Acidic Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Hey guys, I'm hoping to buy these parts and build a computer thats compatible with Kalyway x86. What do you guys think of these parts? Thanks, Aidan P.S. can you guys please just tell me if this build looks good, if i should change anything etc. dont send me to another topic just answer my question here, please. Unit Price Savings Total Price Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS Black Full Tower Case w/ 25CM Fan - Retail $169.99 -$10.00 Instant $159.99 DFI INFINITY 975X LGA 775 Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $99.99 -$10.00 Instant $89.99 EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail $339.99 $339.99 Thermaltake W0106RU Complies with ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V version 700W Power Supply - Retail $169.99 -$10.00 Instant $159.99 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor Model BX80562Q6600 - Retail $249.99 $249.99 CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4 - Retail $79.00 -$10.00 Instant $138.00 HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360 (0A35415) 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $109.99 -$15.00 Instant $94.99 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $69.99 -$5.00 Instant $64.99 LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model LH-20A1L-06 - Retail $37.99 -$5.00 Instant $32.99 LITE-ON Black SATA Blu-ray DVD-ROM Drive Model DH-4O1S-08 - Retail $139.99 $139.99 Subtotal: $1,470.91 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS Black Full Tower Case w/ 25CM Fan - Retail $169.99 -$10.00 Instant $159.99 I'm sure it's fine - I really don't like the glowing BS. ] DFI INFINITY 975X LGA 775 Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $99.99 -$10.00 Instant $89.99 Asus P5W (975x)- Open box $99 - Is one of the best MBs for OSX EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail $339.99 $339.99 Fine - I really like the xfx 8600 gt - Tiger Direct $69 Thermaltake W0106RU Complies with ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V version 700W Power Supply - Retail [/i [b]$169.99[/b] -$10.00 Instant $159.99 Fine Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor Model BX80562Q6600 - Retail $249.99 $249.99 Perfect ! CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4 - Retail $79.00 -$10.00 Instant $138.00 Fine - I think HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360 (0A35415) 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $109.99 -$15.00 Instant $94.99 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $69.99 -$5.00 Instant $64.99 Either/or is fine I like two 320 gb WD drives (raid0) on the P5W's "easy raid" It is faster than one drive. LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model LH-20A1L-06 - Retail $37.99 -$5.00 Instant $32.99 LITE-ON Black SATA Blu-ray DVD-ROM Drive Model DH-4O1S-08 - Retail $139.99 $139.99 Subtotal: $1,470.91 I prefer Pioneer drives. They are what apple uses and they are 100% compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 many thanks for the reply! I think I might go with your suggestion for a cpu. still deciding thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dradis Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Great CPU choice. The nvidia 8000 series driver is not included with kalyway, at least not the version i have, but i hear its out there and working fine. I think any burner will be fine as long as its SATA. My samsung SATA DVD burner worked great, and i've never had a complaint about anything samsung. just wondering one thing, why in the hell would you want a deathstar hard drive? are u just a big fan of the clicking noise? go with a seagate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 yea ill probly go for seagate. Im not entirely sure when it comes to HD choices, thanks for the seagate recommendation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 alright im gonna go with the asus p5w as the motherboard, more sata slots and everything. thx again guyshey guys, wats a compatible bluetooth and wireless internet adapter that will work for mac os x?? thx for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dradis Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 the wifi included with the p5k deluxe works with the realtek usb wifi utility. as far as bluetooth, last i checked apple is backin kensington, so i would assume it'll work with hackintosh. thinkin about buyin this one myself. its so small its almost as good as being internal. http://us.kensington.com/html/14409.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tman26 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 http://www.ralinktech.com/ they make a bunch of internal wifi cards and they all support osx, not only that but they are really cheap.. I bought two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 hey guys, ok i just got my system assembled completely, windows is working and everything. i can't boot from the mac os x kalyway install disc though i get /com.apple.boot.plist not found and obviously cant install kalyway. help is much appreciatedok **i got past it i edited some of my bios settings, now installing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 hey guys ok.... another problem, I can boot up on the kalyway disc finally ive formatted a seagate 500gb in mac os x journaled etc format. I go the the install screen, click customize select my drivers etc. Then I install, I wait about 10 mins or so and get the message UNKNOWN ERROR with a big yellow triangle. Not sure where to go from here, would REALLY like to make this rig i bought for 1500 work... ANY SUGGESTIONS? thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 ok.. I got it to completely install, I read in one of the topics that changing the name from Mac os x to Macosx would solve it. well suprisingly it did. only problem is i have no idea how to boot it. All the files are on the hard drive, i just cant seem to get the computer to boot from it, ive used the startup menu selector on the cd, it doesnt even appear, ive used acronis also to try and boot up. not sure what to do ***btw when i boot up on windows xp, and open acronis disk director, it gives me a warning message, about a unsupported hard drive etc etc. unsupported harddrive is the drive i installed mac os x on. Everything about the drive looks like it should work, it has a MBR boot partition and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 I think the problem is that the drive isnt being recongnized because i have windows xp on one drive and mac on another one. Ive been searching around and someone said to modify the boot.ini " copy the chain0 file to the C:\ drive... edit C:\boot.ini and add a line called C:\CHAIN0="Mac OS X" not sure what to do here either ANYBODY please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyler durden's bile duct Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 in my bios settings... i can choose which drive to boot from first... sata or ide... i have a sata hd that has osx on it and a ide hd that i use for time machine... in my bios i set it to boot from sata first... if they are the same interface... try setting one to master and the other to slave... thats all i can think of if they are on different drives... im not to keen to the whole dual booting osx though i used to triple boot windows with different flavors of linux back in the day <shrugs> good luck... as far as the renaming the partition... for kalyway (i only know about kalyway cause its the only distro ive used).. it errors out when u use spaces in ur disk name... so that post was 100% correct as you found out... good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 well thanks very much for the response. i'm gonna try messing around with the bios settings, kinda already have. I kno there has to be a way to make it recognize the drive. i kno ppl have booted off two different drives before ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR DUAL BOOTING PLEASE...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dradis Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 what distro are you using? it sounds like your partition is not set as active. I know kalyway sets the partition to active for you, but some others dont. try using a win98 boot disk to get into fdisk. use that to set the OSX partition as active. I'm pretty sure each physical drive can have its own active partition, so if you have windows on a different HDD, you should be able to use bios to select boot drive. for example, i hit f8 at the bios splash screen to load the boot menu. hope some of that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acidic Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 well i figured everything out. the problem, was completely because i didnt check over everything when i was installing in the kalyway disc. I formatted the hard drive with mbr etc, under the kalyway customize tab, i chose the guid bootloader, which was a big mistake . all i had to do was choose the mbr and it worked . my current problem is now my mobo. anytime i want to boot on the mac drive i have to edit my bios settings . And when i want to run xp, i have to default everything. kinda annoying heres the settings im using, if anyone has any suggestions for the p5w dh, and NOT changing bios settings every time plz let me kno. thx bios settings -Go to IDE configuration and change the ide/sata mode to AHCI -Enable "Execute Disable function" -Turn off Speedstep Settings (unless you plan to use a hacked speedstep kernel) -Change the Jmicron Controller to AHCI (only if you are using Jmicron, otherwise, disable it) -MicroCode Update: Enabled -Max CPUID Limite: Enabled -ACPI2 support : yes -ACPI APIC: Enabled -Suspend mode: S3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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