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Snow Leopard and...

I'm just wondering if my hardware would work on snow leopard. Intel Core i7 980x Asus P6x58D-E Ethernet onboard = Marvell 88E8056 Intergrated Audio = Realtek ALC889 Sata 2 controller = Intel ICH10R controller Sata 3 controller = Marvell…

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@mufffins Published 2010-07-31
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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3,395 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2010-07-31 – 2010-09-20
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@mufffins@TyroSe7en

I'm just wondering if my hardware would work on snow leopard.

Intel Core i7 980x
Asus P6x58D-E
Ethernet onboard = Marvell 88E8056
Intergrated Audio = Realtek ALC889
Sata 2 controller = Intel ICH10R controller
Sata 3 controller = Marvell 9128 (I don't have any Sata 6 devices so thats not a problem)
USB 3 = NEC USB 3.0 controller (no USB 3 devices yet either so no problem)
Chipset = Intel X58 - ICH10R
6gb Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600
Nvidia 470
Asus Xonar DX sound card

Also, would Leopard work? I was thinking of trying to install 10.5 since I have it but I haven't seen any new development of 10.5 since snow leopards release…

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Field Note #1 @TyroSe7en 2010-09-20

I have a similar setup and can't seem to get to the install screen even without my computer crashing, same motherboard, different i7, lol same ram too. Know anyone that could help? I'm way over my head here

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