bigdaddy Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Thought some of you might be interested in building a dirt cheap, but highly compatible Hackintosh, so here it is. Kalyway 10.5.1 installed without problems and it overclocks to speeds faster than all but the MacPros. I'm running EFI/Vanilla Kernel on this hardware. Asus P5L-MX Micro Atx Motherboard $44 (Open Box at NewEgg) Intel E2160 $70 (1.8GHz dual core, overclockable to 3.4GHz) 2GB OCZ Gold DDR2-800 $20.99 (After Rebate at ClubIT.com - Normally $45) WD 80GB SATA $42 DVD-RW Drive IDE $27 LinkWorld Prescot mATX case with 430W PSU $23 D-LINK DFE-528TX NIC $5 (the built in Ethernet doesn't work.) Audio Advantage Amigo USB Sound Card $29 (the built in sound only works for sound out. This usb device not only gives you sound in, but also gives optical surround output for DVD playback.) That's $261 or $285 if you can't get the rebate (expires 1/31/08 so hurry). I also bought a few misc. cables and doodads, including a Keyspan RF remote for FrontRow I picked up on Ebay for $9 that's normally closer to $50, I think. I also used a USB keyboard and mouse that I already had. This system is fully working except for WiFi (Airport), but there are a couple of USB WiFi cards that are OSX compatible. I didn't have to buy a graphics card because this has the intel GMA 950 built in which is the same GFX that's in last generation iMacs and MacBooks. I did however get a couple of cool add-ons since I first built this: an ATI x1800xt and a Mac keyboard, but those weren't necessary by any means, just cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invi Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 nice build mine is also a dirty cheap one but runs like hell =)) Gigabyte GA945GCMX-S2 55 EUR Intel COre 2 Duo 4500 @ 2,2 GHZ 92 EUR Corsair Twinx 2gb 667 36 EUR Belkin Bluetooth usb dongle 11 EUR 7900gs video card 60 EUR total 254 EUR Sound and Lan working out of the box. thanks to my belkin bt dongle my wireless mighty mouse even works =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddy Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 thanks to my belkin bt dongle my wireless mighty mouse even works =) Cool, BT! I was wondering about a compatible blue tooth device today as I was drooling over the new wireless keyboard at an Apple Store. What model is your belkin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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