Originally Posted by jonb2501

I'm a new hackintosh user (6 days now). Having other things to spend my cash on besides a ~$2500 Mac Pro, but at the same time wanting more horsepower that my last generation Mac Mini, I decided to take my main PC over to the dark side.

MB: ASUS P5E
CPU:Intel Q9550 @ 2.83 GHZ, 12 MB cache
RAM: 4 GB OCZ, 2 x 2 GB.
Video: Radeon 4890
Sound: Supreme FX II
Storage: OS drive is a Seagate 250 GB SATA, addtional 1 and 1.5 TB Seagate drives for data.
PSU: Antec 1 KW modular
Case, trusty old Antec 1080 Pro, big and heavy but lots of space.

Old school rig, but serviceable.
I used iBoot and Mulibeast and had it up and running over a weekend, though it took two installs to do it. Sound works, ethernet and video work, defaulted to my Asus 1920 x 1080 monitor's native resolution. Nice and fast, stable, get the occasional spinning beachball, but disappears quickly. My next project is to install my 2nd 4890 to get crossfire going. If anyone has any pointers, that'd be great. I can live without the 2nd 4980, but I had in my Win 7 setup, and two vid cards are sooooo much nicer.
I can't get sleep to work either, but it's not on my priority list, not even my mac mini sleeps, too many bad experiences with sleep in the Windows world, so all my machines just run.
I must confess though, even though OS X is much more efficient at using system resources than Windows ever was, it runs much better with a quad core and 4 GB of ram. I can just watch those activity monitor graphs light up.

Cheers

Hey Jon can you post a tutorial for your system for your tutorial sub forum? thx for sharing ;D

Originally Posted by dsmturbo

I had posted this in another thread, but not seeing any action.
Anyone be able to tell me if this machine would run SL 10.6.6 without too much trouble, or should I look for a different machine:

HP Pavilion p6342f Desktop PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
HP Pavilion P6342F

Please look in the HCL for your mobo to check if it is compatible with OSX if it doesnt appear you can always try and report back

Originally Posted by icchansan

Please look in the HCL for your mobo to check if it is compatible with OSX if it doesnt appear you can always try and report back

Thanks icchansan, I have looked at HCl, and I can't find that motherboard. I may just grab the machine and try it. It is an H57 Express chipset

Will any of the barebones systems on this page under 200 work ??
Cheers..

Scan.co.uk: Barebones, Pre-Built System, Mini PC, Warranty, NVIDIA ION, Zotac Mini PC

Originally Posted by dsmturbo

Thanks icchansan, I have looked at HCl, and I can't find that motherboard. I may just grab the machine and try it. It is an H57 Express chipset

This motherboard is from HP you cant buy it in a store, but look the 1st page in this thread for good references and take look in the HCL for the latest mobos with OSX support.

Originally Posted by DannyN

Will any of the barebones systems on this page under 200 work ??
Cheers..

Scan.co.uk: Barebones, Pre-Built System, Mini PC, Warranty, NVIDIA ION, Zotac Mini PC

Theres some users with Barebone success but dunno if they got everything working, look in the HCL for extra info

I started a separate topic asking if anybody had had any luck building a Core i7 Sandybridge Hackintosh, and was referred to this sticky. So please forgive me if I'm being redundant, but does anybody out there know whether any Sandybridge mobos will work? All I can find in this thread is stuff pertaining to pre-Sandybridge Core i7s. Somebody gave me a Core i7 2600K for free, so naturally I have to buy a Sandybridge mobo. Should I just buy a Gigabyte mobo and hope for the best? Also, I'm a little unsure about how to use the HCL or this sticky as far as figuring out which graphics card to buy. Should I assume that if a graphics card is known to work with OS X and pre-Sandybridge mobos, it will also be OS X compatible when combined with a Sandybridge mobo and CPU? Or is it not that simple? I'm wanting a graphics card that's good for gaming, and hopefully not much more than $170.

Thank you for any advice you can offer!

hey mate I would go with the gigabyte and hope for the best... I did not even know there were mboards out for sandybridge??!?! what mboard exactly were you looking at?
I have been out of the computer hardware loop for like 7 years since my last mega build I did, and now coming back to build another computer I am after building a hackintosh as I can always be dual booting... osx is what I need right now to use in my life, as I am doing alot of music production etc... so yeh I will try to help you as I go along, as I am also going for a sandybridge build.

Yaren, yes, there are many Sandybridge motherboards available:

Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Motherboards,Intel Motherboards,LGA 1155

Here is my hackintosh Server (10.6.4 is fully working) - extremely low price...

MoBo: Gigabyte 945PL S3P(rev6.6 and the newest beta BIOS(F6))
CPU: any Dual Core or Core 2 Duo (i used E4300)
RAM: any 2x1GB DDR2 (i used Kingmax 533MHz)
GPU: Gainward 8400GS (any GF 8400GS)
HDD: any SATA disc (smaller then 1TB)
DVD: any PATA/IDE DVD writer - LG
Case and power supply - any what i found at home :-P

Total cost(i bought used parts): about 100$

Fully working OOB USB, LAN and VESA(1024x768) at DVI. SOUND is NOT working, but i didnt try some special kexts - its just server, i dont need sound ...
Intallation via iBoot Legacy, than used myHack standard installation.
Update from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 without problems. On 10.6.5 problems with USB - kernel panic(i tried to use USB kexts from 10.6.4, but not working for me)...
I'm staying on 10.6.4 - its OK...


I'am in hackint0sh totally noob, but its really easy ...