The slow march towards Hackintosh

[anonymouse1]

I'm trying to save bucks, so here's were I am so far (all include shipping):

Item My Price Newegg Price

New Q9550 $170 $249

ICorsair VX550 $55.00 $92 (after $10 rebate)

Antec Sonata v2 $20 v3 $116

I'm still looking for a deal on the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P, and I've got to figure out what I'm doing for a video card. And I'll pick up a couple of 1TB hard drives on sale.

So far, so good!

[ztirffritz]

I'm really surprised that no one is selling "Hackintosh" kits. All the pieces sold individually, but collected in one place for a known working Hackintosh configuration. We've seen what happens if you sell the computer assembled, but maybe just refer to them as 'Fruit Friendly' PC kits, or something like that.

[Will Collier]

You should at least price out i7 and i5 setups. The Q9550 is pretty long in the tooth. i7 920's are in the same general price range--but admittedly, the board and RAM are going to be pricier than the versions you're looking at.

[decay]

http://microcenter.com/single_product_re...id=0302727

Core i7 920 - 2.67GHz Quad-Core
Number of Threads 8 Processing Threads
Level 2 Cache 256KB (per core)
Level 3 Cache 8MB
Socket 1366

$199

[M A V I C]

Will Collier wrote:
You should at least price out i7 and i5 setups. The Q9550 is pretty long in the tooth. i7 920's are in the same general price range--but admittedly, the board and RAM are going to be pricier than the versions you're looking at.

QFE. I know hardware prices have gone up a little bit, but last time I ran the numbers an i5 setup was cheaper and much faster than a Q9550 setup.

[Panopticon]

:agree: with the i5/i7 scheme, especially if you're going to buy new RAM.

MicroCenter sells the Q9550 in-store for $180 + tax.
As noted above, the Core i7 920 is only $20 more!

:priate:

[anonymouse1]

Thanks, folks. I considered and passed on the i5/i7. And after looking long and hard on the numbers, it's a wash, other than the hyperthreading piece. The real upside of i5/i7 is the future proofing, which isn't a big issue for me in this case.

[MacArtist]

This seemed like a good price for the Gigabyte logic board you were looking at. Cheaper than newegg.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_produc...id=0314336

edit: Sorry this price was for the UD3L.