Noob, please review setup

[dbarker]

I'm new to macs in general, but I use them on a daily basis now at work.

 

As such, I'm quickly realizing just how awful winblows really is, i knew it sucked but wow.

 

Heres my idea, based upon hours of searching this forum & the wiki, for my new home setup to replace my rather outdated P3 IBM laptop (T22) and a tired old emachines 1600+ amd system.

 

niether of these are capable of being converted to a hackintosh, the emachines supports only SSE, the Ibm doesnt even have that.

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The List:

 

Case: Cooler Master Centurion 5

Power: Ultra X-Finity 600w

MB: Asus P5W DH-Deluxe Wifi

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66ghz

Ram: 4Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer Dual-Ch DDR2

Video: PNY GeForce 7300GT

Drives: Ultra internal 3.5 Floppy/Multi card reader

Phillips SPD2413BD Super All-Write DVD Burner (E-ide)

(4) Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB HDD Sata

Modem: USR v.92 External 56K

Sabrent USB-Serial adapter Cable

Key/Mouse: Microsoft Laser Wireless Desktop 6000 v2 combo

Display: Hanns-G HX 192DPB 19" 700:1 SXGA 1280x1024

 

As I havn't built a computer in over a decade, I'm not up to speed on things. Please review and advise as needed. Also, please keep in mind i plan on doing HEAVY video editing on this machine. It will be dual boot Winblows/OSx86. I need and want 100% full functionality.

 

Thanks for the great site and all your help!

[madnoh]

1. Mobo: Nice mobo for Windows but I'm not sure if the onboard wifi AP works with OSX.

2. Floppy drive? Uhmm...uhh... perhaps for Windows. I can't say that I've noticed anyone on Macs or hackintoshes using floppies. A USB floppy drive is OK, not sure about IDE. Multi-card readers that hook up to internal USB headers should be fine.

3. IDE DVD burners on some boards might have issues. I had to get a SATA drive cos OSX wouldn't recognise my IDE burner. Connecting via a USB/Firewire enclosure works.

4. 56k modem, and I assume, connected with the USB-serial cable? I can't say for sure but chances are that you will have driver issues there.

 

All the rest seems fine. Good luck!

[onemanstrash]

I'm new to macs in general, but I use them on a daily basis now at work.

 

As such, I'm quickly realizing just how awful winblows really is, i knew it sucked but wow.

 

Heres my idea, based upon hours of searching this forum & the wiki, for my new home setup to replace my rather outdated P3 IBM laptop (T22) and a tired old emachines 1600+ amd system.

 

niether of these are capable of being converted to a hackintosh, the emachines supports only SSE, the Ibm doesnt even have that.

------

The List:

 

Case: Cooler Master Centurion 5

Power: Ultra X-Finity 600w

MB: Asus P5W DH-Deluxe Wifi

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66ghz

Ram: 4Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer Dual-Ch DDR2

Video: PNY GeForce 7300GT

Drives: Ultra internal 3.5 Floppy/Multi card reader

Phillips SPD2413BD Super All-Write DVD Burner (E-ide)

(4) Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB HDD Sata

Modem: USR v.92 External 56K

Sabrent USB-Serial adapter Cable

Key/Mouse: Microsoft Laser Wireless Desktop 6000 v2 combo

Display: Hanns-G HX 192DPB 19" 700:1 SXGA 1280x1024

 

As I havn't built a computer in over a decade, I'm not up to speed on things. Please review and advise as needed. Also, please keep in mind i plan on doing HEAVY video editing on this machine. It will be dual boot Winblows/OSx86. I need and want 100% full functionality.

 

Thanks for the great site and all your help!

I have an ide dvd burner in my p5w. It works great. But I got a pioneer 112 because this is what apple uses, I havn't checked on the latest version though. I do video and audio editing on my rig and it works fine.

 

All in all this build looks good.

[Synaesthesia]

Looks great. I would perhaps recommend a 7600GS or GT, firstly to accellerate GPU effects, secondly because a *few* people have had problems with certain 7300 series cards.