Exio Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Hey all, I'm thinking of building a decent but cheap 10.5 system, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (65W) Dual-Core Socket AM2, 2.1GHz, 512KB x2 L2 Cache, 2000MHz HT, 65nm (ADO4000DDBOX) $65.99 Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 Socket AM2 AMD 690V Chipset Dual Channel DDR2 800 HD Audio ATI X1200 Integrated GPU Mirco ATX $67.99 My-Phone P4 ATX Middle Tower Case with 500watt Power Supply (Black-Black) $38.99 Transcend JetRam DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz 1GB (JM800QLJ-1G) $18.49 x 4 Seagate Maxtor (STM3250820A) IDE 250GB ATA-133 7200RPM 8MB Cache (OEM) $57.99 Sapphire ATI RADEON HD 2400PRO 256MB DDR2 Dual Display PCI-Express Graphics Card $43.99 Can it work for OSX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickyiki Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 i'm not too sure about AMD, but you can guarantee yourself better compatibility if you go with an Intel chipset instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exio Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 What's the cheapest intel core 2 duo and mb combo that will work for sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull_Trails Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Intel will be good option than AMD i hope, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilSoldier Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 There are the new dual-core celerons, and they will be more compatible than AMD and are a damn sight cheaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whalid Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hi, I suppose it depends where you live. As someone said before, would be better if you go with INTEL, not AMD. Its easy as far I can tell. I just brought a cheap rig, almost everything worked outside of the box with Iatkos: Motherboard: GA-946GM-DS2 - great mobo - everything onboard and I can even use 2 monitors Video: Gforce 7200GS 256MB Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz 800MHz 2MB HD: SATA2 160gigs x 2 Memory: 2gigs Total: 520 US$ (aproximately) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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