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Old 09-12-2009, 01:17 AM
Dwiman89 Dwiman89 is offline
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this is what I got, what Version of 0sx86 will work best?

Hi, im using Linux on one of my boxes and would like to try osx86 on it. im not sure what is most compatable because im new to osx86. Its a Home built computer. These are the hardware specs that I know of.

Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Memory: 512MB DDR
HDD: 18.4GB IDE
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 256MB, AGP 8X
Displays: (Dual) samsung syncMaster, Dell E156FP

Let me know what would work best. I know the coputer is a little outdated... let me know any other information you might need.

Also, is it possible to kind of build your own osx86 to tailor your computer?

Thank you!
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Old 09-12-2009, 03:26 AM
tham50 tham50 is offline
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it won't work.
your cpu is not supported.
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Old 09-12-2009, 09:06 AM
Imkantus Imkantus is offline
 
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tham50 is right - you will need at the minimum a CPU that supports SSE2 instruction set to run Leopard - yours doesn't.

The only way to run OS X on such obsolete machines is with using 10.4 Tiger on qemu via a little prepared Linux System that's beeing loaded to RAM, but to be using that you should have at least 1GB of memory....

You can get some Mini-ITX board with Atom 330 CPU for about less then 100€, which would be the way to a cheap but still very compatible Hackint0sh system, I guess...

AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
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AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD

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Old 09-12-2009, 07:22 PM
tham50 tham50 is offline
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for my gigabyte mobo and the c2d i'm running i just paid 70 euro.



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