cmdwedge Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hi all, It's time to bite the bullet and invest in a new Intel box for nothing but Mac. What parts, including model numbers, would you use? I was thinking: Motherboard: Intel D915GUXLK CPU: Want to keep it reasonably priced. I'm not trying to break a speed record here, but I'm happy to pay $5 more for a jump in performance but not $50 for a tiny incremental jump. RAM: 1Gb DDR2 (2x512mb) HDD: SATA? PATA? DVD/RW: No idea here. Case: Has anyone built a near-silent PC running OSX? What are your thoughts? Which parts don't quite work just yet (I read somewhere that you cannot play DVD videos?). Thanks guys, wedge Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6652-building-a-new-x86-from-scratch/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemonkey50 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I would hold off on building a box for a week or so. Wait until Maxxuss gets 10.4.4 in his hands and see what he does with it. We may find that all current hardware will not work at all, and this was all a dream. Of course we could also get a nice surprise and find more drivers, etc. So basically what I'm saying is wait. I would hate to see you get screwed by purchasing the wrong stuff. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6652-building-a-new-x86-from-scratch/#findComment-41164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdwedge Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 I would hold off on building a box for a week or so. Wait until Maxxuss gets 10.4.4 in his hands and see what he does with it. We may find that all current hardware will not work at all, and this was all a dream. Of course we could also get a nice surprise and find more drivers, etc. So basically what I'm saying is wait. I would hate to see you get screwed by purchasing the wrong stuff. Believe it or not, I actually had that thought myself. I figured that now a 'real Mac OSX 10.4.4 exists for Intel (not just a Dev copy) that someone will be able to patch the kernel to ignore TPM for the real 10.4.4 install DVD. It's possible that even more hardware will be supported now, I would imagine! Thanks for the honest advice! wedge Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6652-building-a-new-x86-from-scratch/#findComment-41168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxtaz Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Believe it or not, I actually had that thought myself. I figured that now a 'real Mac OSX 10.4.4 exists for Intel (not just a Dev copy) that someone will be able to patch the kernel to ignore TPM for the real 10.4.4 install DVD. It's possible that even more hardware will be supported now, I would imagine! Thanks for the honest advice! wedge And how about EFI? If we have only BIOS-es how to crack something like EFI? TPM is just a flu comparative EFI. If we can do this we'll continue to use OSX or maybe we should wait the next upgrade: a motherboard with EFI. Regards, BM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6652-building-a-new-x86-from-scratch/#findComment-41384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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