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The Merged Hackintosh Thread

What describes you?

  • No way would I build a hackintosh

    Votes: 349 23.0%

  • I'd consider it if Apple doesn't provide a new Mini or headless iMac in the next three months

    Votes: 185 12.2%

  • I'm considering it right now

    Votes: 578 38.2%

  • I already built one

    Votes: 403 26.6%
  • Total voters
    1,515
richthomas said:
thanks. so get the Zalman fan controller but which one? can you control the fan speed in OSx86 or only by hardware?
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I'm sure you can control the fans by software, but I haven't tried yet. The 9700 already comes with a single fan controller. It comes with this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118217

The only problem with using that one is the fact that you have to open up your case to change the fan speed. Not very intuitive. :(

If you have other fans in the case that you want to control as well, I'd suggest getting something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813999251

This one is the one that I have, since I have 4 120mm fans. You can connect up to SIX fans with this controller, BUT you can only controller 4 variably. The last two of them, it's either 5V or 12V.

BUT, if you have more than 4 that you wanna control variably (SIX of them)...Here's one that does the trick:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999171

OR, if you want something, stylish, and tells your case temps, as well as digital fan control, look no further than this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999174

Heard that one isn't so great...And the reviews on Newegg aren't so great either...:rolleyes: Hope this helps you out!
 
richthomas said:
yeh i meant control in OS X. probably will only work in Windows. thanks for the fan controller recommendations!
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No problem.

And actually, I like physical variable knobs better than motherboard based fan controllers. Why? Because I sometimes hate hearing the fan suddenly speed up, then slow down, etc. I like the nice, steady, speeds. And I get to control them to however I ilke. :D
 
Wisenos said:
anyone have ever tried leopard on a p4p800-e deluxe?
with a p4 3.2e
3gb of dr 400
msi fx 5900 xtx 128mb
sound blaster audigy se or value not sure yet
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all your hardware should work, if you are ready to. ;)
that's the board i first booted deadmoo on. what a day that was!

10.5.4 Leopard is running flawlessly on my old Asrock P4Dual-915GL,
a lower performing board than the P4P800. have fun!
 
my EEE-hackintosh

A step in the other direction...

I got Leopard (10.5.4) up and running on my 10" EEE 1000h. I paid $350 (with a coupon) and then added the airport extreme card out of my mini, a spare 2GB stick of ram. Webcam, bluetooth, sleep, etc are all working. It's 4.5 lbs and $2000 cheaper than my MBP, and it's faster than our old iBook G4. The only issue is sound; I'm using a usb sound stick from amazon ($3).

I'm pretty pleased at the moment.

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jackiecanev2 said:
A step in the other direction...

I got Leopard (10.5.4) up and running on my 8.9" EEE 901. I paid $350 (with a coupon) and then added the airport extreme card out of my mini, a spare 2GB stick of ram, and an old 80gb zif drive. Webcam, bluetooth, etc are all working. It's 4.5 lbs and $2000 cheaper than my MBP, and it's faster than our old iBook G4.

I'm pretty pleased at the moment.

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I was sooooo close to doing this. How well does sleep work? That was my main concern
 
jackiecanev2 said:
A step in the other direction...

I got Leopard (10.5.4) up and running on my 8.9" EEE 901. I paid $350 (with a coupon) and then added the airport extreme card out of my mini, a spare 2GB stick of ram, and an old 80gb zif drive. Webcam, bluetooth, etc are all working. It's 4.5 lbs and $2000 cheaper than my MBP, and it's faster than our old iBook G4.

I'm pretty pleased at the moment.

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Looks comparable to an MacBook Air to me.
 
The very reason I am now 110% Mac based, and abandoned Linux and Windows as my primary OS, is because I installed a hacked version of Tiger on my old Acer laptop from curiosity alone. At first I hated it and laughed... but suddenly - days later, I had a COMPLETE U-turn in my attitude, and grew to love it SO much, that to date I have purchased FIVE Macs, and about to buy my biggest Mac purchase ever; Mac Pro! :D

Simple Mac... easy Mac... supported Mac... beautiful Mac...

I love Macs - they are by NO means perfect or crash free 100%, but VERY close. Some PC company guy today, told me Macs were a "dying breed" and when I informed him Windows ran on Macs he said "yes, but VERY slowly". I then continued to inform him that my 2008 24" iMac had produced a Vista Ultimate score of "5.6"... he said "OH!..."

Just because you sell PCs, doesn't mean you HAVE to hate Macs; his justifications for not using them, burned out within a couple of minutes... ROFL!. When I told him that the loudest component in my iMac was the HDD, I don't think he believed me... but then again, if all you know is peecee, you can be forgiven for such ignorance I suppose. I mentioned the whole hardware design being in Apple's hands, and then contracted out to Foxconn and the like to manufacture; I think said person was trying to tell me that the logic boards Apple use, are bought from manufacturers as "off the shelf" existing, stock models. Oh what a learning curve he has yet to follow!. :)

I don't mind so much if people are open minded, but it's HILARIOUS to hear some of the blinkered cr*p that comes out of peecee fanboys mouths; they really are stuck in their noisy, tin box world.

Thanks Woz, Jobs and Ive - you MADE the Personal Computer!.
:apple::apple::apple::apple::apple:/:apple::apple::apple::apple::apple:
 
Here is my play on "Hackintosh"... I decided to do the opposite. I call my machine "Macrosoft Wintosh":

macpro.jpg


Took a bit of hacking to get that DVD out of the flimsy Apple cellophane sleeve... but it was worth my effort!. Vista installed without errors. I had to download NOTHING, and patch NOTHING. It all SEEMS to work out of the box, but as with Hackintoshes, no doubt M$'s latest official update will mess it all up ;).

Easier AND legal - this is Hackintosh the RIGHT way (and logical way) round.
 
unlokia said:
Here is my play on "Hackintosh"... I decided to do the opposite. I call my machine "Macrosoft Wintosh":

macpro.jpg


Took a bit of hacking to get that DVD out of the flimsy Apple cellophane sleeve... but it was worth my effort!. Vista installed without errors. I had to download NOTHING, and patch NOTHING. It all SEEMS to work out of the box, but as with Hackintoshes, no doubt M$'s latest official update will mess it all up ;).

Easier AND legal - this is Hackintosh the RIGHT way (and logical way) round.
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of course if you dont mind paying at least 2800 for an upgradeable mac:rolleyes:
 
AND support from both M$ and Apple, and legality!. Don't hold out much hope on the resale value of a Hackintosh, nor desirablity and "oooh" factor.. but hey :D
 
unlokia said:
AND support from both M$ and Apple, and legality!. Don't hold out much hope on the resale value of a Hackintosh, nor desirablity and "oooh" factor.. but hey :D
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I will never sell my Hackintosh. It is my baby. It will never become obsolete since I can update it to infinity.
 
I have spent thousands of dollars buying computers, monitors and printers from Apple. Because I got tired of waiting for an Intel Mac tower, I just built my own. And no, I will not buy a Mac Pro.
 
Cave Man said:
The dual-core Atom boards should start shipping by the end of the month. Look for geekbench scores to improve when those boxes appear.
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Boards (D945GCLF2) with the Atom 330 are actually showing up in stock at some online U.S. resellers now @ ~$90.00. The 330s should make for some interesting systems...
 
I love my Hackintosh. Only cost ~$1100 to build and is faster than any other 4 core Mac Pro. Geekbench score of 5781!
 

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nomar383 said:
I was sooooo close to doing this. How well does sleep work? That was my main concern
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Sleep works fine. In fact, it goes to sleep faster than any MB/MBP/Air/iBook I've ever had. There is lid-activated sleep, but no lid-activated wake; when you open the lid, the power button pulses and you have to press it but it wakes in an instant.

kabunaru said:
Looks comparable to an MacBook Air to me.
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Yeah, it's not anywhere near the Air. My MBA geekbenched around 1700 or so with the 1.6/HDD version. However, it costs about 1/5th of what my Air did, and is much smaller and uglier. However, it smoked my iBook (1.43 G4/1.5Gb RAM) which, IIRC, came it at around 500 or so.
 
DoFoT9 said:
very impressive!!!!!

me want me want

i wonder how the E8400/E8500 compares to that
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Probably faster than that as the Geekbench score does not seem to take into account the extra cores in the machine only the MHz the processor runs at when doing its testing. At least that is my experience comparing my results to others I have seen and using my machine if I lower the overclock I get lower results if I put it back the results are higher again. Seems to be a 1:1 relationship if you overclock by 25% the Geekbench score is 25% higher.
 
Cave Man said:
Geekbench does indeed work with multiple cores, unlike Xbench. All you have to do is compare the Core Solo and Core Duo models of Mac Minis to see that.
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Perhaps with going from single to dual but not from dual to quad unless I was doing something wrong when I ran the program before and after upgrading my machine from dual to quad there was really not much of a difference to speak of, I was rather disappointed seeing that actually. Now it definitely makes a difference when I use a program that makes use of all the cores that's for sure.
 
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