somorastik Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Hi, Im about to build a new hackintosh, so Im trying to get as many opinions on the configuration Im about to buy. I already googled the net for several sleepless nights. ;-) Soooo... I want the hackintosh for a DAW (Digital audio workstation) tu use with my ALESIS firewire multimix. So the main thing for me is to have a board with fully functional firewire. MAINBOARD: GIGABYTE EP45-DS3 http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...?ProductID=2843 I picked this one based on the EFIX supported boards, however Im nt going to use efix, and I want to keep the Hackintosh as much low budged as I can, and I want it to be small, but powerfull. This is an ATX board but I guess I would rather go with mATX EG31MF which had pretty good reviews on x86 compatibility. or GIGABYTE EG31MF http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...?ProductID=2890 Another thing, can I use a 500GB SATAII drive along with a DVD optical SATA drive? the mAtx supports 800MHz ram, the ATX 1066MHz, is that a huge difference for performance? I guess the P45 chip is better than the G31 on mATX... The graphic would be an ASUS 7300GT silent 256MB (that shouldnt be a problem right?) http://www.alza.sk/graficka-karta-asus-en7...-htd-d63549.htm I will be using USB both mouse and keyboard. and an INTEL Core 2 Duo E7400- 2,80GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB cache, socket 775, BOX (Penryn, Wolfdale) Thanks a trillion times for help! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0rk007hck Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I would go for the EP45-DS3, it has better support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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