What would be the best choice in mainboard?

[irix]

Hi all,

 

I've used OSX86 for quite a while now. I had iAtkos and iDeneb for about all the 10.5 versions but hey, it's time to move on.

 

I've read a lot about installing 10.6 from the retail dvd, so I tried a little with no success (didn't try hard enough though), but I noticed a slight difference.

In the 'old' days people always recommended P35 boards, but now I keep seeing the P45 boards pop up.

 

As I have them both doing nothing I wonder which one I should use:

 

Gigabyte P35-DS3R Rev. 1.0

Gigabyte EP45-DS3P Rev. 1.0

 

It will run with:

 

Core2Quad Q6700, not overclocked. Zalman cooler.

4GB DDR2 (quad channel, so 4x 1GB) >> maybe I'll upgrade to 6GB when I find some modules lying around. I'm planning to using 64 bit anyway

Geforce 8800GT (MSI version), 512MB

External audio (firewire), so not the onboard HD Audio thingy

Reloop digital jockey 2 interface edition

Korg Zero 8 firewire mixer

An extra firewire board, pci-express

Sandisk cardreader (USB)

1 or 2 Firewire DV cams

 

All of this did work on 10.5.6 and 10.5.8

 

My questions are:

 

What problems could I encounter using this combination?

Which of the two mainboards should I use?

Can I just disable the onboard audio as I'm not planning to use it anyway?

Any other stuff I should bother about?

Or... maybe just stick to 10.5.8 (I'll reinstall anyhow, the previous install was a bit laggy on the audio part and I wanted to use another harddisk, so just make it a clean install)

 

Thanks in advance!