[quote="dah_"]Hi,

Im very new to this about hackintosh, but I got really interested of building one myself! Im not to good at computers / components, but I have read around for some week now how to build one.

This is my setup so far:

Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-960
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7, X58
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 12GB
XFX GeForce GTX 285 670M 1GB PhysX CUDA
Corsair HX 750W PSU
Cooler Master ATCS 840 Big Tower Black
WD Caviar® Black 2TB
Corsair SSD Force Series 2,5" 80GB

Anyone has an idea if this setup will work?

Let me know?

It will do excellently well. What version of Snow Leopard install CD do you have? If it is 10.6.2 or earlier, it will not have support for your GTX 285 and you will need a cheap (<USD$50) graghics card like the 8800GS to do the actual install, update to 10.6.4, install latest graphics update, reboot, shutdown, then install the GTX 285.
If you can get the rev. 1.0 board, it is extremely easy to get sound/ethernet working. The rev.2.0 board, sound is fairly easy, but ethernet needs more work. Read the posts here for more info: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=117

[quote="dah_"][quote="Going Bald"][quote="dah_"]Hi,

Im very new to this about hackintosh, but I got really interested of building one myself! Im not to good at computers / components, but I have read around for some week now how to build one.

This is my setup so far:

Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-960
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7, X58
Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 12GB
XFX GeForce GTX 285 670M 1GB PhysX CUDA
Corsair HX 750W PSU
Cooler Master ATCS 840 Big Tower Black
WD Caviar® Black 2TB
Corsair SSD Force Series 2,5" 80GB

Anyone has an idea if this setup will work?

Let me know?

It will do excellently well. What version of Snow Leopard install CD do you have? If it is 10.6.2 or earlier, it will not have support for your GTX 285 and you will need a cheap (<USD$50) graghics card like the 8800GS to do the actual install, update to 10.6.4, install latest graphics update, reboot, shutdown, then install the GTX 285.
If you can get the rev. 1.0 board, it is extremely easy to get sound/ethernet working. The rev.2.0 board, sound is fairly easy, but ethernet needs more work. Read the posts here for more info: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=117

Im definitely gonna have snow leopard 10.6.4 so that wont be a problem!

I have this stupid noob question, what is rev 1.0 / 2.0 how can I know what rev my mobo have?

Thanks guys for the fast replies and hopefully this will be in my first hackintosh soon!

If you go to the Giga-byte websight here: http://www.giga-byte.com/products/produ ... id=3527#ov and look at the picture of the motherboard, in the upper left hand corner next to the hole for the backplane screw it will say REV. 1.0 or REV. 2.0.
Before buying you might contact your supplier and ASK what version of the board they have in stock.

If you go to the Giga-byte websight here: http://www.giga-byte.com/products/produ ... id=3527#ov and look at the picture of the motherboard, in the upper left hand corner next to the hole for the backplane screw it will say REV. 1.0 or REV. 2.0.
Before buying you might contact your supplier and ASK what version of the board they have in stock.

Ok I see, I looked at the site where I was planing of buying from and it var rev 1.0 so that is great if its easier with that!

Just so you know, he is referring to your DVD you will use when you install the OS. Some versions are 10.6.0 and some are 10.6.2 (meaning after you install your system will be at that release) if your DVD is 10.6.0 you will have to use a different video card at first, then you can switch it out for the higher card after you get the system to 10.6.4 and install the new graphics update.

Ah I see, I will buy the newest OS X DVD and its v. 10.6.3 on that one. So that would work right?

[quote="Going Bald"][quote="dah_"]

If you go to the Giga-byte websight here: http://www.giga-byte.com/products/produ ... id=3527#ov and look at the picture of the motherboard, in the upper left hand corner next to the hole for the backplane screw it will say REV. 1.0 or REV. 2.0.
Before buying you might contact your supplier and ASK what version of the board they have in stock.

Ok I see, I looked at the site where I was planing of buying from and it var rev 1.0 so that is great if its easier with that!

Just so you know, he is referring to your DVD you will use when you install the OS. Some versions are 10.6.0 and some are 10.6.2 (meaning after you install your system will be at that release) if your DVD is 10.6.0 you will have to use a different video card at first, then you can switch it out for the higher card after you get the system to 10.6.4 and install the new graphics update.

Ah I see, I will buy the newest OS X DVD and its v. 10.6.3 on that one. So that would work right?

That will do it. The rev. 1.0 is definitely easier. I had a little trouble at first because my SL retail disk was 10.6.0 and the Core i3, i5, i7 cpus were not supported until 10.6.2. System profiler thought I had a core2duo and the speed was all wrong!

Awesome, Im pretty psyched about building this one! So much cheaper then Mac Pro.

[quote="dah_"]I was thinking of buying the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5, X58 instead of the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7, X58 because its abit cheaper and I didnt really see any difference of them. Both are rev 1.0.

You guys know if there is gonna be any difference for this setup or should I stick with the UD7?

The difference between the X58A-UD7 and the X58A-UD5 is minor - mostly the way the north bridge is cooled - the UD5 would have more heat issues if extreme overclocking with/and/or heavy video graphics processing is involved than the UD7 (the PCIe slots all go through the north bridge). Otherwise, as long as you get the same rev. model, they are the same spec according to the giga-byte web sight. Same socket, same PCI slots, same audio, same dual lan, same back panel connections.

If you only need 1 ethernet port instead of 2, the GA-X58A-UD3R is the same as the UD5 and is probably less expensive than either the UD5 or the UD7, but again, you want the rev. 1.0 board if you can find it.

[quote="dah]
Alright, thanks for the input. My mainly reason to getting this computer is to use it for Motion Graphics (After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya etc). So maybe the UD7 fits me the best then.

The silent pipe finned cooler on the UD7 works quite well. A temp sensor placed near the silent pipe gives me about 45 deg C at idle and 65 deg C when playing video intensive games or watching movies (some of that temp may be from the Noctua cpu cooler - they are only about 1/2" apart fin efge to fin edge)
My cpu idles at 39-41 deg C and, when ripping DVDs with Handbrake, it once got up to 85 deg C - under normal use it will run about 49-51 deg C (normal use being office applications, cruising the internet, etc.).
IMO, the extra cooling was well worth the additional cost.

Just butting in but I'd say get the UD5 rev1 if you can find one and spend the change on a noctua cooler for the cpu. Then you can overclock safely and easily, reduce noise and I don't think you'd notice the difference. Who needs two ethernets?

[quote="dah_"]Just out of curiosity... What score do you think this machine would get from Geekbench? If I clock the speed up on the cpu?

My bench scores are here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=65&start=10
taken in 32 bit mode with the base clock speed of the i7 920

[quote="dah_"]Thansk for the replies.

I just looked at the new iMac 27'' with 8GB ram and i7 cpu and that machine had like 10500≈ points in geekbench and its like $500 cheaper then the machine I will build.
Do you think the machine I will build will top that result or is it fairly the same?
Otherwise I was thinking of grabbing the iMac if it will give the same result.

thanks.

I just built an i7 930 over the weekend and was a bit disappointed to see a 8300 geekbench score. Running it in 64bits bumped that up to ~9500. The only way to get the 12k+ sexy scores is too overclock it hard but that fortunately the i7 loves. I would say that unless you love building PCs and tweaking and fettling get an imac i7. Quiet, gorgeous display, fantastic looks, sensible price for what you get, bound to have a great resale value, and works OOB with full Apple support. The reason hackintosh is so big now is the stupid price of apple towers. This i7 imac changes that equation quite a bit. Only gamers and audio/visual pros with loads of DSP on PCI need towers really so unless you belong in those categories walk away.

[quote="dah_"][quote="Burger"]
I just built an i7 930 over the weekend and was a bit disappointed to see a 8300 geekbench score. Running it in 64bits bumped that up to ~9500. The only way to get the 12k+ sexy scores is too overclock it hard but that fortunately the i7 loves. I would say that unless you love building PCs and tweaking and fettling get an imac i7. Quiet, gorgeous display, fantastic looks, sensible price for what you get, bound to have a great resale value, and works OOB with full Apple support. The reason hackintosh is so big now is the stupid price of apple towers. This i7 imac changes that equation quite a bit. Only gamers and audio/visual pros with loads of DSP on PCI need towers really so unless you belong in those categories walk away.


The graphiccard is quite a big deal in this as well. And as I said before I dont know that much about computers. But I dont see that much difference from the XFX GeForce GTX 285 670M 1GB PhysX CUDA and the ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM.

Both those cards are fantastic. Only spoddy gamers get uptight about the differences. To people that don't want to build a flight simulator in their bedroom it makes no difference. I don't know much about working in 3D, I'm an audio professional, but any card now available will I'm sure cover everything for you.

This overclocked quadcore I'm on is 100% reliable (after months of tweaking) and at 3.5GHz comes very close to the 8300 from the i7 (about 7500). I prefer this machine to the i7 because it's near silent - many things affect how good you see a computer is and for me this is a big factor. You can build this machine for around £650 - totally different ballpark to an i7 build.