Building my first mac

[Innxis]

Hello InfiniteMac community and thanks for coming in.

My computer just broke a few days ago and I really need to get another one. I planed long time ago to buy me a mac, just for the speed and stability of the Mac OS X OS, and, since I really need a "monster" to get my job done (web designing) and I don't really have about 2.500$ for a Mac Pro or 1.200$ for a iMac, I decided to build myself a great Hackintosh machine for about 700$ (or 500 Euros).

So, I will focus only on the main hardware in this acquisition (motherboard, cpu, ram and video card).

I already made a configuration, but I still have no idea what or which motherboard is best for this configuration:

CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E7500 (3M Cache, 2.93 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB)
RAM: Kingmax FLGE8-DDR3-2G1600 or Kingston KVR1066D3N7K2/2G
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870 - can be found on Mac Pro's machines

I would like a great motherboard with the option to upgrade various components (like the cpu, from core 2 duo to a core 2 quad, to add additional ram, to add a second video card, to support DDR3 and to have two PCI-express video slots, 5.1 or better audio sistem, etc.)

I also searched on internet for compatible hardware components and I found this list: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.7

I'm not a hackintosh pro, so I would like to learn more about how to make my configuration run native. If this helps, I used to make Mac OS X run once on my PC, but due to the AGP compatibility problem, I had to switch back to linux because I had to work.

All your opinions, ideas or posts are highly appreciated.

Thank you very much for reading .

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I've found this motherboard from gigabyte that might actually work pretty well:

GA-X48T-DQ6 - http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2765

Check it out and tell me what you think .