Count Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Hi, can anoyone recommend me a socket775-board in Mikro-ATX-Format? Should be running Leopard without problems, if possible. I suppose a board with an Intel-chipset would be the best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indigoimac Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I too would be interested in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrizz Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 the board I'm using works fine Gigabyte GA-945GCMX-S2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royco Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Scrizz, Seems like you scratched off everything except the GMA950. How do you like it compared to the 1950gt? did you had a problem with the drivers going to 10.5.1? Its really a head scratcher that my GMA950 and Nvidia 7900GS score about the same in Geekbench and Xbench, and to make matters worse, the cheap 945GC ECS board scores just a hairline below the mighty gigabyte 965P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polarfalke Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 @Count GA-G33M-DS2R Works fine right now. But I´m still testing. Onbaord-VGA not supported yet. More information this weekend. So far. Drako Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrizz Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 @royco: the GMA 950 was much less of a hassle to get working (i didn't have to do anything on the GMA) I don't trust xbench b/c my 9800XT, x1950gt and GMA 950 all scored about the same. If you play games the x1950gt is much more powerful but it doesn't have dual screen support; I would suggest a 1950xt or a HD2600xt, as they both have support for dual screens btw geekbench doesn't test gfx performance; it only tests cpu and memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiekiduk Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 The Asrock ConRoe945G-DVI is meant to be a perfect board. Lots of people here have it and are successfully running Leopard even with EFI. http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Mode...45G-DVI&s=n Has gigabit. Up to 1920x1200 on DVI from the GMA950 with QE. Has 4 DIMM slots for 4GB. Supports all the Core 2 Duos with up to 1066MMhz FSB. 4 USB and 4 SATA. I read some go for the newer Asrock1333-DVI/H R2.0 http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Mode...%20R2.0&s=n That one is exactly the same as the above except it supports the newer Core 2 Duos with 1333MHz FSB. If you aren't going to use the DVI out card then you might go for the either the ConRoe1333-D667 R1.0 or the ConRoe1333-D667 R2.0. Both of these boards are half the price of the DVI one above, yet they only have 2 DIMM slots (still support 4GB though). The R1.0 has 100mbit and the R2 gigabit. The 2 DIMM slot thing might have been a reasonable thing to take into account. You would save alot of cash by putting in 4x1GB instead of 2x2GB. However the 945 has a limitation that only 3.3GB of the 4GB can be recognised by OS X. So you probably are better off just putting in the 3GB. The price difference between 3x1GB and 1GB+2GB isn't such a big saving. So overall I reckon if you need the DVI card get the ConRoe945G-DVI, otherwise get the ConRoe1333-D667 R2.0 (only because its newer and easier to get hold of). Both should be £35 / $50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legendariske_harehjort Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Great thread, I was wondering the same, as I would like to update my G3 (Captain), to a more up to date machine. Could anyone comment on a good processor? Preferably one that is not running too hot, as a true mac is silent Thx, walther Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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