Kasakka Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I'm thinking of getting a new motherboard to replace my Abit IP35 for Hackintosh. The IP35 works fine otherwise but I have never ever been able to get sleep working and that's a deal breaker for me. I'm guessing that Gigabyte boards still have the best chance of working 100% in OSX Lion and further. But there are so many models, which is the definitive "best choice"? I need the following: -Firewire (for audio interface) -Working gigabit network obviously -100% WORKING SLEEP Rest of my system is nothing special: heavily overclocked Core2Quad (so overclocking performance also important), GTX260, 4GB DDR2, DVD drive Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259563-best-core2-motherboard-for-lion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swhay Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I'm thinking of getting a new motherboard to replace my Abit IP35 for Hackintosh. The IP35 works fine otherwise but I have never ever been able to get sleep working and that's a deal breaker for me. I'm guessing that Gigabyte boards still have the best chance of working 100% in OSX Lion and further. But there are so many models, which is the definitive "best choice"? I need the following: -Firewire (for audio interface) -Working gigabit network obviously -100% WORKING SLEEP Rest of my system is nothing special: heavily overclocked Core2Quad (so overclocking performance also important), GTX260, 4GB DDR2, DVD drive Thanks in advance. this is an old board, but I have some friends that are running Snow Leopard on it, and everything works (DSDT Mods). You will need a Realtek network kext, and a legacy kext for sound. You will also need a compatible video card, and a firewire card too. If I needed to build a Core 2 Duo Hackintosh system, this is the board I would buy. GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L LGA 775 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259563-best-core2-motherboard-for-lion/#findComment-1699503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasakka Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 No Firewire though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259563-best-core2-motherboard-for-lion/#findComment-1699935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mm67 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Gigabyte EP45-UD3,EP45-UD3R and EP45-UD3P are best boards for quad core overclocking and they are also excellent Hackintosh boards. EP45-UD3L and EP45-UD3LR also work fine with OS X but overclocking on them is a bit more limited. None of these board are sold in stores anymore but maybe you can find a good used one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259563-best-core2-motherboard-for-lion/#findComment-1700137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swhay Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 No Firewire though. Look for a syba firewire pci card... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259563-best-core2-motherboard-for-lion/#findComment-1700209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasakka Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share Posted June 21, 2011 Gigabyte EP45-UD3,EP45-UD3R and EP45-UD3P are best boards for quad core overclocking and they are also excellent Hackintosh boards. EP45-UD3L and EP45-UD3LR also work fine with OS X but overclocking on them is a bit more limited. None of these board are sold in stores anymore but maybe you can find a good used one. Thank you. Will look into what their differences are. My idea was indeed to just buy a used board cheaply. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259563-best-core2-motherboard-for-lion/#findComment-1701105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCom Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 I own an EP45-UD3P for two years now. Basically, everything's working on it. My only complaints are HD don't go to sleep and auto-sleep doesn't work either. I crashed a few times trying to update to 10.6.5, but finally stuck to 10.6.4 as I don't have any real complaint about it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259563-best-core2-motherboard-for-lion/#findComment-1711510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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