Hi,

Why is this board often recommended? D975XBX2 (Bad Axe)

As far as I can tell it needs patching, does not have on board video, and is much more expensive than other boards with those features?

What an I missing?

(I'm looking for a stable board likely to work with 10.4 -> 1.6)

Thank you,

. . this mobo & the Asus P5WDH are popular & well-proven for Linux/OSX86; & because they are 'clocker's boards are stable by design. The Asus will work with 45nm C2Ds with the latest firmware, & for all I know the Intel will too.

. . they'll last till the EOL of s775, so 'nuff said.

With a GeForce 7600GS or GT and the IDE set to AHCI, the only patch needed is sound (you only get 2 chan out). Everything else works straight out of the box for Leopard. It runs EFI with vanilla kernel, so future updates are likely to be easy. And it overclocks well.

Thank you for the reply Shoarthing,So it is "just" a good card, and not recommended for OSX compatibility?For compatibility, a cheaper mobo may be better?Thank you,waltherntsmkfob,Thank you for the reply, your reply came before my reply, so I was replying to the first reply, thx again for the reply,...