Sameth Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Well that might be overstating it, but it seems from my experience it might not be far off. Currently I have the following setup: Asus P5GPL MB - onboard sound and gigabit ethernet 3gig Pentium 4 SSE3 etc 2x512 ram running dual channel Radeon x300 PCIe 80gig SATA HDD 20gig ATA HDD Surecom 10/100 PCI ethernet card 4x DVD Burner USB Keyboard and Mouse I did a native install from the latest 10.4.5 dvd which is around, and with this setup it not only went through the install flawlessly, but there was not a single component that didnt function or required any form of tweeking at all. I installed to the 20gig ATA drive as the other drive has windows XP on it, which I will add I have no trouble swapping between, as the BIOS on this board has a drive boot selection tool on startup, simply hit F8 and chose the drive you wish to boot off, it will even boot off an external USB HDD I have. Sound, video, dvd playback, quartz, 3d acceleration (tested wow at a comfortable 30fps and the x300 is a crappy card), I have Azureus up and running fine, toast, ADSL connected via the PPPoE client and then have Internet connection sharing on top of that. Running it at 1280x1024 res currently, and that was about the only thing I had to do manually, as resolution selection doesnt work. I do still have the mouse cursor tearing effect, which is mildly annoying I hope something is done about that soon, but really a minor irritation. The 80gig NTFS drive is fully viewable and readable, but being NTFS it is read only, so I used partition magic to resize it, and created a 50gig partition which I have setup through OSX to give myself more space to work with, no issues there either. If I boot the system with the USB external HDD it detects that fine too, although i havent got it to detect it properly on the fly yet only if I boot with it already plugged in. So far, its fast, smooth, installed flawlessly and everything works and I can happily dual boot, although I am using 2 seperate physical HDD to achieve that. Looks overall to me to be an excellent choice for running a system off. Anything I should test and havent at this point? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11979-asus-p5gpl-the-perfect-board/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
affeee Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Sounds great! How about the fanspeed on CPU and GPU, or perhaps the X300 is fanless? Does sleepmode works? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11979-asus-p5gpl-the-perfect-board/#findComment-75996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
declan Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Looking good, i went for the Asus P5LD2-VM as it has the GMA950 chipset, but still has a PCI-E 16 for my Geforce 6600GT 256MB for XP Media Centre, now if only OS X supported Geforce Cards..ZZZ Well i can dream can't i.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11979-asus-p5gpl-the-perfect-board/#findComment-76001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sameth Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 x300 is fanless and the CPU I have a manual fan speed control on it, i.e. a little nob I can turn to adjust that is currently hanging out the back of my case until I sort it out more permanently heh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11979-asus-p5gpl-the-perfect-board/#findComment-76425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sp4Rx Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Hey Sameth, can you tell me what was the exact release your using, so I can search for it. I have pretty much the exact same specs as you. Thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11979-asus-p5gpl-the-perfect-board/#findComment-591753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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