Building a PC for SL
I have a PC from 2004 that isn't really that great with OSX, so I'm thinking about building a really, REALLY cheap system (about $200) and I'm asking if anybody has any recommendations about motherboard and cpu bundles. I'm probably going…
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- @amantonas Published 2009-09-20
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I have a PC from 2004 that isn't really that great with OSX, so I'm thinking about building a really, REALLY cheap system (about $200) and I'm asking if anybody has any recommendations about motherboard and cpu bundles. I'm probably going to buy a motherboard with an intel pentium dual core, so do you guys know if that supports the vanilla kernel?
If it does, I'll buy this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/ite… ↗ and all the other stuff I need. If not, I guess I'll have to up my price range :|
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I recently started a compareable topic myself - you might like to check it out:
Max. compatible and >cheap< Hardware →
And yes - the Pentium Dual-Core supports using Vanilla Kernel - the main difference to the Core 2 Duo is that it has much less L2-Chache
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| @amantonas | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-09-20 → 2009-09-22 |
| @Imkantus | Contributor | 1 | 2009-09-22 |