Ben333 Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Can anyone tell me a good one? I'm going to be doing a G5 powermac mod, one I think will look better than many I've seen. I don't care if it's a 775 board or one for the newer i5 / i7 CPUs... but 775 would be easier for me to build on a budget. Don't mention a board if it isn't perfect, I'm looking for the easiest install. Something i can use a retail disc on and update, put it to sleep, use the audio, etc... The kind of board you'd use if you wanted to trick someone. Since I'm buying the board specifically for a hackintosh I'd like to get the best one. Low price is good but not required if with a cost comes a better experience. mATX I've decided would also be a plus. Going to be putting together a quad core box with atleast 4 GB of ram. I wan't it to run final cut and other software and maybe do some gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 you should look at the tutorials section, there's a lot of [GUIDE]s in there with boards. Read, and pick which one you think is the easiest one to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben333 Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 I'd think that there's someone here looking over these threads thinking they had a real easy time with the board they chose... or someone up to date on hardware that can think of all the chipsets, etc and which board would be easiest. I'll look over there but input from someone who knows their stuff would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Don't mention a board if it isn't perfect, I'm looking for the easiest install. Something i can use a retail disc on and update, put it to sleep, use the audio, etc... There is no perfect motherboard, so no one can suggest to you a "perfect" one. The perfect motherboard is the motherboard of a iMac or of a Mac Pro. Each motherboard has a defect, however small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben333 Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 All I mean is that I want to be able to make it perfect with minimal patching. If I can do a retail install, but need to throw in a couple ktexts to get everything working like a retail machine that's fine. Basically... just someone recommend me a board. It doesn't even have to be mATX I guess... Whatever is the best choice, or is so easy / works so well you'd say it has to be one of the best. Something still sold would be good too... I'm thinking of another (had one previously) EP45 - UD3P but don't want to buy used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Asus P5KPL-AM Asus P5K-SE/EPU Asus P5Q Pro Turbo Asus P6t Deluxe Vi & V2 In all this motherboards I have installed Snow retail with minimal effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben333 Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 Well, the only one still being sold on newegg that you listed is the ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS or the ASUS P5KPL-AM EPU. The others I could not find... I'd like a board than can do at least 8 gigs of RAM. s775 is ok also I guess, in a way its better because I'll save some dough but still have a nice amount of ram and a quad core. I appreciate the personal reply rather than "use the search" or "google it" because theres a ton of boards out there and software is always changing. I have indeed been doing a good amount of research but can't decide on anything I've found. A new Gigabyte P55 board sounded good till I read somewhere that only the early version of it had a compatible audio chipset or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 Well, the only one still being sold on newegg that you listed is the ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS or the ASUS P5KPL-AM EPU. The others I could not find... I'd like a board than can do at least 8 gigs of RAM. s775 is ok also I guess, in a way its better because I'll save some dough but still have a nice amount of ram and a quad core. I appreciate the personal reply rather than "use the search" or "google it" because theres a ton of boards out there and software is always changing. I have indeed been doing a good amount of research but can't decide on anything I've found. A new Gigabyte P55 board sounded good till I read somewhere that only the early version of it had a compatible audio chipset or something like that. Asus P5PKPL-AM/EPU don't suppot 8G http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=iRlP...=specifications Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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