Pentium III Coppermine Hackintosh?
J Bickhard
I have a 600MHz (overclocked to 800) Coppermine Intel Pentium III on
an Asus P3B-F motherboard with Soundblaster (something), and GeForce
128MB graphics card. Also have 728MB of PC133 RAM. Would it be
possible to make this into a hackintosh, and if so, what would be the
easiest way to go about it?
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Kris Tilford
> I have a 600MHz (overclocked to 800) Coppermine Intel Pentium III on
> an Asus P3B-F motherboard with Soundblaster (something), and GeForce
> 128MB graphics card. Also have 728MB of PC133 RAM. Would it be
> possible to make this into a hackintosh, and if so, what would be the
> easiest way to go about it?
No, this CPU can't function as a hackintosh. The minimum CPU requires
SSE2, which is either a P4 or a Celeron D.
Kris Tilford
> No, this CPU can't function as a hackintosh. The minimum CPU
> requires SSE2, which is either a P4 or a Celeron D.
Opps, there are actually a few regular Celeron's that have SSE2. The
Celeron D is even better, it has SSE3 which means no SSE3 emulation as
is required on all the SSE2 hacks. Again, the MINIMUM CPU MUST HAVE
SSE2.
J Bickhard
Hackintosh with Tiger on Youtube. Does this mean it's fake?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSJ3utnsbqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DghtocmnEPI
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Kris Tilford
> Okay, but this brings up another question: I saw a Pentium III laptop
> Hackintosh with Tiger on Youtube. Does this mean it's fake?
No, it means that the Acer Aspire 1200 came with a Celeron CPU and the
guy who posted this mistakenly thinks it's a P3. OS X will not run on
any P3. Perhaps you can upgrade your CPU?
J Bickhard
another $100, so it's almost immenent :D
I could probably find a slotket somewhere and slap in my 800MHz
Celeron that I have.
Kris Tilford
> I could probably find a slotket somewhere and slap in my 800MHz
> Celeron that I have.
I don't think it will work. It appears the slowest Celeron with SSE2
is 1.7 GHz.
Look here to see if it supports "SSE2":
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors>
J Bickhard
stuff (The aforementioned PIII is my main system). I was just looking
for something to do that would make me the envy of my friends, but I'm
hooked now, and I'm definitely going to put OSX on my 40GB hard drive
when I get the dual-core. It's hard bein 14 :P
iJohn
> Okay, but this brings up another question: I saw a Pentium III laptop
> Hackintosh with Tiger on Youtube. Does this mean it's fake?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSJ3utnsbqw
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DghtocmnEPI
>
IIRC according to the video timing it took 6 minutes just to boot
whatever hacked up version of OS X he somehow managed to install on
that puppy. And &deity. only knows how much time was spent hacking and
installing just to finally get something that is IMO unusable even if
it technically appears to work.
The second youtube link above appears to be to a P4 system so I'm not
sure why it was included.
If I wanted to put a more "modern" OS on really old PC hardware I'd
probably try Windows 7 ... if it weren't so frickin' expensive.
-irrational john
iJohn
> I don't think it will work. It appears the slowest Celeron with SSE2 is 1.7
> GHz.
And even if it did work, it would still be an 800 MHz Celeron.
For pities sake you can probably get a faster true PIII on ebay for
mostly the cost of shipping. (I should probably look into selling my
old 800 MHz PIIIs. Maybe someone would still find them useful enough
to pay for the shipping).
-irrational john
iJohn
> I'm getting a Pentium Dual-Core internals as soon as I can raise
> another $100, so it's almost immenent :D
>
Could you provide a few more details? Are you actually talking about
swapping the internals of a laptop? Or is this just a new
motherboard/CPU/RAM for a desktop case?
-irrational john
Kris Tilford
> For pities sake you can probably get a faster true PIII on ebay for
> mostly the cost of shipping.
You need a P4 to run OS X. A faster true PIII won't help. He has a
PIII, and when I mentioned some Celeron's support SSE2 he mistakenly
thought his 800 MHz Celeron would work. OS X requires SSE2.
Christian Wacker
I'm trying to find a use for them... besides trunk ballast for my car...
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J Bickhard
dual-core CPU, Windows 7 and Mac OSX (I hope).
Kris Tilford
> Do the original P4 systems with RamBus support SSE2\3?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_4_microprocessors>
> I'm trying to find a use for them... besides trunk ballast for my
> car...
I've got an old Pentium desktop as ballast in my pickup now. It was a
garbage pick that I salvaged two 256 MB sticks of RAM from. Needless
to say, the remainder is toast, it had sat in the rain for days.
mosslack
http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a <+> Email home for the Hackintosh community
iJohn
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:52 PM, J Bickhard <jbic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm getting a Pentium Dual-Core internals as soon as I can raise
>>> another $100, so it's almost immenent :D
>
> dual-core CPU, Windows 7 and Mac OSX (I hope).
>
I think it's safe to predict that you'll notice a performance increase. ;-)
If you look around now and pick a motherboard and video card that has
a known relatively clear path to installing OS X, then you'll save
yourself that much more grief later. Don't just look to find it on
someone's "list". While that's a good place to start I'd suggest also
checking for actual "guides" and also for feedback from those who
claim to have used the guide.
FWIW,
-irrational john