I am looking to purchase a new computer, my other is 2years old now.

I would like mac, but had previously not been able to do so because of the nForce troubles on SATA with AMD. So I gave up in the end, didn't have enough spare time to bother.

Now I'm looking to buy an Intel with the chipset of nForce 600i series (specically, I'm looking at the NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI MCP) would this be supported straight by the Mac OS or would it need a separate driver like the one coded by 'medevil' and 'bikedude880'?

The only reason I am wondering if it would be a straight support, is because it is the Intel version.


Thanks guys in advance

TheFighter

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Why do you expect an nVidia chipset for an Intel CPU to work any better than one for an AMD CPU? In some cases they use not only the same logic inside the chipsets but they often even are the same actual chipsets (e.g. the nForce 570 for AMD CPUs is also known as the MCP55, which is also used as the Southbridge in nForce 680i chipsets (they use hypertransport interconnects between nb-sb so this, while unusual, is no issue for nVidia)

There's a bloody 20 page long thread you have obviously ignored. No, it doesn't work on MCP51 (That's the southbridge of the nForce 650i, also known as the nForce 430 and used as the southbridge on AMD nForce 6100 IGP chipsets). You can't WRITE to SATA drives. Buy yourself a cheap PCI SATA card if you must have it. I'm getting so sick of these posts; I wish one of the mods would sticky a list of hardware which is known not to work which people keep asking about.

Azurael, thanks for that reply. just next time, try not to be such a dick. I can understand it getting annoying, but all that has to be done for you is to stop reading them. and yes. you can write to sata drives, nvidia nforce works up to nforce 4. we just need someone with coding experience to modify the nforce 4 kext to work with the 410/430 chipsets.

just try to be a bit nicer, no need to be a dick.

No need to use such an offensive word; I'm just trying to persuade people to search before they post!