joshwa Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Hey, folks, I'm looking to put together a box dedicated to OSx86-- but mostly cobbled together from parts from my current 2 year old PC. Can anyone recommend a motherboard/cpu combo that support the following: reasonably fast (I don't need bleeding edge, what with the other components of this system, but I will be running Photoshop under Rosetta, so it can't be *too* painful) DDR (I've got 1.5GB of perfectly good DDR400) working onboard video, with QE/CI/openGL working IDE (again, I have several perfectly good ATA133 HDDs waiting to be used) working onboard sound (good enough for watching d/l'ed tv) DDR is really the hard part-- I'd really prefer not to sink another $150-200 into RAM. I don't care about overclocking, dual video, superb sound, just compatibility with the above components and with OSx86 with a mininum of extra patching/etc-- or at least known working patches. Can anyone recommend me a good combination? I tried searching the forum for "DDR", but I drowned in DDR2 results. Thanks, --joshwa Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26485-low-end-mobocpu-recs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 easiest thing to do is goto newegg.com and search for mobo's with your requirements then cross refrence them with the wiki's HCL....thats what I did and I ended up with a great choice for my needs.... only reason why I say new egg is because they have pretty good prices and an excellent selection...although I'm sure you could do it with some other parts websites.... btw if you can get a celeron they seem to be the best cheap processor because of sse3 support...plus they are pretty snappy...i'm so glad I bought mine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26485-low-end-mobocpu-recs/#findComment-179785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matchop Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 i wouldnt recommend celeron though.. try to get at least PD 805.. there isnt much diff in price.. celeron s(word) to death.. lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26485-low-end-mobocpu-recs/#findComment-179857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohoyt Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Hey I got a damn cheap mobo off eBay for £12.95, its a Giga-byte GA915g-MF. Although it doesn't support Pentium Duals it supports pretty much all of the other LGA775 CPUs. It only has 1 IDE channel, but has 4 SATA (I havent tested them tho), 4 DDR400/333 slots up to a gig each, Intel GMA900 graphics (QE and CI work fine), onboard ethernet and sound (although no luck yet with it). Basically its pretty good and dirt cheap, I'll try installing CS2 when I get a bigger HD, I only have 10gig at the mo, don't I dont expect it to run particularly fast as I only have a Celeron 2.67GHz and 256mb of 266 DDR Ram. Hope that helped a bit... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26485-low-end-mobocpu-recs/#findComment-180801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBond007 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Hey, folks, I'm looking to put together a box dedicated to OSx86-- but mostly cobbled together from parts from my current 2 year old PC. Can anyone recommend a motherboard/cpu combo that support the following: reasonably fast (I don't need bleeding edge, what with the other components of this system, but I will be running Photoshop under Rosetta, so it can't be *too* painful) DDR (I've got 1.5GB of perfectly good DDR400) working onboard video, with QE/CI/openGL working IDE (again, I have several perfectly good ATA133 HDDs waiting to be used) working onboard sound (good enough for watching d/l'ed tv) DDR is really the hard part-- I'd really prefer not to sink another $150-200 into RAM. I don't care about overclocking, dual video, superb sound, just compatibility with the above components and with OSx86 with a mininum of extra patching/etc-- or at least known working patches. Can anyone recommend me a good combination? I tried searching the forum for "DDR", but I drowned in DDR2 results. Thanks, --joshwa hey, look at the ASUS P5P800 SE http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131574 I was in the same boat as you with 2GB DDR ram, AGP (not PCIe) video. This board gets you working IDE/SATA/Ethernet/Sound (althought output is on the mic jack) and it supports the dual core cpus. I'm running it with an 805D. No onboard video though so you might wait to pair it up with an x1600. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26485-low-end-mobocpu-recs/#findComment-181096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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