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The Merged Hackintosh Thread
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sure, if your not wanting to play the very latest games at good frame rates/quality the 7300 is indeed very decent! cheap too!
Temp Monitor should do it - however it only reads cpu and hard drive temps since the other components are Mac specific.
Temperature Monitor 4.7 download
As for a cheap QE/CI card, you could go for the GeForce 8400GS which is dirt cheap these days. I got a fanless version to go into a server.
Also has a hdmi interface which works in OSX so might be a good choice for a media centre.
Temperature Monitor 4.7 download
As for a cheap QE/CI card, you could go for the GeForce 8400GS which is dirt cheap these days. I got a fanless version to go into a server.
Also has a hdmi interface which works in OSX so might be a good choice for a media centre.
Would you go with 256 or 512MB? Any particular brand that you like?Temp Monitor should do it - however it only reads cpu and hard drive temps since the other components are Mac specific.
Temperature Monitor 4.7 download
As for a cheap QE/CI card, you could go for the GeForce 8400GS which is dirt cheap these days. I got a fanless version to go into a server.
Also has a hdmi interface which works in OSX so might be a good choice for a media centre.
Just about nothing works there now. They are having database errors
Does anybody know how to fix the screen resolution? It's stuck at 1024x768 on a 1280x800 panel.
It's a intel 4500mhd
Thanks for the Temperature Monitor reference. It works great.
Would you get the 256 or 512MB video card?
Is 1024 x 768 your only resolution? That is the default, to get other resolutions, you must have the correct video drivers.
There is only about a couple of pounds difference between the two, so you may as well go for the 512MB as I did, but either should work equally well. The 8400 offers probably the best price/performance ratio of the bargain basement cards. Brands are not massively important, all should work, but the Gainward is silent, so that is why I bought it over , say, PNY or XFX. Additionally, it is fully supported, so native drivers with an EFI string in your com.apple.boot.plist is all you need. Other cards that sort of work, like the ATI 2400 need a bit more tinkering around, and life is too short for that.
I would go with a 8xxx rather than 7xxx card for one reason only, which is that Apple may drop support for older cards in the future as the 7xxx does not feature in any Intel Mac product and Snow Leopard is Intel only.
For a short-term hackintosh project, however, just go with the cheapest card you can find from those supported, especially as you will not be working the card too hard.
As for temp readings in XP, there are a ton of such apps. Here's a decent benchmarking tool, similar to Sisoft Sandra, which is being given away HERE
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the 4500 hanst been problematic, its been damn near impossible. Hate to break it to you, dmmcintyre, but your 4500 is going to be stuck at 1024 for a very long time (if not forever).
You can probably force the higher resolution but you wont get CI/QE.
Next time you bot up, type this boot flag in:
Code:
"Graphics Mode"="1280x800x32"<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>"Graphics Mode"="1280x800x32"</string>
If you dont know how to edit that file i copied someone elses post from IM:
You want an 8xxx and not a 7xxx series if you want any hope of using OpenCL in Snow Leopard.
Since I have no plans for Snow Leopard, would there be any other reasons not to go with 7xxx?
You might save a few dollars, but the 8 series is worth it. You may not care much about 10.6 right now, but you dont want to get a few months down the road and wish you had a card that works with OpenCL.
Price is not really an issue. Card compatibility with a Hackintosh is the most important reason for me. Since the 7xxx is older, I figured more solutions were available to make it work with the Hack.
I figure that Snow Leopard and Hackintosh are going to be very difficult partners.
Why do you figure that?
Anyway, 8400GS is really cheap, so I think that'll be my choice as a replacement card.
Anyway, 8400GS is really cheap, so I think that'll be my choice as a replacement card.
I've owned a 17' MBP. I now own an iMac. I also own a DELL Vostro A90 (business-side DELL Mini 9).
It wasn't difficult to install OSX on it and I just love this little netbook. I can't wait to see what Apple unveils in the fall, but in the interim, I'm having fun.
It wasn't difficult to install OSX on it and I just love this little netbook. I can't wait to see what Apple unveils in the fall, but in the interim, I'm having fun.
Nope. Already running on Netbooks, it seems and with fewer kexts needed than for Leopard. There really is nothing that spectacularly obscure with current Mac hardware for any worries on that score. Having said that, there is little interest in getting SL hackintoshes up and running while it is still in the beta testing phase.
The 8400GS is natively supported with current Apple kexts. No hacking needed whatsoever. What 'solutions' are you actually looking for? Older does not always equate with better support. Remember older means more likely to lose support going forward.
I have a Dell laptop that will not take Vista or Win 7. Not because it is incapable of running it, but because graphics drivers stopped at XP. Microsoft laid down stipulations for WDDM drivers for Vista, which excluded the discrete ATI graphics chip in my Dell, so I get non-accelerated VGA drivers under Vista or properly accelerated ATI drivers under XP.
Just wait until your next random software application upgrade says 10.6+ required and the same problem occurs with older graphics cards under SL as I encountered above.
My new Hackintosh is running on the integrated GMA3100 at 1024 x 768. For now, that works fine. Based upon your and other's recommendations, I will get the 8400GS with 512MB later.
My main apps are MS Office 2008, iWork 2008, Photoshop CS, Appleworks 6, Aperture, and others. Everything works just fine with my setup, so I really do not need better graphics. These apps do the job, and I never download upgrades to my apps even though they are free. I figure that if it works for me, why upgrade. To be more specific, in the past, I did download upgrades to legal apps, and they corrupted my hard drive forcing me to re-install the OS and all apps.
Very cool. The only people who claim hacs are difficult have never used one. The A90 wasnt even built with the intention of running osx on it and it performs perfectly, so you can imagine how a desktop custom-built to run osx is incredible.
Need help with Blu-ray ROM access
Allright everyone, I need a little help. A new Blu-ray ripping app is out for OS X, but I cannot access my Blu-ray ROM drive because OS X blocks access to it:
http://www.makemkv.com/osxmmc/
Does anyone know what plist needs to be modified to allow access to ROM drives? I'd like to test this software out, but can't until I get access to my BR-ROM drive.
Allright everyone, I need a little help. A new Blu-ray ripping app is out for OS X, but I cannot access my Blu-ray ROM drive because OS X blocks access to it:
http://www.makemkv.com/osxmmc/
Does anyone know what plist needs to be modified to allow access to ROM drives? I'd like to test this software out, but can't until I get access to my BR-ROM drive.