On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:34 PM, PeterH wrote:
> > > On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: > >> Yes, please. > > General instructions: > > 1) Your choice of case and PSU (Antec 300 or better, with Antec 500 > "EarthWatts" or better PSU), > > 2) Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L or similar mobo, > > 3) your choice of nVidia video card (any of the 7000, 8000 and some > 9000 will do), > > 4) your choice of processor (Intel E8400 C2D is very good, an Intel > 9450 C2Q is better, although most work only needs a C2D), > > 5) Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 water cooling unit, > > 6) 2 GB to 8 GB of PC2-6400 RAM (any of the usual suspects will do, > even most generics), > > 7) any generic Firewire PCI card (VIA chip set works well), > > 8) any generic R8169 gigabit Ethernet card, > > 9) your choice of SATA optical drive (Lite-On 20X or Samsung 22X DVD > burner), and > > 10) your choice of SATA hard drive (Seagate 500, 750 or 1000 GB, plus > a second for backup). > > There, that should get you started. > > I built two, mostly from components I already had on-hand, including > some "organ donors" from my Psystar OpenComputer (nee' Open Mac). > > Overall cost is influenced by what you have available. > > I've build examples with E1200, E2200, E4400, E8400 and Q6600 > processors, and G31/ICH7 and P35/ICH9 motherboards. > > The smallest, and perhaps the least expensive, were Shuttle G31-based > examples, which utilized hand-me-down IDE hard and optical drives, > and entry-level Core 2 (but branded as Pentium) dual core processors. > The Shuttles themselves were obtained from Shuttle for $129 as > factory refurbished examples, but were actual brand-new in every > respect. > > I've built HackBooks using GMAX3100/ICH7 laptops, too. Just my $.02 to add, check out the InsanelyMac.com forum on building these systems. There is a wealth of info there: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=137 Just a message from Doug... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
