Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #2,171 · 2008-06-02 → 2009-09-19
#1,657 by Dispatches #2,038 by Author Reads #860 by Thread Reach Member #2,171 ATI Radeon Retail DVD / USB AMD OSx86

@Andrew

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (4,890 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 674,788 historical readers.

Dispatches 4 Ranked #1,657 of 6,691
Author Reads 4,890 Ranked #2,038 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 674,788 Ranked #860 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 2,445 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #2,171 Joined 2008-06-01
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-06-02 → 2009-09-19
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz · GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L · OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) · XFX HD-487A-ZHFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB · Xigmatek MIDGARD-W Black · Thermaltake TR2 430W · LG DVD Burner Black · Arctic Silver 5 · Firewire PCI Express Card
Archive Standing
#1,657 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #2,038 of 3,454 by Author Readership (4,890 reads across 2 dossiers) · #860 by Thread Reach (674,788 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,171 · Joined 2008-06-01
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ATI Radeon (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · AMD OSx86 (2) · AHCI / SATA (2) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
2 (50%)
Leopard 10.5
2 (50%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Andrew (2)

4,890 cumulative reads on threads started by @Andrew

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Is this a good build
So after checking eBay / CL + others for a week or so looking for a more powerful computer than my 1.66CD Mac Mini that has been acting as a Leopard server for the last few months I have decided to go ahead and piece together a Hackintosh…
10.X Core2,558 reads
2009-09-04 · 1 notes
Dual Opteron Tyan K8SR work or not
I have a 1U server with the follow specs that I'd like to install OSX on: 2x AMD OPTERON 265 DC 1.8GHZ Processors 4GB DDR2 ECC 1x FAST IDE 7200RPM 80GB Hard Disk Drive 2x Broadcom NeXtreme 100/1000 Gigabit Adapters OnBoard nForce Nvidia…
Leopard 10.52,332 reads
2008-06-02 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (2)

Direct links into threads where @Andrew contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“I've got the system working great with this tutorial, but my only problem is that I'll convert high definition video, and such and also it serves as a VPN server / iTunes / AppleTV server, etc etc. and if I try to do like converting a video…”
10.X Core2009-09-19
669,898 dossier reads
Dual Opteron Tyan K8SR work or not
“[cite] naquaada:The easiest way to find out is to DL an install image, I would recommend Leo4all V3. But if you can't connect a PCI-E gfx card you'll have no fun with that board. By the way, please expain better for what you want to use it.…”
Leopard 10.52008-06-02
2,332 dossier reads