Motherboard D945GTPLKR today is old technology.

[Hiro_]

Guys i'm building a new OSx86 BOX for me, and i buyed a motherboard of the intel D945GTPLKR, i find than it's a good mobo, but i was thinking if it would be today with your old technology, since than i buyed it, the Intel released more of 7 new chipsets upper to mine. Well today the more newest chipset is D975 Express - It is compatible with OS X? Someone would recommend than i changed mine mobo for it?

[Hiro_]

Please guys, i need of another opinion!!

[errandwolfe]

Well my opinion is the 945 boards rock. Have had almost zero issues with mine and love it. It is also my understanding and I may be wrong here that the higher board (975 etc..) really don't offer many huge benefits other then supporting the Core chips. Add on to that the fact that hackintoshes still seem to be working out the bugs to run Core chips, and I see no reason to spend money on the more advanced board. Remember 10.5 is coming out within a few more months. Who knows if it will even be able to be modified to run on non-Apple hardware so why spend the money for higher grade hardware if in 6 months you may be able to run nothing but Windows or Linux on it. Also I am not sure if the boards higher then 945 have the GMA 950 GPU which seems to be the most compatible of all the GPU's currently tried and certainly the only one with dependable dual-display. Remember barring small modifications like the TPM chip, the Intel 945 boards are pretty much exactly what are in the current line MacIntels (if my memory serves me correctly).

 

Hope that helps you some.

[Order2Chaos]

From what I hear the D975XBX works with OSX , it does offer quite a few nice features not found on the D945 including conroe support on Rev 304 of the board. Any revision below 304 would require soldering about 4 tiny resistors to gain Conroe support.

 

One nice feature is debug mode where you can override the default FSB for your chip , so you could run an 800mhz FSB CPU at 1066. You also have the ability to change core voltage for overclocking and mess with something called Enhanced power slope.

 

The D975 also supports crossfire which would be very nice if you plan on doing any gaming , and I believe it may also work with nvidia SLI at some point. The D945 is a very nice board , but if you're an enthusiast and looking for overclocking and multi GPU support the 975X is clearly supperior in those areas.

[Hiro_]

Thanks errandwolfe, i agree with everything than you say, and i wait than i can run 10.5 in this motherboard without troubles, the than i find than will happen, therefore MacMini and MacBooks run with same GPU. For my processor i go buy the more fast Pentium D available, not is Core Duo but is Dual Core, already is a advance.

 

 

Order2Chaos you say than i can overclocking the GMA950?

[errandwolfe]

You are very welcome Junio. I have a Pentium D and run full time with Parallels running Windows 2000 full time and notice zero lag (at least in OSX). For a CPU though I would suggest a P4 Extreme Edition as it supports the VT technology. Really helps if you are planning to run Parallels from what I hear. I know if I see a good deal on a P4 Extreme I will probably jump on it.

[RiceTea]

Your most obvious gain would result from switching to a Conroe-compatible mobo AND using a Conroe instead of the older Pentium stuff. Revised designs of chipset 945G mobos are Conroe-compatible and have the Intel 950 graphics on board. OSX 10.5 (if it ever works on OSX86 machines, this is all but clear) will still support this chipset including the 950 GPU. I would go for the latest revision of the Asus P5LD2-VM: known compatibility with OSX86, no graphics issues, added support for Conroe CPUs, relatively low price, sometimes tricky but manageable overclocker (though not known for the Conroe as yet).

 

 

Guys i'm building a new OSx86 BOX for me, and i buyed a motherboard of the intel D945GTPLKR, i find than it's a good mobo, but i was thinking if it would be today with your old technology, since than i buyed it, the Intel released more of 7 new chipsets upper to mine. Well today the more newest chipset is D975 Express - It is compatible with OS X? Someone would recommend than i changed mine mobo for it?

[Hiro_]

You are very welcome Junio. I have a Pentium D and run full time with Parallels running Windows 2000 full time and notice zero lag (at least in OSX). For a CPU though I would suggest a P4 Extreme Edition as it supports the VT technology. Really helps if you are planning to run Parallels from what I hear. I know if I see a good deal on a P4 Extreme I will probably jump on it.

 

ErrandWolfe the P4 Extreme is upper to Pentium D? I not knew of this. It works best than the Pentium D with dual core?

 

 

SammyOSX86 i not right understand this than you say here:

Revised designs of chipset 945G mobos are Conroe-compatible and have the Intel 950 graphics on board.

You say than D945G will can it work with conroe? I not finded nothing about this in Intel homepage.

[RiceTea]

You say than D945G will can it work with conroe? I not finded nothing about this in Intel homepage.

 

Yep, Intel won´t like it but Asus (and others) did it! Look here:

http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=3806

[errandwolfe]

ErrandWolfe the P4 Extreme is upper to Pentium D? I not knew of this. It works best than the Pentium D with dual core?

SammyOSX86 i not right understand this than you say here:

 

You say than D945G will can it work with conroe? I not finded nothing about this in Intel homepage.

Junio,

Yes the P4 Extreme is the next step up from the P4D. Both the D and Extreme are considered dual-core, the difference is the Extreme supports Intel's VT technology ( which give a good boost to Parallels). No, the Intel 945 G boards will not work with a Conroe.