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[keloooe]

From memory yes the Z77 chipset boards are compatible with OSX. The i5 by the sounds of it will work perfectly as well. 450 watts should be plenty for it, depending on what else you are using in the rig, and for getting OSX, ask around and see if any mates have any macs that you can use for getting your bootable USB!

[kimball492]

Doc did you get it to work

[DrNomis_44]

Doc did you get it to work

Haven't tried it yet mate, might give it a test out later on today or tomorrow, will let you know if it does work, I need to get some silver Heatsink compound and put some on the CPU before I can do any testing though.

[DrNomis_44]

From memory yes the Z77 chipset boards are compatible with OSX. The i5 by the sounds of it will work perfectly as well. 450 watts should be plenty for it, depending on what else you are using in the rig, and for getting OSX, ask around and see if any mates have any macs that you can use for getting your bootable USB!

I reckon a 450 Watt power supply should be enough to power a basic setup as the motherboard, graphics card, CPU fan, and the CPU, with no Ram, or HDD installed.