RiceTea Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 We can also buy the actual Apple OEM cards too, here is some related information on the Apple Graphics Upgrade Kits for Mac Pro: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23836 As expected, it is getting interesting! I hope the first reports of using this card running OSX86 come in soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 Another motherboard people want to consider is the Gigabyte GA-945P-S3. Although I have yet to check the manual, it appears to have full range of overclocking features: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...?ProductID=2324 Although it is not clear if this motherboard is shipping yet, the price is nice at about $100: http://gamegiants.net/product_info.php?products_id=536 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 As mentioned by SammyOSX86, Asus has revised versions of their 945 motherboards for Conroe. In particular, the Asus P5LD2 (version PCB R2.0, not -VM) looks like another potential great choice for overclocking: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&...amp;modelmenu=1 Again it is not clear if Conroe supporting version PCB R2.0 is shipping but the price should be right at little over $110: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131538 It should be noted that these 945 motherboards are rated for DDR2-667 while the 975 are designed to handle DDR2-800. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezhoon Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Yup, I made the mistake of buying 965 for that but I got mine returned as for my luck you could say.. i got a faulty board which is good in this case as I now got P5W with full support!!!!!!!! If you want to you can boot from usb, that works! Is the Marvell 88E8053 working too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceTea Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 According to the HCL, yes. Is the Marvell 88E8053 working too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuruu Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 So it is confirmed that the 965 will not work because of the ICH8. Have you tried changing the SATA modes in bios? Will any 975 board work? DFI Infinity 975 X/G (i975/PCI-e/DDR2-6400/1394/8Ch) I'd really like to get a core2 duo processor machine soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 So it is confirmed that the 965 will not work because of the ICH8. Not at all, it just has not worked in the first attempt and because OSx86 is finicky about booting, it looks like it is going to be a hassle due to the lack "native" IDE support. Will any 975 board work? Any 975 or 945 (ICH7) board that supports Core2Duo should basically work. As always, you have to check out the LAN and audio chipset details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 The Asus P5W DH Deluxe is being reported to have some BIOS issues: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107648 The P5W series is being advertised as Conroe-ready, but what ASUS forgot to mention to its customers was the fact that in many of the retail boxes feature old versions of the BIOS, which do not support Conroe as such. Many of the boards in the channel come with 0401 and 0501 revs which simply refuse to boot if the Conroe CPU is occupying the Socket - the board has to have 0601, 0701 or 0901 BIOS for Conroe to work flawlessly. http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33523 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stainboy Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 hi all again. me and graeme43 are runing so tune up at the new rigs. i allready got 148 on the bench. my guess is that he's going to blow all scores..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceTea Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Congrats, this is simply awesome! hi all again. me and graeme43 are runing so tune up at the new rigs. i allready got 148 on the bench. my guess is that he's going to blow all scores..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme43 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Congrats, this is simply awesome! I hit 3GHz just by turning up the fsb its stable. I have been up to 3.3 without crashing. 3.46 rebooted at windows desktop Stay tuned for Xbench Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezhoon Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 According to the HCL, yes. I just searched all over the HCL but couldn't find any reference of Marvell 88E8053 Can you point me to the right direction, please? stainboy, Is your onboard LAN (Marvell 88E8053) working too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stainboy Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 both onboard lan are working on my p5w dh. didnt have to do anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 I hit 3GHz just by turning up the fsb its stable. I have been up to 3.3 without crashing. 3.46 rebooted at windows desktop Stay tuned for Xbench Kick ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stainboy Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 ok, installed ilife, iwork now what?? i'm just looking at it......... ehehehe its so dam fast. i wonder how games will do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 Can you post your complete Xbench result? Just save it as text and copy it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanis Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I'm buying a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 tomorrow prolly. Has anyone tested doing a plist editing to see if sata works? If anyone knows the device id of the sata controller would be of great help, I'll use my old motherboard to do the editing and then put the new one to see if it works. Maybe the SATA controller is compatible and we just need to edit that to make it work. I saw ICH6 references when you load a SATA drive on a ICH7 southbridge, so if Intel didn't change the specs, we maybe can get SATA to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernov Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Could you also like give us a little guide to how you got everything working? It would be great to buy this stuff since I'm almost at the point to upgrade my hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stainboy Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 first of all, i wanted a pc that could run both win and osx so i installed windows, installed acronis, created a 100gb partition logical fat32. installed OS selector from acronis, on next boot i inserted iso image dvd and installed osx. next boot when os selector poped (i dont know why users say it takes too long...here takes 2 seconds from loading acronis os selector to chosing the os) the in tools select disk director then convert the partition to primary (i did set it to active but in the tutorial it says not to) then...voila. it was runing. lan was working fine, just installed the boris methode from some installers.... web site and did the azalia setup. i installed osx with speedstep disabled, HD disabled and Jmicron disabled. now HD is enable and working fine...2 channel out as usual. i get ALL screen resolutions and changes and all. i'll post the xbench as soon as i log in the forum in my new mac. ups machack hackmac... whatever. my new computer. http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=1810...;setCookie=true i know you asked in some kind of text file... the thing is... i'm new to this, dont know how to copy paste it to a text file... so i submited the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conroe Mac Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 So it is confirmed that the 965 will not work because of the ICH8.Have you tried changing the SATA modes in bios? The default on the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 is: SATA Port0-3 Native Mode [disabled] Onboard SATA/IDE Device [enabled] Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode [iDE] So I don't think anything needs to be changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stainboy Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 i'm soooooooooo stupid. here it is: Results 150.44 System Info Xbench Version 1.2 System Version 10.4.6 (8I1119) Physical RAM 1024 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type Maxtor 7V300F0 CPU Test 138.25 GCD Loop 333.67 17.59 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 160.01 3.80 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 100.67 3.32 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 102.52 17.85 Mops/sec Thread Test 282.17 Computation 258.24 5.23 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 310.99 13.38 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 180.13 System 182.09 Allocate 139.02 510.53 Kalloc/sec Fill 227.51 11062.07 MB/sec Copy 204.65 4226.93 MB/sec Stream 178.21 Copy 171.06 3533.16 MB/sec Scale 172.29 3559.49 MB/sec Add 185.66 3954.87 MB/sec Triad 184.88 3955.10 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 115.10 Line 101.69 6.77 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 102.99 30.75 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 100.23 8.17 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 127.27 3.21 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 164.92 10.32 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 216.55 Spinning Squares 216.55 274.71 frames/sec User Interface Test 129.18 Elements 129.18 592.88 refresh/sec Disk Test 109.25 Sequential 126.22 Uncached Write 138.31 84.92 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 118.44 67.01 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 130.14 38.09 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 120.02 60.32 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 96.31 Uncached Write 73.78 7.81 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 114.28 36.59 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 94.48 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 115.66 21.46 MB/sec [256K blocks] i'm learning i'm learning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conroe Mac Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Let me know how it goes Arcanis! I'm eager for a solution to this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stainboy Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 hey bofors, is anything i can do to improve? i dont really need much improvement but since we are all on testing setup... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 How exactly do you get so much juice from your conroe 2? (how is your setting for the overclocking, the memories are highly important or it can be done with cheaper memory?) your results are fantastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme43 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Memory is important, say if I want 3.6GHz, I do 400x9 and the memory runs at 400mhz which is DDR800 My AB9 didn't let my memory run faster tha 282mhz so I was basically stuck with 2.5GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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