dsc106 Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 I'm thinking of this board: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128358 I am able to get a FREE 45nm Quad Core from a friend, so I need a mobo that supports 45nm. Will this motherboard work well out of the box with Leopard? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdashali Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Have a working Hackintosh with Sleep, Restart and Shutdown using Kalyway 10.5.2 Here are my specs: GA P45 DS3R (BIOS F10) C2D E8400 @ Stock ASUS 2600XT 256MB Disk0 - Seagate 200GB IDE (OSX) Disk1 - WD 640GB SATA (WINXP) (AHCI disabled) DVDRW - LiteON SATA Everything work OOTB except (1) Sound. I see a number of threadd that have sound with the Realtek ALC889A but I couldn't get it working (2) Doesn't recognize USB drives most of the time. I need to resolve these two issues otherwise I see no performance issues with this board. You need to flash the BIOS in order to get started. Good luck. If anybody have any suggestions for my problem, please post. I am going to try iDeneb 10.5.5 this weekend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-972904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalUser Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 yeah, the gigabyte EP45 series seems to be well supported in general, and all will support 45nm processors. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128345 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128359 those are similar, minor changes between em, DS3L lacks firewire, UD3R lacks the 2nd PCI Express 2.0 8x slot for crossfire, which OSX cant do anyways. the EP45-UD3R & UD3P are the most recent revisions replacing the DS3R & DS3P. seems from the hackintosh perspective not much has changed with the revision, the boards just got a beefier cooling setup, more copper, etc... but that does mean you likely wont find info or a boot132 ISO specifically for the UD3R or UD3P, since they new, even tho the DS3 versions should be the same really. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-972920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 Ah, great. I am not too worried about sound - I bought an external SB Live that works out of the box... except it hooks up USB. And I do a ton of stuff with USB, so that is a must. Anyone else running this board and having USB problems - or success? If USB is not problematic, then I should be good to go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-972929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
modis Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 usb works fine for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-972948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 Sweet deal. So LogicalUser mentioned that UD3P is pretty much the same as DS3R, except with a few features he mentioned and a 2nd PCI-E port (which is a must, not for osx86, but for the Windows side and gaming). Any chance the EfiX will work with this motherboard even though it is not on their official compatibility list? http://www.efi-x.com/index.php?option=com_...anguage=english Or be updated with firmware to support it in the future? I guess I also just do not understand what the benefit of getting one of these EfiX modules really is. Does it really save that much trouble over just downloading Leo4all or something? (Yes, I do own a "real" Leopard disk. Would I just be able to install using that, just like I install on my Macbook Pro?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-972973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
modis Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 they both have 2x pci-e see the comparison here: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...uctID=2842,2919 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-972996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 oh ok. So about the efiX then? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-973004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalUser Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 EFI-X is a joke, you could achieve a similar result with a boot-132 bootloader, a $5 USB flash drive, and 30min of reading on these forums. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-973256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 using this motherboard, would it be better to boot OSX from a PATA (IDE) HDD... or from a SATA HDD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-973557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 and also, which is a better choice, this gigabyte mobo or the Asus P5Q Pro? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-973766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalUser Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 i would recommend using SATA hard drives, as well as a SATA DVD drive. i have no experience with Asus tho, so cannot provide a recommendation on that, other than by observing what others on this board seem to prefer, that being the gigabyte motherboards. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-973782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 Interesting. On my older Athlon s939 board, I couldn't even get some of the older releases to boot on anything but a PATA HDD. But SATA it is then...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-973903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalUser Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 keep in mind you are attempting to create the equivalent of a Mac, and apple moved to SATA for their products many years ago Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-973925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted November 22, 2008 Author Share Posted November 22, 2008 Right. I just remember when I built my first Hackintosh on Tiger a couple years ago on that Asus AMD board, I could not get the thing to boot on a SATA drive and had to instead use an IDE drive. But I guess SATA works now, and maybe it was just an issue with my mobo or the older drivers on that Tiger release or something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137468-gigabyte-p45-mobo-for-hackintosh/#findComment-974653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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