kenji
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Post by kenji on Jan 6, 2007 6:48:46 GMT
Hi aquamac,
Is it possible to run OS X on a Pentium 4 processor (3 GHz, FSB 800)? Can you tell me a compatible motherboard please? Thank you.
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Post by aquamac on Jan 6, 2007 7:35:25 GMT
Hi Kenji, There is a invaluable resource here that gives much information about compatible hardware: wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.8Many people have used the P4 in Hackintoshes. It is probably one of the most common processors used. Check to see if your motherboard is listed, if it is then you can find more info, if it is not, well it just means that no one has written in with info. It may also have been listed under 10.4.7 or 10.4.6. Have a good look through the site, it is very usefull. Good luck. PS What motherboard are you thinking about using? |
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Post by reddrag0n on Jan 6, 2007 17:11:56 GMT
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Post by aquamac on Jan 6, 2007 21:18:32 GMT
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Post by reddrag0n on Jan 6, 2007 21:29:17 GMT
Oooooohhhh pretty!!
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Post by ritalin on Jan 7, 2007 10:43:23 GMT
Excellent work! 28 deg is PD cool. My E6300 idles near 50 deg with the zalman turned right down. At full speed temp drops to the low 30s, but its real noisy. I'm thinking you must have a lot of potently for overclocking the CPU with such effective cooling!
If it was mine, given time i would probably pimp the PSU. Maybe a silver paint job, or a cowl with Intel logo. You know, reminiscent of the CPU heat-sinks in the G5 PowerMac.
Congrats on an beautifully peace of engineering.
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Post by aquamac on Jan 7, 2007 14:26:09 GMT
Hi Ritalin, Yeah the PSU does look a bit grotty, however I am thinking about zoning the lower case into 2 halves, just on top of the PSU which very convenietly is level at the top with the aquagate and the rear fan. Splitting at this level would be ideal and give the graphics card it's own compartment just like a real G5. This would come down and cover the front of the PSU, might be nice if it was engraved with Intel or Core Duo! Gotoh came up with a nice little hack, this can be achieved if your mainboard bios supports custom logo's:  This must be hacked onto the bios but gives your Hackintosh a more genuine feel at startup & gets rid of all the reels of dos at startup. Click Here |
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Post by B B on Jan 8, 2007 10:26:13 GMT
Hello Aqua-mac,
Happy New Year.
I am have been following this mod from the beginning. Nothing to say, except :
PERFECT !!!
I have looked for a while for a G5 case and I get lucky finally. For 169$ (plus shipping costs and Customs fees) I got one with all the internal parts included. I will move my Mirror inside. Your mod for the back panel will help me to made mine. And the links to the PC mod with the G5 case will help a lot also. Thanks a lot.
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Post by aquamac on Jan 8, 2007 19:03:00 GMT
Hey bb,
If you take the whole case apart I think you can actually swap around the opening door side which will be the thing to do if you are using a MDD logicboard. Your case will then allow you to use the MDD swing door which could be mounted with the PCI slots at the top as they are as std, or you could leave it as it is and have a kind of reversed out PC configuration. Either way, you will end up having a cooler running MDD.
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Post by ritalin on Jan 8, 2007 20:19:00 GMT
A MDD logic-board inside a G5 case  Now thats what I call thinking different. Has this ever been tried before. |
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Post by aquamac on Jan 8, 2007 20:37:17 GMT
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Post by ritalin on Jan 8, 2007 20:40:12 GMT
Gotoh came up with a nice little hack, this can be achieved if your mainboard bios supports custom logo's: This must be hacked onto the bios but gives your Hackintosh a more genuine feel at startup & gets rid of all the reels of dos at startup. Click HereWell my AMIBIOS does support custom logo's, but it wouldn't be easy to implement. The AMIBIOS is modular and unfortunately my ASrock AMIBIOS lacks the OEMLOGO module. All is not lost though as AMI obviously produce tool set which allow manufacturers to modify and customize the BIOS. To add the OEMLOGO module to my BIOS I need a tool called MMTOOL version 3 or higher. However there needs to be enough free space in the ROM for the module. Once the module is added another tool imaginatively called OEMLOGO can be used to change the image used for the logo. The hole process look very risky  Before I attempt anything I would like to have a backup BIOS chip. |
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Post by B B on Jan 8, 2007 21:47:46 GMT
Hey bb, If you take the whole case apart I think you can actually swap around the opening door side which will be the thing to do if you are using a MDD logicboard. Your case will then allow you to use the MDD swing door which could be mounted with the PCI slots at the top as they are as std, or you could leave it as it is and have a kind of reversed out PC configuration. Either way, you will end up having a cooler running MDD. Thanks for the link in the following message. Interesting, but mine in the MDD case is cooler because I used 6 suppl. fans the temp is around 40° now. And indeed I was considering the two options, have already a lot of draws to figure out how to remove the rivets from the MDD case and attach the swing door inside the G5 case or completely inside included with the MDD closing system or attached to the G5 door case and making it swinging also and using the G5 closing system. |
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Post by aquamac on Jan 17, 2007 18:17:03 GMT
WooHoo, I did a deal with my local computer shop and they took my 533 ram back (only a few weeks old at the price I bought it for) and I upgraded to DDR 2 800. This allows me to overclock the FSB of the Core Duo 2.13 GHz to 3GHz clocking the memory multiplier back to 800 at the same time! I'm sure it would go even higher but 3 Gigs will do very nicely thanks very much. With the watercooling, it still only reaches 32 degrees at full tilt. Note the bus speed at 1.5 Gigs. Now if only I wasn't skint and could afford a Quad core, I might be able to give that o'l 3 gig Mac Pro a proper pasting! Based on these results, I recon the Quad core would go to about 3.2 - 3.4Gigs. : ;D    |
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Post by ritalin on Jan 18, 2007 7:01:28 GMT
Nice work :-)
How did you get System Profiler reporting the speeds correctly?
The memory shows up as "SDRAM speed unknown" on my machine.
I have GeekBenched my 1.87 GHz iHack, I get:
195.4 in 64bit
182.4 in 32bit
131.4 in Rosetta
For comparison my Dual 2.3GHz PowerMac gives 149.1 in 64 bit.
I also ran Xbench, I didn't write the score down but it was in the low 70s I think. It would probably do much better with a faster graphic card and faster HD. I don't really care about the scores though, the machine feels fast enough to me.
Have you done any benchmarking to measure the effect of over clocking? I read somewhere that there is a sweat spot for memory speed . Increasing the memory / bus speed ratio can actually reduce performance (or something along that line, I don't remember all the detail).
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