Midani Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Im building a computer soon and it will be running OSx86 a lot of the time. What motherboard should i buy? of course i am going to buy an intel one. Let me know which one is the best. It has to have SLI as i will eventually use SLI on the windows part of the computer. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinstar77 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Do what I did. Figure out how much your willing to spend tailored to what you want to do with it and check the HCL in the wiki here. There's plenty of threads on this already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midani Posted November 1, 2007 Author Share Posted November 1, 2007 I would get an apple. But getting one to configurations i want will go over 2000. Plus i want to be able to update things such as GFX card, Processor and things like that. Macs dont allow me to do that. Plus i want to run XP perfectly and it should because all the components are PC components. As for the motherboard. Just let me know what is the best working intel motherboard with SLI. I dont really have a budget for the motherboard as it is the most important component. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeopard2 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I happened to get a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 and with the kexts for the ALC889a added after install of the flat image of BrazilMac, everything works well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midani Posted November 1, 2007 Author Share Posted November 1, 2007 That wiki is not being updated too much. Many of the boards i am looking at are not on there. 10.4.8 is the highest with a decent list, im looking to install 10.4.10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinstar77 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I would get an apple. But getting one to configurations i want will go over 2000. Plus i want to be able to update things such as GFX card, Processor and things like that. Macs dont allow me to do that. Plus i want to run XP perfectly and it should because all the components are PC components. As for the motherboard. Just let me know what is the best working intel motherboard with SLI. I dont really have a budget for the motherboard as it is the most important component. Thanks! That's not true. You can update the proc and gfx card in a mac just like any other computer same goes for the hd ram etc. Well everything but the mobo , and they run xp perfectly well in bootcamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliquis Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Also when you start to upgrade stuff you often find yourself more or less upgrading it all anyway, and since macs "has no games" more or less you don't need the latest and greatest gfx card and since Apple know what machines they have released they make sure that atleast the last years models can run the new version of the OS. So if you buy say an iMac just update it all when you need something better, it has a decent resell value or you could use it as a spare machine, which is what I would probably have wanted to do with an old PC instead of updating it anyway. (And you could buy a laptop every second time and a desktop the other time and you will have a reason to keep both ;D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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