zaiby Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Hi My pc just died so I need a new one which can run OSX and supports leopard fully so I don’t have to play around with patches. The hardware requirement: 45nm Intel processor with 12mb in L2 4-8gb ram Very fast hard disk totally supported gfx maybe 8600gt I think it is supported :S DVD-drive I have around 700-800$ It would be great if someone could find me the hardware I need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaiby Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 I have seen on this: MB: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 : http://edbpriser.dk/Products/Listprices.asp?ID=380743 RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 2 x 4 GB : http://edbpriser.dk/Products/Listprices.asp?ID=395048 CPU: Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield) Model Q9300 (2.5GHz) 6MB Cache : http://shg.dk/produkter/infobox.asp?varenr...8&lokation= GFX: Leadtek WinFast PX8800 GT (256 GB) : http://edbpriser.dk/Products/Listprices.asp?ID=410253 Total : 1200$ :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate256 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 well the 8600 is supported with the beta drivers but i would wait untill 10.5.2 comes out. right now from what i have been reading, people are not having luck with stability and some are though! i am going with a 8800 GTS i think with my build. quad core only has a 8 mb cache but i think the extreme has a 12! go 8 gigs for sure!! it is soo cheap now like 140 for 8. intel bad exe 2 Mobo is very stable with leapord! and can use quad and 8 gigs of ram. the only down side is only 4 sata ports work (not the 8 that it has on it) and some minor audio problems but that can be fixed with a 6 buck usb card! Good luck. and FCS should run very well. o yea the quad core is very overclockable too! some SOME have gotten it to 4.0 Ghz from 2.4 Ghz! usally it goes around 3.3 to .34 Ghz i think. with water cooling probally higher! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheIntrepidSpaceboySpiff Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 o yea the quad core is very overclockable too! some SOME have gotten it to 4.0 Ghz from 2.4 Ghz! usally it goes around 3.3 to .34 Ghz i think. with water cooling probally higher! Well, I odered the Q6600. It costs 200€ instead of 300€ and hast 2x4MB instead of 2x3MB cache. They come in G0 stepping which really has proven to be overclockable - in fact I have not seen any reports of the Q9300 at 4GHz. I'm not saying it cannot be done, the Q9300's are the newer, better models, but beeing a bit on the conservative side considering the amont of money I just spent on Hacintosh parts, I went for the reliable Q6600. my 0,02$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaiby Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Dose intel bad exe 2 Mobo support 45nm cpu? And what about this laptop I have seen today will it run leopard? DVD: SAMSUNG DVD-RW DL GFX: NVIDIA® Geforce 8600M GT CPU: 2.50 GHz Intel C2 DUO T9300 800MHz 6MB RAM: 4096MB (2x2048) DDR2 667/PC5300 SODIMM Hard disk:160GB 7200rpm SATA Harddisk Wireless: Intel Pro/Wireless 4965AGN 300Mbit Otherstuff: Intel® Turbo Memory 1GB Chipset: Intel Santa Rosa i965 Audio: Realtek HD Audio 268 Southbridge: ICH8 for about 2200$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheIntrepidSpaceboySpiff Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Dose intel bad exe 2 Mobo support 45nm cpu? Oops - good thing you asked: NO, it doesn't: However, this motherboard, which uses the Intel 975X Express chipset will not support the new 45nm processors,... This is one of the reasosns I settles for a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4, everything works and there a good guides for this mobo here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaiby Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Okay thanks.. I have to choose between the pc hardware and the laptop can someone please tell me if the laptop can run osx or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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