McFrankenstein - Mac Pro - iMac - Macbook/Pro CLEAN INSTALL

[LOLmoe]

Here's my iMac + Mac Pro Frankenstein!!

Kinda cool story behind this. I had a Phenom II X6 1055T + Radeon 4890. Raised my room temperatures to uncomfortable levels. So I sold it , and was on a quest to get a new PC.
My first CPU of choice was Intel i3 or i5. I went with i3 540 because I didn't notice the difference between the i3 and i5 Clarkdales. Then I thought, hey I can run Mac OS X with this! So this is what became of my franken.

Gigabyte P55-UD6 with F10 BIOS
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XDQC3G?ie=UTF8

Intel i3 540 CPU
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0031M9QZ4?ie=UTF8

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SP113K?ie=UTF8

Seagate Barracuda 1TB 32MB Cache Drive
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00272NHOK?ie=UTF8

Pioneer DVR-218L
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002GQ1NPW?ie=UTF8

Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014BOQ54?ie=UTF8

OCZ ModXStreme 500 Watt Power Supply
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EZMEZO?ie=UTF8

Antec 300 Case
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GQMHBI?ie=UTF8

Targus ACB10US Bluetooth Adapter *You need the 1st version, which is a large silver USB flashdrive style looking device. Not the little nub one.

Mini-PCIe to PCIe 1x Adapter

Broadcom Based Airport Extreme Adapter

Comments:
I call it franken because of it's iMac Specs + Mac Pro Specs; iMac being the P55 Chipset, i3 CPU. Mac Pro being no monitor, HD 5770 GFX Card, Pioneer DVR-218L. Macbook/Pro would be the Airport Adapter.

The ACB10US Bluetooth adapter is fully supported by Apple, meaning wake by bluetooth keyboard + mouse.

Combination of displays I have tried on the ATI Card:
Tested ports:
HDMI Alone
HDMI Alone using HDMI -> DVI Cable
DVI Alone (both ports)
DVI Alone using DVI -> HDMI Cable (Same cable used above)
HDMI + DVI (both ports)
HDMI (DVI Cable) + DVI (both ports)
DVI + DVI

All working! With proper recongnition shown in the hardware profile page.

I have not and probably won't ever try the Display Ports because I do not have a monitor that supports this port.

I have not tested these (but will get to it):
1. Auto-Sleep (Because my drive isn't here yet)
2. SpeedStep

I have only 4 problems with this: (they are all minor aesthetics, except speedstep)
1. I have 6 DIMM Slots, OS reports only 4 not 6.
2. CPU isn't recognized (But will be fixed by 10.6.5! + Chameleon RC5!)
3. I can't seem to load different Kexts for my SATA chipsets. (I have 2x Jmicron 362, and 1x 363, and the Intel. I need to make 2x Jmicron 362 eSATA, 1x Jmicron 363 internal sata, but everything comes up as Jmicron 363 SATA) but no problems!
4. I don't know if speedstep is working

So I am running with these on:
Mac OS X 10.6.4 + Graphics Update 1.0
Modified Chameleon by Trauma! From InsanelyMac for my GFX Card - Boot7 or Boot9 works.
XFX 5770 ROM file to be loaded by Chameleon
LegacyHDA 889a Audio Kext
JMicronATA Kext
JMicronSATA Kext
FakeSMC Kext
DSDT (Right from the DSDT Database, no changes)
RealtekR1000SL Kext

SMBIOS is set to iMac11,1

That's it. Everything is running fine! Everything is also recognized correctly.
One future concern is the compatibility with my graphics card.

Tested:
OS itself
StarCraft 2 - Runs Ultra settings in 1920x1080 very smoothly.
All kinds of different apps.

Partitions:
System Reserved (Has Chameleon, 4 of the kexts, modified boot file, DSDT)
Macintosh HD (Just the OS installation, and the Realtek official driver in S/L/E)

extremely clean!

 

[Vendetta]

Sounds great! But, where are the pics?

I'm jealous of your SC2 performance.

 

[LOLmoe]

Pics?! you haven't seen a Antec 300 case before?! XD

I'll get pics of internals, and maybe a video on SC2.
Do you know a particular program that counts FPS on the mac?

 

[Vendetta]

Pics?! you haven't seen a Antec 300 case before?! XD

I'll get pics of internals, and maybe a video on SC2.
Do you know a particular program that counts FPS on the mac?

Just kidding about the pics.

To see your FPS in SC2, press cmd+option+f. That's assuming you've switched the control key to command in gameplay settings. Otherwise, it would be ctrl+option+f.

I just played the AI, and my computer gets sad if I try to change the settings from medium to high. I play SC2 on my mac mini and my macbook, so even medium looks pretty good to me. Ultra must be nuts.

 

[Lnx2Mac]

Do you know a particular program that counts FPS on the mac?

You can use Cinebench, or simpler... glxgears from a terminal.

 

[LOLmoe]

I can measure the FPS in starcraft 2 like fraps with cinebench or glxgears?

 

[Lnx2Mac]

I can measure the FPS in starcraft 2 like fraps with cinebench or glxgears?

Not in SC2... You asked for a program to measure on the Mac...