night_rider Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 First attempt was a quick one as my prior motherboard died. I bought ... mboard : Biostar TForce TF7050 n-bridge : GeForce 7050PV s-bridge : NForce 630a cpu : AMD 64 X2 4000+ gpu : eVGA GeForce 7900GS ram : 2gb DDR2 800 hd : 500gb Seagate 7200.10 Got my rig back up and running very well but never made any headway with MacOSX having all SATA hard drives. With the holidays upon us I want to pull the Biostar mboard and AMD 64 X2 for an HTPC and go with a more compatible mboard and cpu for my rig and to dual boot Leopard. I really need some help on what to get. I'm looking for a budget rig that will run Leopard with a realtively straightforward install. I thought that meant a P35 n-bridge but Lifehacker did a build using the 975X n-bridge stating it was most compatible. $180 for a mboard is steep for my wallet. What motherboard would you recommend for this config? cpu : Intel Core2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz gpu : eVGA GeForce 7900GS ram : 4 gb DDR2 800 (enough for Parallel?) disc : WD 500gb Sata internal mboard : ? Possibilities.... Open Box: GIGABYTE GA-P35C-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard $115.00 Open Box: ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard $129.00 I could really use some help narrowing my choices. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?...82E16813128048R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73956-need-help-hackintosh-build/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrizz Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 or you can use the board in my sig i got it for $60 shipped, but i think the osx86 ppl heard it was an easy mobo to get running, since there are none in stock lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73956-need-help-hackintosh-build/#findComment-522818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
night_rider Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 I looked at many boards with the Intel 945 northbridge but I did not want to be limited to 2gb. I want to push windows to 4gb or more understanding that it may require upgrading to a 64 bit version of XP but I really wanted 4gb for Mac OSX in order to run Parallels. Anyone else have ideas for a good motherboard? P35? 975X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73956-need-help-hackintosh-build/#findComment-522962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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