyboard: Logitech MX Revolution-USB Apple keyboard

 

I Used uphucks 1.4 rev2... I think thats the name of it.. Anyways everything worked on the 1st shot, audio, video, lan etc. etc. Not once did I have to mess with any kexts.

mobo: Shuttle SB95P V2 with Intel 925XE + ICH6R, Realtek ALC880 audio, Broadcom 5751 Ethernet, VIA VT6207 Firewire

cpu: Intel Pentium 4 530 (Prescott) 3.0Ghz, 800Mhz FSB, 1Mb cache

memory: 2x512Mb generic DDR2-533Mhz

graphics: Leadtek GeForce 7900 GS with 256Mb

disk: Maxtor DiamondMax 9 160Gb IDE

display: 2x21inch CRT monitors, using DVI to VGA adapters, 3200x1200 resolution

OS X: Jas 10.4.8 for Intel SSE2/3

 

Computer fully working with a few patches : ethernet and audio required patched kexts (found on this forum).

Front audio, back line-in and mic-in not working, but line-out okay.

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