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Awww yeah. just finished upgrading my hackintosh to OSX 10.6.3 and it all works!

for shits n giggles I configured the same hardware on the apple site for the Mac Pro, they want $6899 for it! Not including the monitors! GTFO.

Dual boot OSX and Win 7 FTMFW.

lol unfortunately I need to run OSX to do iPhone dev stuff, so I bought an official OSX cd for $25 and chucked it on my PC which I spent $138 on making compatible... as opposed to the cheapest, shittiest machine you can buy from apple that runs OSX which costs $800.

haha you beat the system Shan :bunny:

god damn Snow Leopard / Adobe epic failing makes me rage, talk about shitty software. The mind boggles that Snow Leopard can't even work properly in a domain, needs specific postscript drivers for copiers (very hit and miss too), and often has random meltdowns!

lol unfortunately I need to run OSX to do iPhone dev stuff, so I bought an official OSX cd for $25 and chucked it on my PC which I spent $138 on making compatible... as opposed to the cheapest, shittiest machine you can buy from apple that runs OSX which costs $800.

I've been running OSX 10.5.6 for a year or so now on my PC (boot between XP SP3/Win 7 64), fkn awesome. Did you have to use a BIOS emulator for snow leopard or did you just use OEM DVD?

I've got a gigabyte EP45-UD3L, with OS 10.6 you can use a DSDT as part of your bootloader so you don't have to hack your BIOS. OEM DVD requires a USB stick or kakewalk CD to load up, but after that as long as you've got an nVidia video card its quite straightforward... just download the relevant kexts.

You can use an ATI card, but not all are supported. Also if your card's not supported you can still run in VESA mode, but then you won't have hardware acceleration or OpenGL.

  • 1 month later...

I got some 800mhz RAM and an E8400 lolz, next year when I get put on permanent (I hope) the boss will buy me a new leet gaming rig so therefore I'd be rather foolish to buy a new computer right now.

I only have a 22" monitor so there's nothing really that cripples it apart from running Supreme Commander 2 maxed out with 5 other people online

  • 2 months later...

Picked up my ASUS TOP 5850 the other day.

already overclocked to 825mhz but from all the reviews ive been reading - bit of voltage and they will see over 950mhz without fail.

Cheery picked by ASUS FTW! Was certainly worth the extra $30 as this card hopefully will gimme the same/better performance than a 5870 for $120 less hohoho

Then just buy another in 12 months time for $200 and have a ripping crossfire setup for $500 :blink:

Physx - atm = joke. Hardly any games using it even 12 months later.

The 5850 is better performing than a 460 anyway stock for stock by around 15% - and the ati o/c's better by all reports (most reviews show at least 6FPS increase which is huge, most usually are 4FPS at best) so its a no brainer for me.

I just CBF'd waiting for the price drop :laugh:

Whilst that is true it is a nice feature to have anyway.

GTX 460's have a shitload of potential, for example, my Gigabyte one sits on a core clock speed of 845 mhz and the ram at 2200mhz! I haven't been able to make the temps get above 63 degrees at these speeds! The only thing really holding me back is the fact that I can't adjust voltage on this card. For ~$250-280 each, you're mad to go for a 5850!

You also get drivers that work perfectly out of the box, and no funny artifacing in games like the Catalyst drivers tend to do. I don't think I'll be going back to ATI until they can get some decent drivers.

I've very rarely had issues with ATi drivers. Once every 12 months.

That said i never update when a new driver set comes out. I always update one behind.

Might not get me the best 10th of performance, but never have a problem otherwise :laugh:

neither did I apart from some games having graphical glitches, until 10.7 completely trashed the gfx drivers in Windows and I had to manually remove them all from the System32 folder.

Just sayin though, why get a 5850 when there's a better option out for less cash :laugh:

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