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Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Will Collier - 07-10-2010
Refurb Asrock Conroe1333 motherboards here for $21.79 shipped. Certainly not the latest or the greatest, but it's a perfectly good, OSX compatible board (I used one of these for a couple of years) for dirt cheap. Maxes out at the Core2Duo, can't handle Quad CPUs or the "i" chips.
http://3btech.net/ascocoduo10f.html
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Mini 9 - 07-10-2010
How much more (dollars) would one have to spend?
How easy is it?
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Will Collier - 07-10-2010
Mini 9 wrote:
How much more (dollars) would one have to spend?
How easy is it?
You'd need at the minimum a processor, RAM, a DVD drive, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case. From there it'd be purely your preferences. Might want a better video card (the onboard video works), a faster network card, audio (I used a cheap USB audio dongle, but I'm pretty sure the onboard audio can be made to work), etc., etc. But you'd have to try pretty hard to spend more than $400, total, to have a good working machine. Depending on how much the processor and RAM put you back, you might be able to knock a hundred or so off that total.
It's not hard to do a retail install using a Boot-132 CD (but I never tried it with 10.6, so YMMV). Google is very much your friend with it comes to Hackintosh installations... quick search just told me that this board works well with the "blackosx" boot CD.
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - decay - 07-11-2010
anything a bit better on that site that's just as compatible?
ie., 4 RAM slots or the like.
still, might get that one - Core 2 Duo processors are pretty cheap.
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Wailer - 07-11-2010
It doesn't have gigabit ethernet, so it won't fit into my attempts to build a super-cheap, energy efficient gigabit server/htpc.
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - gabester - 07-11-2010
Wailer,
Thanks for the heads up - I'd looked at the board, saw the 2 RAM slots and having just been looking at RAM prices the other night I thought I saw 4GB chips that should be compatible (667mhz RAM bus speed on that mobo right?) for $120 I thought that I could get 8GB on there for about $400 (I'd just need RAM, CPU and maybe a PS - I already have a case, drives, et cetera and likewise would be looking for a home media server.)
But with 100BaseT I would probably not be interested (although I would guess I could probably find a compatible add-in card for $20.)
g=
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Will Collier - 07-11-2010
Wailer wrote:
It doesn't have gigabit ethernet, so it won't fit into my attempts to build a super-cheap, energy efficient gigabit server/htpc.
TrendNet PCI gigabit cards are $15 or less, and work out of the box. I've got one in my main computer and another in my HTPC server. Definitely the lazy Hackintosher's choice for networking.
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Filliam H. Muffman - 07-11-2010
gabester wrote:
Wailer,
Thanks for the heads up - I'd looked at the board, saw the 2 RAM slots and having just been looking at RAM prices the other night I thought I saw 4GB chips that should be compatible (667mhz RAM bus speed on that mobo right?) for $120 I thought that I could get 8GB on there for about $400 (I'd just need RAM, CPU and maybe a PS - I already have a case, drives, et cetera and likewise would be looking for a home media server.)
But with 100BaseT I would probably not be interested (although I would guess I could probably find a compatible add-in card for $20.)
g=
Be very careful about the motherboards on that site. Lots of them have older chipsets that will not address more than 4 GB of RAM, like the 2007/2008 Mac mini and 2.16GHz/2.33GHz MacBook Pro. I think many of the boards with Intel GMA950 graphics are in that category. If you buy 4 GB DDR2 modules, you are paying a little bit of a premium for hardware that is last years technology.
For the other people in this thread, if the main purpose is as HTPC/server, why do you need more than 4 GB of RAM? More RAM takes more power. The extra 4 GB of RAM uses about as much power as a "green" 2 TB drive.
This likely sold out at Fry's in the first hour on Friday, but it has better graphics and is a great price. Not sure how easy it would be to get Snow Leopard working on it.
http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664&adid=9550579&subid=30259282&type=
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Will Collier - 07-11-2010
I tried that MSI board a few months back. Never could get it to boot into a 10.6 install and had to return it. Too bad--the price is definitely right.
Re: Head's up for Hackintoshers... - Filliam H. Muffman - 07-11-2010
Will Collier wrote:
I tried that MSI board a few months back. Never could get it to boot into a 10.6 install and had to return it. Too bad--the price is definitely right.
Thank you for the feedback. Do you know of a site that is tracking 10.6.x compatibility of bargain components like this?