ProverbialLG Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Hello, everyone. First, I want to say how excited I am to be joining such an active and advancing community. I'm a switcher of about 3 years and am looking forward to getting my hands dirty in the OSx86 scene. I want my first build to be as straight forward as possible. I'd like to have a vanilla kernel and have picked hardware with that goal in mind. Mostly, I just want some confirmation on my selections and process before pulling the trigger on newegg. MOBO: ASUS P5W DH DELUXE CPU: Core2Duo E6750 GPU: Radeon HD 3870 512MB RAM: 4x 1GB DDR2 800 HDD: Seagate 7200.10 500GB Optical: Samsung 20x DVD+-R DL According to the HCL, I'll need to add a kext for the graphics card, but if i understand correctly, I can do that after installing and booting into Leopard. (?) As far as I can tell, everything else should work out of the box. As far as I can tell, the latest iATKOS release is my best bet for a simple vanilla install. Is this the consensus? From everything I've read and taking my components into consideration, it should be an uneventful install. Is there anything else I should prepare for? Thanks in advance for any advice and I look forward to getting my hackintosh up and running. TL;DR - I picked my hardware with a vanilla osx86 install in mind. Am I making any mistakes? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95152-before-i-pull-the-trigger/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdelano Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 It all looks good to me. As far as the video card goes, if you get into the installer than you will most likely be fine when you boot back up. I have a HD2600XT that wouldn't work in the installer, or on a fresh install and requires a Natit kext to work correctly. That was fine since I had an X800 that I used for the install and other setup before I decided to put the big boy in. If you want a vanilla install as possible, I would suggest first installing the iATKOS on a smaller partition. Then from that install insert a retail Leopard DVD and install a completely vanilla install on another partition. You can even directly update to 10.5.2 from there. After replacing a few kexts (2 for me) you have as vanilla of an install as you are likely to get. There are a few guides around here, some more detailed than others about how to do this in different ways. I followed this one more or less (didnt use the scripts but looked at the as guidelines). -sdelano Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95152-before-i-pull-the-trigger/#findComment-678433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProverbialLG Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Thanks for the tips. I think I'll just pick up another HDD to do the iATKOS, then once I'm in do a retail disc install on the second HDD. Just to make sure I understand, after I do this, I can choose to boot from the retail drive and remove the system files from the iATKOS drive? Thanks also for the link to the guide. I noticed that he's using Kalyway instead of iATKOS. I realize that this isn't really the place for a discussion of different releases, but in my specific circumstances, will one serve me better than the other? Feel free to direct me to the appropriate guide/thread or just scream STFW!!! Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95152-before-i-pull-the-trigger/#findComment-678517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProverbialLG Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 I'll take it from the 60+ views and no responses that I'm overthinking this process. I've thought some more about it and I think I'll pick up a low end GPU that works out of the box according to the HCL for installing then swap for the 3870 once the kext is in. Is this necessary or am I overdoing it? </end shameless bump> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95152-before-i-pull-the-trigger/#findComment-679338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
datech50 Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Get a new G92 8800GT The HD3870 is a gamble imho it works great with the new natit from netkas on probably most machines full accel QE/CI was working gaming performance was great (BF2142 and WOW) but I had a strange blue artifacting problem-blue sparkles would show up around white images whenever there was blue and black displayed nearby. I tried 3 different HD3870s two Sapphires and one HIS all with the same results. I switched over to 8800GT since that video card is now actually supported on Real MacPros. If you use EFI you can use the graphics string pulled from a real macpro with 8800GT and you will not have to use NVinject. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95152-before-i-pull-the-trigger/#findComment-679594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbmac Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Agreed on the video card. Would stick with Nvidia over ATI...I also have been looking into the Gigabyte boards that seem to be very well supported and much cheaper. One is about $59 (atx-mini sized though) and works completely with Kalyway -- only need to add audio support. The prob with the board is max 4gb ram (and only 3.2 registered by bios or something though) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95152-before-i-pull-the-trigger/#findComment-679620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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