I just posted this in 360hacker.net but since it doesnt seem to be getting many hits lately ill post it here too.
I run an amd athlon 3200+ with an sis 754 chipset and i recently upgraded to an nforce3 board for osx purposes.. unfortunately, this proved to be a mistake. first of all i have a 6800gt for running games in windows, and the nforce3 doesnt seem to work very well with the 6800gt (framerates were horrible i even tweaked a ton and nothing fixed it) and in osx, with my 9600xt in there, qe and ci run unbelievably slow. i dont know if the problems are related, the 6800 and 9600 in osx, but i do know that the nforce3 does not work well for me. That and trying the install cd on an nforce3 machine will give you waiting for root device. So.... i went back to my sis chipset mobo and im gonna give my brother the nforce3 and hopefully he wont have problems cuz he has a 7800gs.... so.. do i have a question? am i informing you that nforce3 might suck? i guess Im looking for confirmation on that point. i like nforce chipsets, i had been led to believe that they were good... but i had nothing but a horrible experience with mine. the only bad thing about my sis chipset is that it has only two ram slots and i wont ever get osx ide drivers unless i port them myself from bsd.... blah.... what are your experiences with the nforce3 chipset? good/bad? in windows? in osx? whats the best amd socket 754 or 939 board for osx? Now that macs boot windows native, i might just buy one instead of trying to run this native on my machine... it just doesnt seem worth it if you cant get full acceleration.