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Intel BOXD975XBX2KR 975x Socket 775 Core 2 Duo ready FSB1066 DDR2 Audio Crossfire ATX Retail Boxed

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor

 

Codegen 4U RackMount Case 500mm Deep - 1.2mm Steel - No PSU

 

Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-12) Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty

 

Zalman RESERATOR1-PLUS Fanless Water Cooling System

 

Enermax Liberty 400W Modular ATX2.2 PSU

 

Asus 7300GT

 

HDDs will be recycled!!

 

Stuff on the way, ordered online.

 

What would be the best OSX86 version? :rolleyes:

BJMoose
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Very nice system but I'd really question your choice of PSUs. 400W might be a bit underpowered for the potential this system offers. A minimum of 500-550W would be a better choice, especially if you're contemplating OC'ing and taking advantage of the BX2's hard/optical drive capabilities.

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I just put together pretty much the same thing.

The intel is a good board, it makes a huge difference.

We have rackmount cases in the studio, they don't vibrate at all, it's great.

 

I had no trouble with XXX 10.4.10

Had to select ionetworking on install for network to log on properly,

and the taruga patch for audio.

 

Surprisingly pain free.

pakaya
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I just put together pretty much the same thing.The intel is a good board, it makes a huge difference.We have rackmount cases in the studio, they don't vibrate at all, it's great.I had no trouble with XXX 10.4.10Had to select ionetworking on install for network to log on properly, and the taruga patch for audio.Surprisingly pain free.
Thanks a lot for the recommendation. I will go for XXX.
Very nice system but I'd really question your choice of PSUs. 400W might be a bit underpowered for the potential this system offers. A minimum of 500-550W would be a better choice, especially if you're contemplating OC'ing and taking advantage of the BX2's hard/optical drive capabilities.
I guess you are right :rolleyes: . However my graphics card is not a monster, there'll be 3HDDs and DVD RW, keeping my fingers crossed. Cheers.
pakaya
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Phew, the thing is up and running. XxX installation went fine. So far things are working fine. Had to use Tharuga's patch (thanks Tharuga) for sound after initial installation. I am putting finishing touches now.

 

system;

Intel Quad Core Q6600, Bad Axe 2 mother board, Nvidia 7300GT, Zalman Reserator plus liquid cooler, 2GB DDR2 800mhz RAM.

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I have pretty much the same hardware, fairly painless install with XxX 10.4.10 ppf1 (ive dnoe it that many times now though, meh all good practice. Hows your .dmg mounting? mine didnt work and i had to put a manual kext reload fix to get it going, thought i think you can workaround it by installing toast

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I have pretty much the same hardware, fairly painless install with XxX 10.4.10 ppf1 (ive dnoe it that many times now though, meh all good practice. Hows your .dmg mounting? mine didnt work and i had to put a manual kext reload fix to get it going, thought i think you can workaround it by installing toast

 

No probs with DMG mounting. Increased bus freq to 334 so Q6600 runs @ 3ghz. Surprised by the temperatures running around 34 C!! I am new to overclocking so I am not going to tweak further. My XBENCH score;

 

 

Results 198.59

 

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.10 (8R4031)

Physical RAM 2048 MB <----------- (5 5 5 12 800mhz corsair XMS2)

Drive Type Maxtor 6B200M0

 

CPU Test 155.54

GCD Loop 354.69 18.70 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 171.69 4.08 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 123.87 4.09 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 111.11 19.35 Mops/sec

 

Thread Test 629.49

Computation 553.67 11.22 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 729.37 31.38 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

 

Memory Test 206.67

System 196.22

Allocate 164.64 604.63 Kalloc/sec

Fill 206.69 10049.83 MB/sec

Copy 228.44 4718.42 MB/sec

Stream 218.29

Copy 204.31 4220.02 MB/sec

Scale 201.79 4168.90 MB/sec

Add 236.99 5048.31 MB/sec

Triad 235.05 5028.39 MB/sec

 

Quartz Graphics Test 208.86

Line 189.51 12.62 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 243.04 72.56 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 230.91 18.82 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 212.12 5.35 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 181.71 11.37 Kchars/sec

 

OpenGL Graphics Test 233.80

Spinning Squares 233.80 296.59 frames/sec

 

User Interface Test 588.76

Elements 588.76 2.70 Krefresh/sec

 

Disk Test 86.00

Sequential 107.41

Uncached Write 94.49 58.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 93.12 52.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 170.82 49.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 99.37 49.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 71.71

Uncached Write 39.71 4.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 95.58 30.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 89.09 0.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 112.19 20.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

So quiet, what a relief to my ears!! ;)

 

Quite satisfied with the outcome. Now has the boring task of installing the software :wacko:

 

Edit: Broken dictionary app bugs me, gonna try mac.nub release.

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