josh256 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 All feedback welcome. Cheers, J. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeplover Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hey Josh, as you can see in my signature I'm running a Q6600 on the GA-P35-DS4. I used the JaS 10.4.8 SSE2/3 & PPF1/2 + update to 10.4.9 You have to install using an IDE or USB-DVD or use the patched Install-DVD. Rest of the Installation works without any problems. Gigabit Onboard-LAN works flawlessly with the RTL-Installer you can find here. Absolutely no sound. I use an external USB-Device for it. SATA and IDE are qorking. FW and all USB working. The BIOS offers everything you need to overclock. But I'm not in OC. I got a nice case for it yesterday: The ASUS TA-211 in white. Not Apple but really nice although.´ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-413445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apluss1 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 i am looking to purchase this board very very soon, so any more information would be great! i know the GA-P35-DS4 is the same chipset and pretty much the same board, but still would be good to hear if any one has actualy tried the DQ6 before i purchase it! Thanks!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-413687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh256 Posted July 23, 2007 Author Share Posted July 23, 2007 Thanks dude, What does the no ICH9-SATA in your sig mean (assuming you're running SATA drives in AHCI mode)? Also need to double check something you mentioned: "must install using IDE or USB-DVD". Is there actually a problem w/ installing from SATA-DVD or did you mean to say I must install using SATA-DVD or USB-DVD (and rather it's the onboard IDE that didn't work - which seems to be a common issue).. Thanks again.. I have a Q6600 as well and am going with GB's P965-DQ6 (as a primo hackintosh mobo) else the P35T-DQ6 (as a decent future-proof mobo). Josh Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-413835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 hmm, make sure your SATA IS in AHCI mode, it should work, SATA works out of box on my ICH9R board but it must be in AHCI mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-413838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh256 Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 yes... again I'm assuming the drives are running in SATA+AHCI mode and that all is fine so I'm curious what the sig's all about.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-414006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewintheav Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Has anybody that is using a mainboard with an ich9r controller run a benchmark test with XBench? Did you notice a really poor hardrive performance result on XBench? yes... again I'm assuming the drives are running in SATA+AHCI mode and that all is fine so I'm curious what the sig's all about.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-414566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgx Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I have the G33M-D2SR board (see sig) and after fooling around with 10.4.10 kexts yesterday, it's running awesome! Great little board and quite quick. Xbench detail below and according to SysProfiler, AHCI mode running NCQ (doubtful but I'm still tweaking..hehehe). This little hackintosh blows my 20" iMac Core Duo (1st Rev) away. BTW - the best xBench scores I could ever get on the iMac was 105.++ Results 152.34 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.10 (8R2218) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model ACPI Drive Type Maxtor 6V300F0 CPU Test 107.93 GCD Loop 243.93 12.86 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 123.03 2.92 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 85.08 2.81 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 76.45 13.31 Mops/sec Thread Test 205.46 Computation 189.22 3.83 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 224.75 9.67 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 154.84 System 132.59 Allocate 114.14 419.17 Kalloc/sec Fill 145.10 7055.15 MB/sec Copy 143.40 2961.82 MB/sec Stream 186.06 Copy 167.24 3454.23 MB/sec Scale 170.34 3519.26 MB/sec Add 208.19 4434.99 MB/sec Triad 206.38 4415.06 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 139.94 Line 125.97 8.39 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 163.93 48.94 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 155.23 12.65 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 141.13 3.56 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 122.51 7.66 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 156.94 Spinning Squares 156.94 199.08 frames/sec User Interface Test 374.70 Elements 374.70 1.72 Krefresh/sec Disk Test 109.03 Sequential 127.20 Uncached Write 129.97 79.80 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 130.87 74.05 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 118.84 34.78 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 129.94 65.30 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 95.41 Uncached Write 76.18 8.06 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 108.89 34.86 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 91.47 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 115.18 21.37 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-414610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeplover Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Hi Josh, a little explanation bout the ICH9 part of my sig.: When I put the whole thing together and first tried to boot the JaS 10.4.8 DVD in my SATA-DVDR it came up with the "still waiting for root device"-error. I played a bit with the sata modes in bios but nothing resolved it. Then I used an older dvd-drive connected to the IDE port and everything just worked fine. I also couldn't partition my harddrive connected to the orange sata ports that run through the ICH9 chipset. It only worked connecting the HD to the purple ports that use the Marvell chipset. Once OSX installed all ports work but booting only from the purple ports. Activating AHCI mode doesn't change anything regarding compatibility but results in a 10 second longer boottime so I let it on IDE-Mode. The drives throughput wasn't higher on AHCI either. But I didn't use Xbench to check that so there might be an unnoticable increase. (BTW ... where to get XBench from?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-414624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3phemeral Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 ... All this is good to know, i'll be getting a GA-P35-DS4 shortly (BTW ... where to get XBench from?) www.xbench.com/, or specifically here ? Or google.com -> search for xbench ?I'm slightly flabbergasted by this question Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-416847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeplover Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Sorry for my question ... I really NEVER was in any benchmarking of systems. I just worked with them and when things felt to slow I added some RAM oder bought a new system. Consulting google - well, guess that was to obvious or I was too lazy :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-417200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3phemeral Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Sorry for my question ... I really NEVER was in any benchmarking of systems. I just worked with them and when things felt to slow I added some RAM oder bought a new system. Consulting google - well, guess that was to obvious or I was too lazy :-) Hehe ^^ No need to appologize tho And till i got to OSX i'd hardly benchmarked anything at all... But i've seen a lot of skepticism concerning Xbench in this community, so i wouldn't rely on the results too much... I think using the results as inaccurate points of reference is OK, but nothing more than that... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57868-gigabyte-p35t-dq6-anyone/#findComment-417260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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