austin987 Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 I originally had installed OSX86 on my AMD SSE2 rig a couple years ago, back when OSX86 was new and exciting. Unfortunately, since my rig was SSE2, had an AMD Radeon, and other unsupported hardware, it was not the best of experiences. Now, I've got some spare cash and was looking to build a new computer, so I decided I'd go about building a hackintosh, now that it's had a lot of time to improve. From a few minutes of research, I can still see that Intel is the way to go, with a Core 2 Duo processor. But I'm looking for recommendations on motherboard/GPU that will work 100% out of the box (or as close as possible), without being horribly slow or expensive. Shall we say a budget of $500 or so, again, looking for 100% out of the box compatibility if possible. Would prefer to use SATA for the hdd (looks like it works nowadays). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 How about this thread: My new hackintosh for less than $500, parts desc with links and price Seems like a nice one to me! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-421419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
austin987 Posted August 6, 2007 Author Share Posted August 6, 2007 Are the SATA and LAN supported in OSX? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-421729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Yes, on some motherboards. (like mine !) Compatibility varies. Check the wiki for all the information. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.8 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-423052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxen Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 LAN supported in OSX? These (100 mb) cards work with IONetworkingFamily from 10.4.7: 3Com3C90x DEC21x4 RTL8139 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-423072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
austin987 Posted August 8, 2007 Author Share Posted August 8, 2007 I'd prefer something with a bit more ram slots. I'm glancing through the HCL, but there's *a lot* of hardware to look through, and a lot of them are incomplete. Not to be lazy, but can anyone recommend a board meeting these criteria: Intel Core 2 Duo 4 ram slots (DDR2 okay, would prefer DDR3) On board accelerated video (not sure how much this has changed over the past couple years), if not, just a recommendation on a cheap video card that is supported w/o a lot of driver patching On board gigabit lan, w/o driver patching On board SATA2, w/o driver patching Appreciate the help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-423256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Yeah, it can be confusing... I recommend a 945G based board, they have intel gma 950 graphics, which work very nicely with no hassle...other than that, you're on your own... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-423290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
austin987 Posted August 8, 2007 Author Share Posted August 8, 2007 That at least narrows it down some :-P. Are there any natively supported gigabit ethernet cards, yet? Or only 100Mbit? I've noticed a few reports of SATA success on the HCL, so I'll probably search newegg for the specs I want, then go to the HCL for confirmation. I don't mind driver hacking, but I've been out of the lopp for so long, I'd rather avoid it to not mess it up/be wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-423309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
realfolkblues Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 nvidia cards work well. 6 or 7 series are cheep. just dont get a 512 mb version. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-423397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
austin987 Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 What about Intel GMA 3000 graphics? Couple motherboards on newegg have it, but I don't see anything in the HCL about it.Do any Nvidia/ATI graphics cards support full acceleration? Don't need anything for gaming, just video playback and smooth graphics. Maybe a bit of video/photo editing, and an occasional game, but fewer FPS won't kill me. Looking at this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813127019 It's got 4 DIMMs, up to 8 GB, with 8 SATA (which are supported according to HCL), quad core, and not too expensive (I've got a power supply and 2GB of DDR2 I can use, as well as a few hdd's). Mostly, I need a MB/CPU/GPU supported in OSX, and a nice case.Any thoughts on this motherboard? Any nice GPU's to go with it :-P? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115017 Thinking about this processor. Newegg only has two Core2 Quad cores from what I can see, and the other is double the price for a .2 GHz increase...definitely not worth the price.My thoughts are this processor + 2 GB of DDR2 + Raptor SATA 3 = mmm comments? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59145-building-new-hackintosh/#findComment-428024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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