Adios ACER M5620
My ACER 5620 motherboard just died! Anyway this motherboard with proprietary locked bios wasn’t the best to use on Mac OS X, disabling me to run the Core2 Quad Q6600 as it’s full speed (full overclocked speed!), and could only receive one graphic card, there was just 300W power, the box had little room… Adios!
I bought an ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo (with 2 PCI-Express x16 graphic port), overclocking-oriented BIOS, an ASUS Radeon 4670 512MB (for OpenCL Benchs, with my GeForce 8800 GTS), Fatal1ty 550W modular power, and a big tower with 3.5″ SATA hard-drive bay (to be able to swap boot hard-drive on a snap).
I just installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64bits, because I need Windows for my Polar Cardio (guys this suck), Fritz, ChessBase, AnyDVD HD and BR-Rebuilder. Windows 7 is far behind Leopard in term of overall ergonomy and user-experience, but you have to use Mac OS X to understand!
So my actual configuration is:
- Motherboard ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo
- Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 4×3.2Ghz
- 4×2GB DDR2-800
- 1TB 7200 rpm boot drive (one for Windows7, one for OS X)
- 2TB 7200 rpm Video drive
- ATI Radeon 4670 512MB
- nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
- DVD reader-writer
- Blu-Ray Reader (and DVD reader-writer)
- 24″ 1920×1200 ACER display
- Apple keyboard
- Logitech Mouse
So it’s a pretty good configuration, that may be compared to a Core i5 iMac, for a fraction of it’s price. I am trying to install iAtkos v7i (a 10.5.7 distro).
