| Component | Ideal Choice | Why it works | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / Core i7-920 (Bloomfield) | SSE4.1 support; Native speedstep | | Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R or GA-P55-UD3R | Rock-solid ACPI; Well-documented DSDTs | | Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT / GTX 260 (Fermi not supported fully) | Fully QE/CI support via built-in drivers | | Audio | Realtek ALC888 or ALC889 | MultiBeast includes patched AppleHDA.kext | | Ethernet | Realtek RTL8111D | Stable BCM5722D or RealtekR1000 kexts included | | RAM | 4GB DDR2/DDR3 | Snow Leopard 32-bit kernel limit is 32GB, but 4GB is sweet spot |
For Snow Leopard, the process generally follows these steps: multibeast 3101 snow leopard