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I ended up buying a gigabyte model - the overclocked one. I just transplanted the 9800 into my wife's PC, now I can finally assemble the hackintosh. Will report back.

Well, as I said, I am doing animations - I'm not gaming AT ALL. But the animations I create sometimes go to 2048x768. My main software is Motion, VDMX and hopefully soon After Effects. Apart from rendering, live playback situations require playback of two or three videoclips at that resolution...

Thanks for your reply. As I said, I'm a vj and sometimes I do dual screen installations, that means some of my clips are 2048x768 or even bigger. I also have the 1 GB model, but still 20 sec. clips sometimes take hours to render... That's why I want to upgrade. Step one will now be to get this...

well thanks to Gigabyte and their 20% refund, I changed my plans. I have a Z77-DS3H motherboard and a core i5 already here and now I'm waiting for my crucuial m4 SSD which I have just ordered. I will upgrade the system with these and eventually replace the 9800 GT with a beefier card. The...

That's basically why I wanted to upgrade the system. New OS X. I think I'll try to put the core2quad in my wife's pc and later on the 9800 GT as well. It now is a pentium with an 8400. As soon as I have the money for new RAM, the old will also go into that pc. Thanks for your help so far...

just a side note: IF I upgrade the rest of the system first (there's a 20% discount on gigabyte z77 mobos at the moment) would it make sense to put the 9800 GT on the new mobo and replace it later?

It's actually been a while since I last tried. But as far as I remember it failed when trying to reboot. I never used anything but iBoot and Multibeast, so I didn't change any DSDTs. And no I did not try either single user nor safe mode (didn't know I had to) I tried 10.6.5, and because I had...

Sorry I have been a bit unclear - I tried using the combo updater. I have never used any extra kext files - all I did was use iboot and multibeast and for the 9800, I had to do a little trickery as described here...

I usually only need 2 monitors, but I need a faster card for rendering. But maybe more outputs could be useful. Can someone give me a hint why the update always fails?

Btw. I have tried several times updating to 10.6.5 or above, and it always got stuck. So IF I need to update to anything beyond that, I need to re-install completely new.

That was the plan. I don't have to stick to snow Leo though. What would you recommend?

Thank you very much for the explanation. I was aware of the fact that it's only a speed difference but couldn't tell whether that would make a difference in my case. So after what was said here I think I'm going for the 660, then later change the other components as well so I don't have to...

I'm not sure about the PSU. It's an Xilence Power with 550 WATTs.

Thanks for the advice. But what about the PCI express 2.0 vs. 3.0 problem? I had a look at the recommendations again and realized there is a 2.0 card with more power in the same price range: http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?adp=0&aid=60150&agid=1156&apop=0 Either...

Hello fellow hackintoshers. I have been running a hackintosh for about 2 1/2 years now. The only problem is that I can't seem to get this baby to update beyond 10.6.4, but that's ok. I do animation and vjing on the machine but lately especially rendering from apple's motion has been kind of...

Does nobody have any help? Or am I in the wrong sub-forum?

The title pretty much says it all - anything above will simply not work. But I want to unleash the Lion on the hacky. Can anyone help me out?

I did a search and couldn't find anything because I wrote windows and xp seperately - Oh well... So you're saying Win 7 would be a lot easier? I tried that but for some reason the DVD wouldn't load. Might have been faulty.

Good guess. I'll have a look on google and try again. But: It IS a SATA drive, not IDE. Will report back.

Hello folks, after making the hackintosh work entirely I wanted to add a Win XP system for some software that I have to use and that is windows-only. I partitioned a 2nd drive to 15 GB for windows and the rest for data. I then unplugged the OSX drive, installed Windows XP ( I had to set the...