~pcwiz Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I am reconsidering the GA-P35-DS3P. However, I need straight answers: DOES IT WORK FULLY WITH LEOPARD AND EFI OR NOT? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Hey I am going to build a computer with that exact mobo soon. I am also curious whether it works completely.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-510657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 In my opinion its one of the best boards at the moment for OSX. Only tested with tiger, but there are people running leo on it. You need a patch for audio and network, and not all people had sleep work, but i think its the best "nearly"-mac possible. See my sig. you can run up to 9 harddrives and a dvd-rw with this board without a hassle. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-510680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 18, 2007 Author Share Posted November 18, 2007 I don't think I will get this board. The Intel D975XBX2 Bad Axe 2 motherboard is the best MoBo for OS X with 100% compatibility. Its a better value. The GA-P35-DS3P costs around $200 and the Bad Axe 2 costs $240 so thats what I'm going for. Apparently the DS3P's SATA will only run in AHCI mode (and even then on certain connectors) and the IDE doesn't work at all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-510685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I don't think I will get this board. The Intel D975XBX2 Bad Axe 2 motherboard is the best MoBo for OS X with 100% compatibility. Its a better value. The GA-P35-DS3P costs around $200 and the Bad Axe 2 costs $240 so thats what I'm going for. Apparently the DS3P's SATA will only run in AHCI mode (and even then on certain connectors) and the IDE doesn't work at all. Newegg has it for $150 with shipping. what does AHCI mode mean? a wikipedia look didn't show anything bad .... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-511146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 The AHCI Mode is very fast and o.k.. there was a workaround posted for getting it to work natively - but with the loss of some of the S-ATA Ports and NO speed gain. So whats the Problem with AHCI??? IDE is working GREAT. I have a IDE DVD Burner and a IDE Harddisk on both my machines and they work without a problem. The Bad Axe 2 is a great board, but i sold mine for a DS3P cause the Gigabyte board works better for me. I need many Harddrives internally and the Gigabyte allows me to use 8 S-ATA while the BadAxe only works well with 4. But. its a great board, too. For me, the Gigabyte is better (and it will work with the new CPUs whcih will come in a few months). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-511224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 BJmoose has a Bad Axe 2 with 8 SATA drives. Anyway, I 'm going with Bad Axe 2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-511958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onizuka Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Hi I have been using this motherboard for two months now with OS X, initially JaS 10.4.8 and now 10.5 with BrazilMac's patch. Everything is working fine, audio requires patching (if you can't find the files, just ask me), LAN works out of the box on Leopard but needed patching on my version of Tiger. Disk performance is average in AHCI mode, the only problem is the AHCI bios which adds about ten seconds to booting time... Hope this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-512322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 @~pcwiz: I had 6 on my BadAxe and could have connected 8 BUT: The two on the normally not supported Ports created errors when transferring large amounts of data. Maybe its just a thing with my installation of OSX. Maybe its something with my speific board. but the Gigabyte was better for me. And: I didnt manage to overclock the BX2. I think i simply was too dumb. I overclocked my GA-P35 with three clicks to 3.42 GHz. That was reason enough for me to use that board. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-518296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 I'm probably not getting the bad axe 2 either. I've switched my choice to the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe. Better features, cheaper, more ports (E-SATA, built in WiFi AP) and its just as compatible with OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-518371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xavier2 Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 I have a PS3 DS3P and running Leopard 10.5.1. If you just search through the forum you'll find many users with this board without any problems at all. I have four drives, they are a mix of IDE and SATA, all work perfectly. As far as the AHCI mode versus plain IDE mode on SATA, there's no visible speed difference on any OS. I'm not sure where that rumors started off from. AHCI offers extra features such as hot plug in and out. Any SATA drives are just about the same speed of any IDE drives with the similar RPM. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-518401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 Dude P5W DH rocks...tons of features...the only thing I can complain about with the P5W is that it doesn't have FireWire built-in. But I can fix that with a simple expansion card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-518505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedrivel Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 how do you get an IDE DVD drive to work? using uphuck 10.4.9 r2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-518577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 26, 2007 Author Share Posted November 26, 2007 Correct me if I am wrong but I read somewhere that you have to use a SATA DVD drive for the DS3P Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-518625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 No, you dont have to have a s-ata dvd drive. setting the onboard controller to ide mode will let you boot from an ide dvd-rom drive. but maybe uphuck isnt the best distribution. i tested many (if not all9 distributions, and came to this: maybe using kalyway 10.4.10 with ppf 1 is doing well. it boots, it istalls. But i had some issues with my harddrives, that may or maybe not caused of this kalyway disk. but basically i have a PERFECT running machine that runs with my very first install, the good old JaS 10.4.8. It runs perfectly with the DS3 board (with minor patches to audio and LAN). So i did the following: Installed a fresh JaS 10.4.8. Upgraded to JaS 10.4.9. Upgraded to koolcals 10.4.10. Patched a bit (natit 0.1, Audio, R1000 network, editied network.plist for en0 problem with FCP 2.0, appied CS3Patch). And: Now this system seems perfect. It all depends on the components you have. No one said, that running a perfect Hackintosh is easy... BTW.: The ASUS P5W DH seems very fine. but i wont go with the old 975X Chipset, cause it will not be compatible with the forcoming new cpus. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-518993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 26, 2007 Author Share Posted November 26, 2007 Yeah I'll research some more and see what I can find...I might actually go with the GA-P35-DS3P... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-519665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skitals Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L which should be similar, but no raid. I've got 4 yellow SATA ports. Up until now I've been using just one SATA drive, one PATA drive, and everything has been great. I just added two more SATA drives to SATA port 2 and 3, and now I see I can only use two of the SATA ports. Ports 3 and 4 don't work... the first time I boot with a new drive it gives me the following message: Disk Insertion The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. I know both drives are fine... just whichever drive I hook up to port 3 or 4 gives me this message. I have SATA AHCI enabled, and when the AHCI bios loads, I see all three of my drives listed properly. Is there a way to get port 3 and 4 working? I had assumed all this time they should work since I was under the impression they were all controlled by the same sata controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-519801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 27, 2007 Author Share Posted November 27, 2007 I've decided I'm going with the DS3P, only because of the new P35 chipset. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-519843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quarterpounder Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Hi all... I managed to install ToH 10.5 on my Gigabyte P35DS3-P and applying the included patch. After Brazilpatch (thank you very much for this!) I can boot w/o -legacy, my cpu is correctly identified as core2duo and I have reenabled onboard SATA(AHCI) and IDE. For I have only one DVD-RW attched to IDE I can only say this one runs. My Sapphire HD2600XT is feeded w drivers from another thread, at least with DVI->VGA adaptor no more gfx-garbish, QE enabled. OK, but I still network tells it's mac but does not recognize the connected ethernet cable... I will now try changing the settings in winxp, but I'd like to know exactly your solution... Same with onboard sound... I dl alc889a.zip but found I already have this files even newer versions... but no sound. I'd really appreciate specific information on lan and sound... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-520413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyasih Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Could someone tell me how to get the sound to work, I tried the ALC889a zip files and none worked. Also, my network computers aren't showing up on Leopard. I already enabled the accounts, changed the workgroup and checked the firewall. I intstalled using flat image. TIA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-520517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 28, 2007 Author Share Posted November 28, 2007 Actually (sorry) I changed my mind once AGAIN and I'm going with the Bad Axe 2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-520957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nargot Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 mobo works 99% only can't run >3gb ram when using the JMicron controller you can eve run two pci-e gfx cards at once, well it works for me. Current specs q6600 pio-212 sata dvd-rw pio-111 ide dvd-rw 5x sata hdd 1x ide hdd 3 gb ddr2 800 7900GS - dvi monitor 7600GT - dvi monitor uptime > 30 days easily no issues at all Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-521113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 why cant you run >3 Gb RAM??? I have two of those DS3P borads running with 4 GB RAM and 6 / 7 Harddisks stable. In my opinion it ALWAYS depends on whicht OSX distri you used to install. For me the percfect ways is/was : JaS 10.4.8, upgraded to Kalyway 10.4.10 (maybe with the way through JaS 10.4.9). This works. Most if not all anomalies dont depend on the mainboard but on the OSX you installed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-522316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodik Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 hey, can anyone who's running leopard on P35-DS3P post his drivers? I`ve installed leopard on it but network and audio isn't working Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-522491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMF Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 For LAN drivers you have two choices - go to the realtek site and download the OS X driver or go to sourceforge and dowload the R1000 driver (you can google for r1000 sourceforge mac os x). I prefer the realtek one for no other reason than it's from the manufacturer but both work in Tiger and Leo. SMF Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72117-gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3p/#findComment-523305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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