Corsair H50 Review

Last weekend I replaced my stock Intel heatsink with the Corsair H50. I wasn’t happy with the temperatures I was getting with the stock Intel fan, and it was starting to get noisy (which would have been okay if it could pick a speed and stick with it). The H50 wasn’t too hard to install, [...] Read more »

10.6.5 on P5Q Pro Turbo

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Apple released the 10.6.5 update today. As usual, if you have a vanilla system, go ahead and update but replace SleepEnabler with the 10.6.5 version. Update: If you forgot to replace SleepEnabler before updating and you’re getting a kernel panic, boot into single user mode, type /sbin/mount -uw /, and then type rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/SleepEnabler.kext [...] Read more »

How to Install Retail Snow Leopard on a Gateway NV53A24U

I finally installed OS X on my laptop, and it runs better than I thought it would. You can thank John, who commented on my previous post, for making me want to do this. I’ve had two other AMD hackintoshes, and this is the quickest one I’ve had. However, there are a few things you [...] Read more »