Glougloumouth Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Hi, First I want to thank this community for all the excellent work provided. I have a D620 (Core Duo with Intel GMA 950 and - unfortunately - Intel 3945 wifi) and I was up and running with 10.6.6 in less than 2 days (from knowing nothing about Hackintosh to everything works but Wifi - my Broadcom card is on its way). Whoa, really a big thank you to all of you guys !!! Now I have a question about hardware. I want to replace my aging D620 with either a D630 or D830 that appear both to be well supported in OS X and, well, not too expensive on eBay. My question is around the graphic adaptor. Should I go with the X3100 or the nVidia 135M? On one hand I have seen a lot of disgruntled users of the nVidia, as it looks like there were some faulty video chips produced and installed in those machines. As I know support forums are only full of people with problems, well if you want to share you experience with this video card, I would welcome it. On the other hand I want 64-bits kernel driver support, and my understanding is that 10.7 Lion will just push further toward a full native x64 system, and there appear to be no X3100 64-bit drivers so far. Is the nVidia 135M supported with a 64-bit kernel? What is the best option, from an OS X support point of view? Performance is not really an issue, I do not play and the current GMA950 on my D620 fits my need. Thank you, Gl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted March 19, 2011 Administrators Share Posted March 19, 2011 go with the x3100.. the nvidia's have a nasty tendency of overheating and frys the graphic chip.. besides, the x3100 is quite good for osx edit: Yes, there is x3100 x64 drivers, but not gma950 (yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 19, 2011 Administrators Share Posted March 19, 2011 well i have a D620 with gma950 and it works with lion so far. but in 64bit you don't get full resolution.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glougloumouth Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Thanks a lot for the feedback. I am waiting any day now a D630, 2.2GHz with X3100 video card and the 1440x900 screen. I also have at hand a WD Scorpio Black and 8GB RAM... This should perform really well, for a very decent total price. I'll use the original HD (80GB) to test Lion installations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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