well it's almost do or die time

[jondoe696911]

i've been doing alot of reading... forum surfing, and wiki browsing through various sites here lately, and have decided it as time to go "balls deep" in the osx86 world...

don't know how tough it will be, still a little sketchy on the installs i have tried, but here's what i got

amd athlon 64 3800+ 2.4ghz Orleans core
e-machine d5239
mobo: mcp61 sm2ma
video: Nvidia 9500gt 1gb ddr2
ram:1.5gb ddr2 5300 single channel
HDD:
-toshiba 111gb sata drive (re-purposed 360 hd)
-maxtor 30gb ata drive (win7)
-wd 250gb sata drive ( downloads and such)
mouse: wacom bamboo fun tablet
keyboard: oem hp media keyboard
wireless belkin usb stick f5d7050 - v4
audio realtec hd audio ( gives me trouble with a windows install so i'm preparing for the worst on it)

still haven't decided on leo or snow leo, or which route, got to the disk utilities portion on the kalway leo, but think i had a faulty disk, ipc gives the root device error. think i'm gonna hold off til Thursday and shell out a little for both a pci sata card and another ata hd just in case.


what are your thoughts? suggestions? advice?