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Hi everybody. Can you suggest a setup for a decent rig for video editing /photoshop, I'm helping a friend build a system and keep it under $1000 if possible. He uses Adobe software, so whats a good bang for the buck vid card supported by the Mercury Engine / CUDA . THanks!

Which Mobo would you recommended as low cost and able to use hd3000 ? any size is ok. Thanks!

WOuld a core i5-2500T integrated graphics work on Lion ? It is only 45W TDP ?

Hello, thanks to everybody on this forum for all the help. I am planning to convert my existing snow leopard HTPC to a sandy bridge Lion server / htpc. I have a couple of questions regarding Mobo & cpu. The priority is Low Power as this will be on 24/7. For CPU i was thinking of core...

That socket 775 mobo is pretty old, I think i used a non vanilla distro but I'm going to use the tonymac /multibeast method this time.

Hello I'm going to upgrade my 3 year old ga-ep35-ds3l Socket 775 C2D Home Theater PC to Snow Leopard and need a new vid card as the current one is rattling like crazy (Fan). What would you suggest for something quiet, very cost effective and able to handle 1080p video output . No gaming...

Hello everyone Just wanted to say thanks to Vendetta for his DSDT.aml for the F11 P55M-UD2 it fixed all the sleep issues with the 10.6.5 update and now i'm up to 10.6.6 flawlessly. In face, maybe it can be added to the DSDT wiki (page) officially for that combination of mobo and bios.

Hi Your CPU choice looks good. Mobo: Do you want a microATx or mini thats a big difference between the two H55N-USB3: mini, USB 3, H55M-UD2H: micro , Firewire, more RAM slots (if need more than 8GB) Personally, id go for the UD2H more space to work with esp if want good video card(s)...

I have been pondering the same question, and from the looks of it , I would suggest going with the ATI Radeon 5770 or 5870 if its in your budget. Easy to setup with Mulitbeast now.

Hello everyone, can you help suggest a graphics card. Check my sig for my rig info currently using a 9400gt and cinebench scores poor and 3D seems choppy. I wanted to upgrade to something with a little more kick, what would suggest for maximum plug&play, no kexts, as vanilla as possible. I...

Update to my sleep problem. Inconsistent sleep, sometimes sleeps sometimes doesn't, Wakes up ok. But sometimes on initial sleep it goes into weird unresponsive state: Now it repeatedly keeps turning itself on and off every 10 seconds endlessly, i have to power off hard. After rebooting, the...

I forgot to mention, i typically put the computer to sleep by pressing alt-cmd-eject (shortcut), not pressing the power button on the computer.

Hi everyone, I updated my rig to 10.6.5 and obviously the audio wasn't working but fixed that with multibeast. However theres a weird sleep problem. When I try to put it to sleep sometimes nothing happens. Sometimes after two or three attempt it will finally sleep. However sometimes it'll go...

Re: Jorpes Hacky McHackintosh Seriously, I drove from the North Bay to Santa Clara to pick up my i7-860, also got the video card for almost half of what newegg had it for. Saved at least $100.

That video card is used by many people on this forum and they just use GraphicsENabler=Yes to get it to work, maybe try that instead of using the NVenabler kext.

I think if you can afford it, get a 60-80gb SSD for your boot drive / applications. Just make sure it's a Sandforce 1200 based chipset, which does low level garbage collection independent of the OS to maximize longevity. I like the OCZ Vertex 2 & Corsair Force series. I will be adding one of...

While SSDs will make you system run a bit faster, they can also have a few issues. Most notably, OSX does not have native "garbage collectio" support for SSDs, which means you'll have to run some periodic maintainance, or risk a severe risk of life span for your SSD. Actually using a SSD is...

Your build looks great, should work well. For RAM i would suggest the low profile G.Skill ECO Ram, see my sig for details, it works great and is easy to add beefier CPU cooler if you want to.

Well if you read the forums regulary you will see that ATI support is increasing and probably will have native support for all the 4 / 5 series cards when SL 10.6.5 is released I don't think you need a fancy card for what you were wanting to do but Nvidia still seems more compatible for now.

I would go with the P55M-UD2 thats what I'm using and it works great only kext for audio which is easy w multibeast. It has esata & firewire which is great for Mac video editing applications. I'm using FCP 7.0 for HD editing and works great. I would also DEFINITELY recommend getting a better...