Anyone here running a stable high end hackintosh?

ponder said:
Where's the SSD? :D

It's the one thing that probably makes the biggest difference to any pc/notebook.
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To be honest I think SSD's are far too expensive to warrant the speed bump. And they dont come in the capacity i want either.
 
I agree about the SSD. You should get one IMO. It makes so much more difference than CPU. Your Macbook Pro with an SSD will feel much faster than a Mac Pro or Core i7 or whatever.
 
Synaesthesia said:
I agree about the SSD. You should get one IMO. It makes so much more difference than CPU. Your Macbook Pro with an SSD will feel much faster than a Mac Pro or Core i7 or whatever.
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Doesn't that depend on what he wants to do with it though? I just waited more than an hour for Aperture to import and create previews of the weekend's images. That's mostly CPU bound.
 
Sure, that's true. some things are CPU-bound but almost all general usage in a PC are I/O bound.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Sure, that's true. some things are CPU-bound but almost all general usage in a PC are I/O bound.
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I was just assuming if someone already owns a MacBook Pro, and they're looking and adding a Mac Pro class machine, they may have something more than "general usage" in mind :)
 
Ice2Cool said:
To be honest I think SSD's are far too expensive to warrant the speed bump. And they dont come in the capacity i want either.
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Synaesthesia said:
I agree about the SSD. You should get one IMO. It makes so much more difference than CPU. Your Macbook Pro with an SSD will feel much faster than a Mac Pro or Core i7 or whatever.
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They are still pricey in all honesty but prices are dropping. Next year might be the right time to buy one I reckon.
 
ponder said:
They are still pricey in all honesty but prices are dropping. Next year might be the right time to buy one I reckon.
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Its always an option in the future! What I could do is have 2 drives - an SSD for the Operating System and a normal drive for storage of files etc.
 
Ice2Cool said:
Its always an option in the future! What I could do is have 2 drives - an SSD for the Operating System and a normal drive for storage of files etc.
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That's the general idea, ssd for OS & Apps and a normal huge HD for storage.
 
Okay, so in my infinite boredom, i gathered the prices of components from multiple websites and put them into a spreadsheet and found the lower cost for a decent system. I specced out a core i3, i5 and i7 in both a ATX and uATX form factor.

Link: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3...g1ZDctZjEyNGVlYTJmZjdh&hl=en&authkey=CI_ZibYC

Considering those prices include a R2500 case, if i get a rubbish one I could drop those prices by around R2k.
 
Did no one admire all my hard work i put into that spreadsheet?!
 
I was expecting it to open in google docs but instead it wanted me to download an xls file. Why not just paste your list into the forum? Then at least future generations can find it too.
 
Ah - its a big spreadsheet over multiple tabs. So couldnt really paste. One sec, ill upload as a diff format.
 
ponder said:
Yep, that's what I did (see sig for hardware specs.)
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html This IS the easiest way of doing things.

If you get the right board you can grab a DSDT from that site and it will be plain sailing for you where I had a few easy hoops to jump through, http://www.tonymacx86.com/dsdt.php (Browse through the database) & http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/07/custombeast-simple-personalized-post.html

Gigabyte is the way to go though ;)
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Ok so I just decided to install OS X on my new PC :)

Seems like you know what you are talking about. So:

Specs:

Mobo:
- ASUS P6X58D Premium - USB 3.0, Sata 6G, 24GB Memory supported

CPU:
- i7 930 2.8 GHz

Video Card:
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6

RAM:
- Corsair Dominator 3 x 2GB 1600MHz (to run tri-channel)

PSU:
- 1000W Corsair HX1000


Hard Drives:
2 x 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 16MB cache
2 x 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 16MB cache (running in RAID0)

Apparently the new MultiBeast supports the Ati Radeon 5870 Card.

So do I install using your first link, and then get the latest MultiBeast and it should work?

Thanks
 
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fxit_man said:
Seems like you know what you are talking about. So:

Mobo:
- ASUS P6X58D Premium - USB 3.0, Sata 6G, 24GB Memory supported

Video Card:
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6

So do I install using your first link, and then get the latest MultiBoot and it should work?
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I'm not that clued up, Synaesthesia has way more experience but the method he suggested to me a while back involved more work using MyHack.

Your motherboard has no entry in the DSDT database so don't use CustomBeast for now so you can ignore the last link I posted (for now) as it only applies to:
For now, CustomBeast is limited to Gigabyte H55/P55 motherboards and NVIDIA graphics only
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Use the first link I posted and download the iBoot ATI cd image, boot from the iBoot cd and at the chameleon screen eject it and insert the OSX Snow Leopard dvd and press F5. Follow the rest of the steps in the guide. http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Download the 10.6.4 Update before you even get started with the above it's about 930MB so it's better to get it first otherwise you are going to sit there twiddling your thumbs after the initial install before you can run MultiBeast.

Let us know how it goes.
 
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ponder said:
I'm not that clued up, Synaesthesia has way more experience but the method he suggested to me a while back involved more work using MyHack.

Your motherboard has no entry in the DSDT database so don't use CustomBeast for now so you can ignore the last link I posted (for now) as it only applies to:
Use the first link I posted and download the iBoot ATI cd image, boot from the iBoot cd and at the chameleon screen eject it and insert the OSX Snow Leopard cd and press F5. Follow the rest of the steps in the guide. http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Let us know how it goes.
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Thanks man!

I'm also looking at the Boot123 option http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=222761]here.

Quite confusing stuff though, but i'm sure it will all unfold as I start messing around with it.

Does the iBoot ATI support my graphics card? Or do I have to use this ATY_Init somehow?

Will let you guys know here :)
 
I'm not sure in all honesty. Try the iBoot ATI cd & iBoot Supported cd's first.
iBoot was recently updated wrt ATY_Init, http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/search/label/iBoot

The first time I tried this I was confused as hell looking at all the sites and not knowing wtf they were talking about and tried several methods before finding the TonyMac site. I just blindly followed his guide and ignored all the other stuff that confused me and it worked a charm.

What I'm trying to say is just follow that guide to the letter and ignore the rest of the stuff.

EDIT:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3651 So looks like your ATI cad will be supported.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3986
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2041
 
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ponder said:
I'm not sure in all honesty. Try the iBoot Supported cd & iBoot ATI cd's first.
iBoot was recently updated wrt ATY_Init, http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/search/label/iBoot

The first time I tried this I was confused as hell looking at all the sites and not knowing wtf they were talking about and tried several methods before finding the TonyMac site. I just blindly followed his guide and ignored all the other stuff that confused me and it worked a charm.
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Cheers. It seems that those 5870 ATI drivers were released after the latest iBoot though.

Searching the comments for help :)

Maybe i could try editing the latest iBoot with the 5870 supported ATY_Init
 
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