x58 motherboard, which one would you go for ?

[gnomesgames]

Hi,

I am building my first complete Hackintosh, and i'm currently looking for retail snow leopard compatible hardware.

I would like to use the 1366 intel socket, because i think i will have less trouble if i want to upgrade my processor in the future.

I've already read hundreds of posts about different build, and now i'm hesitating between these two motherboard...

 

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R seems ok as long as the rev 1.0 is concern, but rev 2.0 seems to have issues with audio, ethernet and DSDT (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=220199)

 

For the Asus P6T, most tutorial refer to the deluxe version (which is a little bit expensive ), and the non-deluxe/non-SE version doesn't seem to have much support , except for these two blogs :

http://trick77.com/2009/10/12/asus-p6t-64-bit-osx86/

http://www.fleebailey33.org/

 

 

Which one would you go for ? Does the 1136 socket and Gigabyte P55 motherboard have better compatibility/support ?

 

Thank for your help !

[gnomesgames]

Can someone with an Asus P6T tell me if its well supported ? I think i will buy it but i want to be sure that i will not have major issues with it...

 

Thanks !

[mac09hack]

Hi,

I am building my first complete Hackintosh, and i'm currently looking for retail snow leopard compatible hardware.

I would like to use the 1366 intel socket, because i think i will have less trouble if i want to upgrade my processor in the future.

I've already read hundreds of posts about different build, and now i'm hesitating between these two motherboard...

 

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R seems ok as long as the rev 1.0 is concern, but rev 2.0 seems to have issues with audio, ethernet and DSDT (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=220199)

 

For the Asus P6T, most tutorial refer to the deluxe version (which is a little bit expensive ), and the non-deluxe/non-SE version doesn't seem to have much support , except for these two blogs :

http://trick77.com/2009/10/12/asus-p6t-64-bit-osx86/

http://www.fleebailey33.org/

 

 

Which one would you go for ? Does the 1136 socket and Gigabyte P55 motherboard have better compatibility/support ?

 

Thank for your help !

I bought the EX58-UD5 about 6 months ago (1336) and am running it with an Intel i7 920 CPU. The only real difference in the i7 and the i5 is double vs triple channel memory accesses. There are starting to be more i5 CPU offerings though and I am concerned about the i7 futures.

 

My HacMac is running MacOS 10.6.3 from a retail Installer DVD. I used Kakewalk to install the working OS.

[phee]

I have a X58A-UD3R ver 1.0 and it runs OSX very well. Used Kakewalk to boot into the retail install disk and then [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for all the rest. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the ver. 1.0 of this board to someone looking to run OSX. I don't know about the 2.0 version or even if it is possible to get a version 1.0 now. Good luck either way.

[gnomesgames]

Thank for the feedbacks !

 

@mac09hack :

After reading your post, i tried to put together a different build (only the mobo and proc) using 1156 chipset. (Sorry for the french prices)

-GA-P55-UD4 (162 euros)

-i7 860 (246 euros)

Total => 408 euros

 

And here the 1366 build :

-Asus P6T (170 euros)

-i7 930 (269 euros)

Total => 439 euros

 

The two builds have similar performance, but the i7 930 is more overclockable. The price difference isn't so big between the two builds (only 31 euros => 40 dollars)

The most annoying part is the "futurproof" concern. Intel seems to still care for the X58 plateform, as they released the i7 980X,970 on it recently... But i agree that those processor cost 1000$, and there is no guaranty that Intel will release new and more affordable model on it in the future...

 

@phee :

Thanks, If i go for the x58 build, i will look for this mobo (rev 1.0) on the internet , i hope i can still find it somewhere...