Mechmess Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 I get to have the pleasure of building my friend a kick a$$ OSx86 box for his birthday(his parents are supplying the money). Now he wants to be able to game in windows but run OS 10 most of the time. The best way to do I have gathered would be to get a motherboard with intel graphics and put a Nvidia card in there and just switch the monitor cable to intel when in osx and to nvidia whenever he wants to boot windows. My only concern is if the OSx will recognise the SATA and boot from it. I will be running 10.4.5 The motherboard I am thinking of getting is the D945GNTL i checked the wiki and it is reported fully working except for the sound which can be fixed by editing kext. For a processor i chose the Pentium D 920 Dual core- will the performance take that much of a hit during gaming with the game trying to thread it though 2 processors- i have heard that dual core chips are not good for gaming My graphics card will be a eVGA Geforce 7600GT 256MB card - kinda on a budget Hard drive- Western Digital WD3200KS 320GB SATA 3.0 drive with a 16MB cache DVD Burner- ND-3550A - Hopefully it works the 3550 is reported to but i dont know about the a Now for a wireless cards was a little tougher to chose i want to go with the D-Link DWL-G520 just because i have had good luck with Dlink cards in the past. My PS if it is an interest to anyone is an Antec True Power 2.0 550W Now my question to you is- any suggestions/comments and could you please tell me if you have any of these components give me what issues you experienced? Thanx a ton - Mechmess Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13596-d945gntl-based-box/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechmess Posted April 1, 2006 Author Share Posted April 1, 2006 No one out there got anything to say? bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13596-d945gntl-based-box/#findComment-87100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqualeviathan Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 For a processor i chose the Pentium D 920 Dual core- will the performance take that much of a hit during gaming with the game trying to thread it though 2 processors- i have heard that dual core chips are not good for gaming You wont even have a performance hit. If the game isn't designed to run on multiple threads it won't "try to thread" it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13596-d945gntl-based-box/#findComment-87117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 ive had very good luck with plextor dvd burners. i have a PX-712SA running on sata and its blazing fast right outta the box. fully compatible with mac no kexts to add or modify or patchburn to do. they run from 75 to 100 bucks. also the new PX-716S and SA also burns at 16x and DL capable. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13596-d945gntl-based-box/#findComment-87229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezek Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 just try to make sure the motherboard, (since you're saying it has onboard graphics) has Quartz Extreme. it's just a very nifty thing to have it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13596-d945gntl-based-box/#findComment-87269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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