rhambus Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hey all, I have been lurking for a while and have decided to try building a hackintosh, but with a new baby in the house I don't really have the time or patience to go through all the rigmarole that is involved in getting most motherboards to work. What I wanted to pick your brains about was whether anyone knew about a motherboard that is 1. working without any patches for some reasonably recent iteration of OSX and 2. cheap. Here's the situation: I have a working Pentium D 805 LGA 775 processor sitting around. Ideally, I would like to find a micro ATX board to put it in that would need no tweaking or at the most very little. Secondarily, I would like it to be as cheap as possible (old is fine too, as I have an 805 here so really a brand spanking new board is not necessary). Does anyone have any ideas on what models to look for? I was actually thinking about going with Intel's Atom 330 board (the D945GCLF2) because I heard it pretty much worked right out of the box, but I suspect the Pentium D 805 will be faster than the dual-core Atom and plus you can overclock the 805. I just want a board where everything works. Multichannel sound would be nice as I may use this for an HTPC but stereo won't kill me either. Any help would be appreciated! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188897-cheap-board-for-easy-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
agrajag Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hey all, I have been lurking for a while and have decided to try building a hackintosh, but with a new baby in the house I don't really have the time or patience to go through all the rigmarole that is involved in getting most motherboards to work. What I wanted to pick your brains about was whether anyone knew about a motherboard that is 1. working without any patches for some reasonably recent iteration of OSX and 2. cheap. Have a look at the Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L mATX MB. It should use your cpu fine and there is a ton of info on it on these boards and elsewhere. Try to get a Rev 1.x board as its LAN chip is supported (but the newer Rev 2 is not). You will also probably want an inexpensive PCIe graphics card as the onboard video is not that great. I built a system using it (I had a HD and memory already) for $350. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188897-cheap-board-for-easy-install/#findComment-1281248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhambus Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 Thanks! I was looking around for one of those, but no luck yet. I'll keep searching, I think. It seems to be the easiest. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188897-cheap-board-for-easy-install/#findComment-1284698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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