Do 1x8GB DDR3 PC-10700 (1333), 500W and any brand name DVD burner work?

I have looked up the Custom Budget this month for my very first build which has:

1. An ATX Mid Tower case
2. 500W PSU
3. Rosewill N900PCE Dualband Wireless
4. GA-H87-D3H (LGA1150)
5. Core i3-4330 Haswell
6. 256GB Sata III - Transcend SSD340
7. 1TB 5400 RPM WD Blue (optional)
8. 1x8GB sticks Patriot DDR3-1333
9. A random (any brand name of) DVD burner
10. VGA card will be upgraded later...

Is it ready to go for OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)?

You can use one 8GB Dimm of Ram. For a DVD burner certain models/brands like ASUS should
be avoided as they interfere with sleep. Do some research on which work the best. If you want
Mt. Lion you must be running 10.8.5 with that hardware. Good luck on your build.

trs96 said:

You can use one 8GB Dimm of Ram. If you want
Mt. Lion you must be running 10.8.5 with that hardware. Good luck on your build.

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Thank you for your support!

I always think a custom Mac will run on any version of OSX.
Is that true that I just can run only certain version of Mac OSX (any kind from Leopard to Mavericks) with that build? Then should I start from which version to get the latest version?

lilcarp87 said:

Thank you for your support!

I always think a custom Mac will run on any version of OSX.
Is that true that I just can run only certain version of Mac OSX (any kind from Leopard to Mavericks) with that build? Then should I start from which version to get the latest version?

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If you've got Haswell hardware no Leopard, no Snow Leopard, Lion might work but not very well
as there is no support for Haswell CPUs. If you want to run Snow leopard or Lion I would build
a Sandy Bridge system for the best compatibility.

If you're asking about a temporary install of Snow Leopard on Haswell hardware, then you use iBoot Haswell to just get to 10.6.8 and then download Mavericks from the App store to make a Unibeast drive.

trs96 said:

there is no support for Haswell CPUs.

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I never know that Buyer's Guide page which posts many Haswell CPUs are not supported for a Custom Mac and TonyMac never mentions on the page until I become a member this forum.

The Buyer's Guide is so weird and ridiculous.

lilcarp87 said:

I never know that Buyer's Guide page which posts many Haswell CPUs are not supported for a Custom Mac and TonyMac never mentions on the page until I become a member this forum.

The Buyer's Guide is so weird and ridiculous.

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It's not weird or ridiculous. You do know that if you walked in to a Apple store and bought a brand new iMac or Mac Pro that it wouldn't run any of the Apple operating systems prior to Mountain Lion? This is because those operating systems lack the drivers for the older hardware, Apple doesn't go backward like the PC world does. The core issue is that Apple stopped selling copies of their operation system on physical media, you can only download it. It's not too bad for a real Apple computer because the newer ones are capable of doing an install from Apple using feature in the motherboard firmware. Now that's a trick we won't see in the pc world for a long time, if ever.

Many of the people, dare I even say most here, have a real Apple computer in the house. This does indeed make it much easier. If you check around and find someone willing to loan you a couple of hours on their mac, you can make an account on the Apple app store and 'buy', it is free right now, a legitimate copy to make a usb stick with. Otherwise the other legal possibility is to buy the most recent DVD of OSX, and use that, which is Snow Leopard.

There is nothing wrong with the guide, I have had great success with those parts.

thank you!