Will this work?

[armadaskier4123]

Hi guys, I am thinking of building an older higher performance hackintosh for very cheap. Although, since these are older parts, I need to make sure they will work.

Motherboard: ASUS P5B SE LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX

CPU: INTEL CORE 2 EXTREME 6800 SL9S5 2.93GHZ/4M/1066/05B SOCKET 775 PROCESSOR

GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870x2

RAM: PQI 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 800 PC2-6400 Desktop Memory Performance PQI26400-4GDB

These are all of the parts that I found that are extremely cheap and can actually do a decent job performance wise. I don't want anyone to try and persuade me into buying new modern parts, because this is just an experiment I am trying. All I want to know is if these parts will be compatible with Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion. Any reply's would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot!
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[Mate94]

Your GPU is not supported.
My fault. It is. I mean with edits it should work but max. on Lion.

 

[armadaskier4123]

So this system will work then?

 

[Mate94]

Hard to say. It depends on how much time, will power and patience you have.

 

[armadaskier4123]

What about just a regular HD 4870? Will I be able to get mountain lion going on one of those? I could spend just as much money and get something like a HD 7770. I just don't know how well 7xxx series are supported. For a $150 price max, could you point me in the right direction of a decent GFX card?

 

[armadaskier4123]

Hard to say. It depends on how much time, will power and patience you have.

I do have all of that, that is for sure

 

[Mate94]

What about just a regular HD 4870? Will I be able to get mountain lion going on one of those? I could spend just as much money and get something like a HD 7770. I just don't know how well 7xxx series are supported. For a $150 price max, could you point me in the right direction of a decent GFX card?

I would try it with your existing card and just then buy a new card, if it's necessary.
The HD7xxx series are not supported.

 

[armadaskier4123]

I think I'll go for another 6870. There's no way i'm ripping apart my crossfire 6870 black editions in my main gaming rig

 

[armadaskier4123]

So put the video cards aside, is the CPU and Mobo supported?

 

[armadaskier4123]

So, I did some more searching, and came out with this.

GPU: GIGABYTE GV-R687OC-1GD Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express CrossFireX

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3L ATX Motherboard Intel P45 + ICH10 DDR2 PCI-E x16 USB 2.0



Seeing as the 6870 is nearly fully supported, and this is a gigabyte motherboard, I figured it will be just that more compatible. Any more ideas?

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