JustinAiken Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Okay, so back in December I got an Asus Striker Extreme mobo... piece of junk. I've tried installing a couple different installations (Kalyway, LEO4ALL v2 and v3) on it, never succeeded. But now the unstable motherboard is crashing alot in Windows too, so I'm just going to get a new one altogether. Here's my other specs: Case: Antec P90 Chip: Intel Q6600 Video: MSI 8800GTS 640MB OC (Considering selling this and downgrading; any recommendations for a decent non-gaming card?) Ram: 8 GB DDR2 Hard Discs: Several SATA, one ESATA, 2 USB, and one IDE (I'd prefer MacOS to go here) Sound: Digidesign 002 So can someone recommend me a good board that will make OSX86 installation as easy as possible, support my hardware, be stable, and run good? Limit would be around $200... Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.mcgoo Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 The wiki has good list of compatible motherboards depending on which version of OS X you want to run. The Asus p5w dh mobo is one of the most compatible boards for running Leopard. I'm running 10.5.3 with everything working except Time Machine which will be fix someday I hope, but it's not a big worry. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/#findComment-791443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinAiken Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Time Machine doesn't matter to me... and I want the latest, 10.5.3, so that's good. Looking at that one though it only has one firewire... that is a downside. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/#findComment-791520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Video: MSI 8800GTS 640MB OC (Considering selling this and downgrading; any recommendations for a decent non-gaming card?) I have a XFX GeForce 7900 GT. Also good for light gaming and it should be cheap now. Great OS X compatibility (only available used, I suppose). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/#findComment-791532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinAiken Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Nice... looks like it's only $50-60 on ebay and that should be perfect for me... thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/#findComment-791548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuru Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I'm a complete OSX86 noob and I had no trouble getting an Asus P5K-VM running with Kaly 10.5.2. I only had to patch the onboard sound, everything else (lan, 4 x SATA, firewire) all worked out of the box. I threw in an ATI card to get QE/CI and more resolutions. It's running like a dream. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/#findComment-791550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinAiken Posted June 21, 2008 Author Share Posted June 21, 2008 Okay, after looking at the list on the wiki along with lots of other threads, I've ordered: Abit IP-35 Pro Geforce 8600GTS - Fanless (Yay!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/#findComment-792367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thespottedelf Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 go with the dfi blood iron and a 8600gt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111717-recommend-me-a-motherboard/#findComment-793047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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