There are so many options...

[MeeG]

Hey everyone this is my first post. I would like to put a pc together to run 10.4.3 but the one dilema I am having is deciding on a mother board. I'm looking at the Intel D945GTPLKR and the Intel D915GUX or maybe the Asus P5GV-MX. Anybody have any recomendations for motherboards, any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[marliwahoo]

If you want the most compatible boards the intel 915gux and the 945gtplkr are the ticket. I would go with the 945gtplkr eventhough I have the 915gux. You can get cheeper boards - but the intel on board graphics work very well. They have firewire - a must for me. The 945 can use faster memory, has a faster bus (I think), has a raid controller (not supported in osx) , it has tpm & efi (dont know if this will ever be supported or will need to be supported - but it is there)

 

Some of the Asus boards have a better ability to overclock but I couldn't find a Asus (945 g based) board with firewire, 1000 ethernet and Intel on board graphics. If there is an Asus board like that - I'd like to know. The difference in price for any of these isn't much ($20-30). I would go with the best one - the 945gtplkr.

 

This is the way to go. Get the add2 card for dual moniters.

http://www.win2osx.net/forum/showthread.ph...dual+hackintosh

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=7393&st=20

[Dr. Fresh]

First post here too. I was looking at having an Asus board myself that had onboard firewire, but found it to be a little pricey. The P5GDC-V Deluxe would be the board you are looking for. It does everything. I ended up settling with a P5GV-MX/Prescott 630. I wanted a board that had support for 4 DDR dimms (wanted to use my existing 1GB DDR333),GMA 900 and it had to have overclocking features. Firewire cards are cheap.

[Trico]

Hi,

 

First post from Portugal

I've just installed 10.4.4 (Maxxuss Patch) on my new P5GV-MX with Celeron D 336 2.8. Everything works just fine. Only problem was with PS2 keyboard, had to use a USB one. I´m a Mac user, so I just picked up an old keyboard from my previous Mac. This combo is pretty fast with my configuration (1GB Ram). I have a iMac Dual Core 1.8 with 2GB Ram and I can't tell the difference using common tasks like using Safari and the built in apps.

 

Trico