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iATKOS v7 Hardware Compatibility

Hardware Compatibility Information of iATKOS v7 (Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7):

CPU:
- Celeron D and newer processors are supported.
>> Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs are not supported <<
Celeron D / Pentium D / CoreDuo / Atom / Core2Duo / Core2Quad / Xeon ?

- Some of the AMD CPUs are supported (Athlon and newer).

Motherboard:
- Please read with attention and do not continuously ask questions about your motherboard compatibility.

- Simply, chipsets from 945G to P45 are supported. Common chips are 945, 965, 975, P35, G31, G41, G43, P43 and P45.

- Besides the main chipset model, a motherboard has many components. Every component itself may or may not be compatible and even may be problematic for Leopard. Also, BIOS of the motherboard may be problematic to run Leopard. Because of these reasons, some motherboards will not be able to run this OS easily, some of them will need hard efforts in order to make it partially work and some of them will never run it.

GPU:
- Intel Graphics GMA950 and GMA900 is supported, the rest are not.

- nvidia vga cards from NV34 core to GT218 series are supported on 10.5.7 (NV34, NV35, NV36, NV37, NV38, NV40, NV41, NV42, NV43, NV44, G70, G71, G72, G73, G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, G98, C79, GT200, GT215, GT216, GT218).
This does not mean that all of them will work of course, but most of them will work with iATKOS S3.
Some of them will work with issues and some of them may not even work. You will have to try and see it yourself.

Simply, nvidia 5xxx/ 6xxx/ 7xxx / 8xxx / 9xxx / 1xx / 2xx cards are supported.

- ATI HD 7xxx/6xxx/5xxx are not supported. Some of the HD 4xxx/3xxx/2xxx/X1xxx cards work with modified drivers and the users will have to take the additional steps to use such cards after installation. ATI 9xxx is not supported.

RAM:
- Recommended minimum amount of RAM is 1GB.

Disk Space:
- Recommended minimum amount of disk space for installation is 15GB.