Fatherless One Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 As the title reads what's the most Leopard compatible mATX (smaller form factor) motherboard? Thanks in advance for your input. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gigabyte 945gcmx-s2, if you want a cheaper, non-overclocking board. G33-DS3R or P5K-VM if you want a performance/oc'ing board (although they're harder to set up than the 945 based mobo) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-536833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatherless One Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 Thanks for your reply, does anyone else have a preference? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-539431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwinn555 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I'm very happy with my Asus P5L-MX motherboard. It is also 945G chip set . Everything works Tiger or Leo with the exception of the built in Ethernet. I use a cheap PCI ethernet card which works with no drivers. Ok it does need the Azalia Audio drivers which are included on the Jaz DVD for Tiger and elsewhere . It may not be the best over clocker but I was able to go from a stock CPU of 3.2 GBz to 4.1 with no problems. It also works with most any T slot (775 ) CPU including Core 2 duo. Been running for nearly a year as a hackintosh and just ordered a new Core duo CPU which should come next week. I'm guessing your rev 1.x doesn't run core 2 Duo and that is perhaps why you are looking to upgrade? Well the rev 2 of the board you have does but is as you know ATX . The one I have is of course the smaller micro atx and only has 1 ide connector and 2 RAM slots slots and different ethernet and audio chips but is other wise much the same. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-539746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacMan2007 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 ECS 945GCT-M (V1.0) LGA 775 Intel 945GC Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813135051 I have this motherboard with an E4500. Stock CPU is 2.2 gighz, however I BSEL mod and VMOD to 1.41v the CPU and motherboard recognizes it at E4500 but at 2.93 gighz. Can not overclock it any further, however, it is very stable. Everything is recognized on it, and Leopard runs beautifully. I have no complaints. If you live anywhere theres a Fry's (West Coast), sometimes they have a combo deal with this exact motherboard with the same exact cpu for ~$118 which in my mind is a steal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-540281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrizz Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Gigabyte 945gcmx-s2, if you want a cheaper, non-overclocking board. G33-DS3R or P5K-VM if you want a performance/oc'ing board (although they're harder to set up than the 945 based mobo) I second those Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-541729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
royco Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 ECS 945GCT-M (V1.0) LGA 775 Intel 945GC Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retailhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813135051 I have this motherboard with an E4500. Stock CPU is 2.2 gighz, however I BSEL mod and VMOD to 1.41v the CPU and motherboard recognizes it at E4500 but at 2.93 gighz. Can not overclock it any further, however, it is very stable. Everything is recognized on it, and Leopard runs beautifully. I have no complaints. If you live anywhere theres a Fry's (West Coast), sometimes they have a combo deal with this exact motherboard with the same exact cpu for ~$118 which in my mind is a steal. I second that. Frys has that combo almost every week. Its like getting the board for free. I run into some problems on the first one but the replacement is good, everything recognized. The Gigabyte 945gcmx-s2 is a good board and has overclocking abilities as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-550229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kratos Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 i have a GiGaByTe GA-MA69VM-S2 an everything is ok XD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-550410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tincus Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Another vote for ECS 945GCT-M, it runs Kalyway, with vanilla, Efi, GUID partitions out of the box. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-550539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtakach Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I just installed with Kalyway 10.5.1 on a GA-965GM-S2, with a GUID partition and EFI. It's been working although installing it had some issues, I got stuck during the transfer information from another mac during the set up and to get past it I HAD to have another mac hard drive to transfer info from. But it is working now, this is my father's system, I installed osx for him, I'm not sure exactly how he set it up, but he dropped an E2140 cpu supposed to be clocked at 1.6ghz, and without him even tring to overclock it all somehow the bios has always recognized it as a E6600 at 2.13ghz. Don't ask me how this happened, this chipset may be an option for you, but it may also be a better idea to go for the newer G33M model. These boards should have a performance advantage over the 945 chipset. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-557627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shing Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Alot of Gigabytes I see. I'm pretty new here but I have Leopard 10.5.1 vanilla with efi working great on a P5K-VM. There's a thread on this particular motherboard with everything you need. It was pretty simple. My particular setup is a q6600 with p5k-vm 2x2gb ram, 8800gts 512mb Triple booting Vista 64, XP, and OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-565597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff300 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I have an ECS 945GCT-M v1 and I installed Kalyway 10.5.1. Everything was detected perfectly, but I don't get any sound. Its got the ALC883 chip, I selected that driver during the install. The device shows up in Preferences, but when I play any media file I don't hear anything. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-572007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtotheZ Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 hey Jeff, google skippyretard. One of his sound packages will get you sound. i think its the first package. Make sure you check for sound on each of the sound or mic ports as sound doesn't always come out of the expected port Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-573345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatherless One Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Thanks for the inputs guys and girls, it's been appreciated very very much, also are all you people updating the OSX86 Wiki? If not please do Loads of people will benifit from your experiences. Btw I've ordered a GA-945GCMX-S2 so I'm awaiting delivery with fingers crossed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-573408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nach0 Stallion Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Im glad you guys can still get the GA-945gcmx-s2, i have been hunting all my suppliers and noone has this board anymore, its obsolete, its been replaced with the GA-945GCM-S2L, does anyone know how this board fairs with 10.5.1? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-577298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannerfm77 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 ECS 945GCT-M (V1.0) LGA 775 Intel 945GC Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retailhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813135051 I have this motherboard with an E4500. Stock CPU is 2.2 gighz, however I BSEL mod and VMOD to 1.41v the CPU and motherboard recognizes it at E4500 but at 2.93 gighz. Can not overclock it any further, however, it is very stable. Everything is recognized on it, and Leopard runs beautifully. I have no complaints. If you live anywhere theres a Fry's (West Coast), sometimes they have a combo deal with this exact motherboard with the same exact cpu for ~$118 which in my mind is a steal. Do you able to use your Power Button to bring computer to sleep? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-577602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chennhui01 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Asus P5K-VM. Sound, Sata, IDE, Lan just work. Never test with the on-board GPU as I am using X1900XT. Do you able to use your Power Button to bring computer to sleep? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-578225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriankoooo Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi, is there any better motherboard than the GA-945GCM-S2? It is support only 2GB of memory :/. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-600144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 P5LD2-VM R2.0 needs ahci , switch back to sata for windoze, kalyway sleep works GM-G33-DSR2 ,needs ahci , switch back to sata for windoze, iatkos sleep works gigabit works, for sound just use usb, graphics , nvidia cards , core 2 duo's any mobo, where you can run sata native ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-600224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. C Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 AsRock Conroe 1333 (see here ). Sleep also works, but not with power button. Quadcore-CPUs are not supported. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-600757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nach0 Stallion Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I did a test install, using a Asrock Conroe 1333 D667 board and installed onto a 250 Gig SATA HD from an IDE DVD rom drive, using Kalyway, no issues with the HD, just the usual GFX glitches and funky LAN support (works but can be slow) worked well.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-600788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriankoooo Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Thx for the reply, in Conroe the audio is not fully supported . Any other that supports 4GB of ram? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-600790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nach0 Stallion Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 it just takes a small patch to get the audio working (though i think just the speakers, not line in or anything) but im very new to all this and am unable to offer any other help, other board seem more compatible but are quite costly, $$$ is the reason I went for a $65 motherboard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76020-whats-the-most-leopard-compatible-matx-motherboard/#findComment-600793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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