zummo Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I am building inexpensive new PC, so I thought I could make a dualboot Snow Leopard & Win 7 (64bit). Here are my thoughts, you are welcome to give me your opinions GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L LGA Intel Celeron 3300 (dual core) Asus Nvidia geForce 8400 GS 4GB ram Will all work straight from installation, or som modding is needed, especially for graphic. It should be used for photoshop (cs5), lightroom, once in few months avid and thats it. Any thoughts, opinions, and all welcome. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cakeninja Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Motherboard : GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 2.0 Intel G31/ICH7 Board works, issues with a few things. (Just built PC on 9/17/2009) Installed bootable USB with Snow Leopard and boot.plist Sound RealTek ALC883 use DSDT patch and legacy kext LAN Does NOT work OOB SATA works OOB sleep did not work OOB only patches needed are needed for most boards, DSDT, Legacy Kexts, Disabler etc Tested on : C2D E8400 3G 775 45N, MEM 2GX2|MUSHKIN 996580 DII800, VGA EVGA 256-P2-N753-TR 8600GT 256M (need EFI String) GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard, Seagate 500 GB HD, SONY DVD-DL EFI and Kernel Works Patching Required ------OR------ GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 2.0 Intel G31/ICH7 A fairly straight forward install by a newbian Created a USB installer with myHack Installer 1.0 RC4.1 + DSDT Patcher Sound RealTek ALC883: Not being used so I didn't install LAN: Didn't use onboard, used Netgear GA311 SATA works OOB Sleep: SleepEnabler patch Patches: com.apple.Boot.plist, GraphicsEnabler, LegacyAppleRTC, fakesmcV2, NullCPUPowermanagement, OpenHaltRestart, PlatformUUID Tested On: Celeron 430, 2GB Kingston Value RAM, Asus EN8400GS 512M, GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 2.0 BIOS FB --------------------------------- Celeron Processor will Probably Need Legacy Kernel --------------------------------- Nvidia 8400GS Reported as working With EFI code --------------------------------- Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Why not buy an Asus P5Q (not Deluxe, expensive) instead? Only slightly more expensive than the GIGABYTE , but very compatible (and better value for money). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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