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Hello,

 

I currently own a mac but it's too slow and I'm getting annoyed at apple not bringing out the intel power mac. I don't want such a twiddly little screen for my mac as on the imac so I guess I will have to build one with pc hardware :/

 

What is the perfect pc hardware setup for osx86 patched to run on? Money is no object - but everything must run as well as it does on a proper apple otherwise I'll hold out for Apple to sort their lives out.

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something like this...

motherboard w/o Nforce 4 chipset, trust me, if you use Serial ATA drives OSX won't see them

200GB hard drive - you can use something much smaller, but I like big hard drives

Radeon X850 PRO(AGP) - Quartz and OpenGL work with this card

mostly any cd/dvd drives you want

check the wiki for good network cards - try to be flexible if you only find ethernet ones, all the wireless cards need very unstable drivers and are not worth the hassle

AMD athlon64 3200+ venice processor - make sure you get the venice kind, it supports SSE3

 

 

 

something like this...

motherboard w/o Nforce 4 chipset, trust me, if you use Serial ATA drives OSX won't see them

200GB hard drive - you can use something much smaller, but I like big hard drives

Radeon X850 PRO(AGP) - Quartz and OpenGL work with this card

mostly any cd/dvd drives you want

check the wiki for good network cards - try to be flexible if you only find ethernet ones, all the wireless cards need very unstable drivers and are not worth the hassle

AMD athlon64 3200+ venice processor - make sure you get the venice kind, it supports SSE3

Hello,

 

I currently own a mac but it's too slow and I'm getting annoyed at apple not bringing out the intel power mac. I don't want such a twiddly little screen for my mac as on the imac so I guess I will have to build one with pc hardware :/

 

What is the perfect pc hardware setup for osx86 patched to run on? Money is no object - but everything must run as well as it does on a proper apple otherwise I'll hold out for Apple to sort their lives out.

 

Be sure to search the boards for additional info, cus this has been discussed a few times

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