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Hi guys, I'm seriously thinking about buying this board "Gigabyte 965P-DQ6" for my next MAC together with core 2 duo E6600.

I will need everything to work on this board, SATA, USB, Firewire, LAN, audio... is that possible ?

 

I'm also planning to fit Geforce 7900 GT 256MB PCIe there.

Glad to hear that people got this working in the end.

 

However, I'm much more satisfied with the Bad Axe 2 than I was with that board.

 

For one, it doesn't have the power bug... where sometimes, you'll turn it on, it will power up, then power down, then power back up again. VERY bad for your power supply. And I got the same overclock on my Bad Axe I did with the DQ6... just took some tweaking.

 

But the Bad Axe works out of the box other than audio... more than I can say for the DQ6.

Glad to hear that people got this working in the end.

 

However, I'm much more satisfied with the Bad Axe 2 than I was with that board.

 

For one, it doesn't have the power bug... where sometimes, you'll turn it on, it will power up, then power down, then power back up again. VERY bad for your power supply. And I got the same overclock on my Bad Axe I did with the DQ6... just took some tweaking.

 

But the Bad Axe works out of the box other than audio... more than I can say for the DQ6.

 

you cannot fit quad core cpu's into bad axe :)

and I'm not even sure it will support new 1333MHz bus core 2 duo CPU's

For one, it doesn't have the power bug... where sometimes, you'll turn it on, it will power up, then power down, then power back up again. VERY bad for your power supply. And I got the same overclock on my Bad Axe I did with the DQ6... just took some tweaking.

 

But the Bad Axe works out of the box other than audio... more than I can say for the DQ6.

 

 

The only problem is the power bug i forgot about that, my DS3 doesn't have any issues whatsoever

 

installing on the DS3/DQ6 is dead simple nowdays... only have to patch the audio

The only problem is the power bug i forgot about that, my DS3 doesn't have any issues whatsoever

 

installing on the DS3/DQ6 is dead simple nowdays... only have to patch the audio

 

Does anyone know of a reputable place still selling this board? It appears to have been discontinued and out of stock everywhere. :(

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I have just downloaded Mac OS ver uphuck 10.4.9 Install DVD v1.4i. How to install MacOS in my PC. This ver isnot same as 10.4.8

i had alot of trouble installing on this board however, after fixing the bios up it works a treat.

i have this board fully functional. used the JAS 10.4.8v1 final dvd.i setup on SATA drives. installed on an ide (master) pioneer dvd-rw drive. Yes you can install with an ide drive on the ide port.

plug your drives into the ich8 ports (orange)

set your bios

enter intergrated peripherals

switch raid/achi mode to "AHCI"

enable all the next choices until legacy usb support.

enable onboard sata

switch sata/ide control to "IDE"

..............

--> not work for me.

 

 

I am using GA-965P-DQ6 rev 3.3

You might as well get this. It now has full support with audio and networking working. OK ICH9 is no faster than ICH8 in OSX at the moment, but this board has great cooling for the chip sets. I have both boards so have done direct comparisons.

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