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naquaada · 05-06-2009, 04:59 PM

Important for an OSx86 installation are cpu, gfx card and motherboard. One the motherboard you have to know the chipset, the audio chip and the network interface.

Your mainboard is: ECS MCP61PM-HM
Chipset: nForce 430
Audio: ALC888
Ethernet: Realtek RTL8201N

Luckily I can say you that every onboard component is supported

Your chipset is supported by AppleNForceATA.kext, ALC888 Audio are some variations available I think. The RTL8201 chip series was often problematic for some users. I have in my microATX-board (Fujitsu-Simens OEM board, see Black µMac in my signature) has an RTL8201CL chip. It was working fine for internet, but when there were long file transfers in the network the computer could crash. But now there's a new driver, nForceLAN, and this works perfect with my chip, I could even transfer a 7 GB image.

I don't know about the onboard gfx, but the nvidia 6xxx series isn't very well supported and normally onboard gfx isn't very nice. I had to exchange all gfx cards of my systems <sigh> because the were too slow for Quicktime 7.6 and I compared a lot of gfx cards before buying a new one. I found at least the ATI Radeon HD2600XT. This thing isn't the newest and maybe not the most powerful thing, but it only consumes 50W power, a Radeon HD4870 can use up to 285W, it's crazy! Faster nVidia gfx cards aren't better. Very good is also that there are various heatpipe versions out there, the one from Gigabyte is only one slot wide. Perfect for microATX-boards like yours, you don't waste a slot. The costs on ebay are about 20-50 Euro. This HD2600XT is perfectly supported, Dual-Monitor up to 2048x1536 and TV-Out are working great.

With the images, hm. I can give you a mediafire link for the XxX 10.5.6 Final 2 image. This thing continues all files you need. On the other hand, I noticed that all 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 images I tested were slower than a Leo4All 10.5.3 to 10.5.6 update. I won't install a 10.5.6 system anymore, I'll install a 10.5.2 system and then update directly to 10.5.7 when the update is out. I'll write about my experiences then. But this doesn't mean you should try an installation yet. It is always good to experiment and make own experiences.