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lost the crucial component. I purchased one of the efix USB modules that allow the installation of a stock efi OS. More sophisticated hackers than myself will scoff at such a useless purchase, but I fell my time is well worth the $190 price tag to run a stock OS (no hacks). USPS tracking says that it was delivered to my work address at 846am this morning. "No way" says my driver, who arrives at 115p, like clockwork, every day. I called his manager who said no driver is even on the road at that point in the morning. So, it's lost in limbo somewhere...
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That sucks... I am hoping to put one together myself in the next month or so.
Was going to go with the Boot 132 method, but may go EFI-X to make life
easier too. Care to share your system components? I am still debating between
a quad-core or i7 setup.
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The EFI-x looks like a decent piece of hardware...but I didn't know about it when I made my quad core hackintosh. Realistically, I dont think I get close to stressing the quad cores...what does the i7 chip add?
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i7 gives you hyperthreading- double the cores. My Dual-quad core MacPro (Nehalem) at work has 16 cores and I find plenty of opportunities to peg them all.
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Is that UPS or USPS?
The latter doesn't use drivers to deliver mail.
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I did a boot132 with a GA-G31M-ES2L and a quad 2.33 that I forget the intel number for.
From a "hack" perspective, I don't think the Boot132 method is that much more invasive than the EFI-X dongle. You're still going to need custom KEXT files.
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It was my driver, daily pick-up and delivery. We ship skids of USPS Priority Mail daily and they know us well.
Core2Quad Q9550 (2.8ghz, 12MB cache)
4GB 1066 Ram
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L
GeForce 8800GS
Will post more when I finally have it up and running.
