Patrick Vick Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 My Alienware Area-51 system is a couple of years old, but I would like to salvage what I can and use it to make a Snow Leopard machine out of it. Does anyone know of a good mobo that will push my Q6600 intel quad chip? I have 4 gigs of ram to snap into the new board as well, the Win 7 box is using a nvidia nforce i680 chipset based mobo now which I do not think will work for apple. I also have an ATI 5830 videocard which I will have to replace with an nVidia offering for sure... I wonder what is worth getting there? Well, I am off to read through this forum and the wiki stuff, but thanks in advance for any suggestions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrinehart93 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 I'm running my Q6600 at 3.4GHz right now on an Asus P5QL Pro right now. So far, I've had absolutely no complaints. Pretty good motherboard, and it overclocks nicely (if that's your thing). Cost isn't too bad either. Right now I have a fully working iDeneb 10.5.6 on it, but I'm going to be installing Vanilla on it either later tonight or early tomorrow morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Vick Posted May 14, 2010 Author Share Posted May 14, 2010 Thanks for the info... that board looks nice. However, I do see some i680 based boards are working these days. I think mine is made by evga; time to double check! If I can drop an old nVidia 7000 series videocard in this box I have lying around perhaps I can get an OSX build going soon! UPDATE: It looks like my unit shipped with an XFX 680i board, the MB-N680-ISH. With an nVidia card it may work, I have an ATI 5830 in there now. After more reading on this forum it looks like some others have already gotten 10.6.3 going on my mobo, the XFX nForce 680i. So, I just need to snag a new videocard and I should be good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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