gilead Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Does anyone know of a compatible mATX motherboard they want to recommend to me for use in my hackintosh. If not, I will start looking myself this Sunday or maybe Friday morning. Compatibility is important for me. However, I do not mind patching for sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feyeleanor Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Does anyone know of a compatible mATX motherboard they want to recommend to me for use in my hackintosh. If not, I will start looking myself this Sunday or maybe Friday morning. Compatibility is important for me. However, I do not mind patching for sound. The ASRock Conroe 945-G is a very good board and works a treat with Tiger, although I recall having to edit the audio kext. There's lots of help here on the forums for this particular board and I'd highly recommend it. I also have a newer Intel DQ965GF which I've played with Leopard Kalyway 5.1 on. The onboard Ethernet doesn't work and I've not tried the X3100 as I installed with a GeForce 7600. I haven't tested sound etc. as I've not had time but it looks promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilsonb Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Yes, I had this same question...I have not been able to get it working on my current system.(Specs listed in signature) Also what highend recommended Video? Is there a Recommended ASUS mother board? (Im not familiar with ASrock, do they use a good bios (Over clock)? Using what iso? Thanks so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspirina750 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Asus P5K-VM works well! You´ll need this http://rapidshare.com/files/84880968/IONet...y.kext.zip.html for the lan and TM and another kext that I don´t have right now for the audio, but it works well. There´s a nice review over Anandtech or Tom´s for the overclocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilsonb Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 The Asus looks good... what CPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspirina750 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Q6600 with 4gb ram and an Asus EN8600GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantis79 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Asrock Conroe 1333 HD V2 or whatever. Worked out of the box, you will need though drivers for the sound. Everything else works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilead Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Thank you. The ASRock looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airtraxxx Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I have a Gigabyte 945gcmx-s2 and it works really well with leopard using pc_efi_8 from Netkas. Lan worked out the box and graphics worked out the box. The only thing that needed patching was onboard sound. I used the alc888 drivers and they work great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantis79 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hi, just a quick note. The Asrock works great but you might need to downgrade the BIOS otherwise it stops at a cryptic message. If yours will not load just downgrade the BIOS to 1.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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