Which low-budget Mobo for my 1st Hackintosh ?

[TomZ]

Hi guys,

 

First of all thanks for giving a new way considering PCs

I'm a linux user for a long time and i've recently offered a beautyfull Mac Book to my beloved wife. Obviously i "played" with it and have discovered the incredible OSX ! Wow

I then decided to make my own Mac with low-budget... So here is my request : which mobo ?

 

My short list :

- Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2L

- Abit I-45C

- Asus P5GC-MX/1333

 

They all accept up to 4Go of memory (what i want) and own an intel GMA 950. Later i'll install a real PCI-Express graphic card. My CPU : Intel Pentium E2160. I want to oc the CPU (mybe up to 3ghz) so need a card that can do that (upper FSB).

Of course i'm looking for a mobo well supported under Leopard 10.5.2.

 

I found some good informations on 2 of this mobos (Giga & Asus) but nothing about the Abit one.

 

Thanks for your advices !

 

'Z

[Lactobacillus P]

Check out the HCL in the Wiki part and do your own research, that is what I can recommend you. As a Linux user you will not have any difficulties in getting it to work once you have chosen compatible hardware.

[TomZ]

I already did check the wiki. But i didn't found any information about the Abit mobo.

At the moment my choice goes to the Gigabyte but maybe the abit is a good choice too...

[Skyper]

get the Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2L one and try kalyways 10.5.1. And another advantage is that the build in GMA950 ca support CI/QE.

[TomZ]

Thx for ur answers. I just ordered the Gigabyte mobo + 2x2Go DDR2 + Pentium E2160.

I should receive all that stuff tomorrow moning ! Tomorrow evening, after my squash practice, I'll try to install my first Hackintosh and will keep you updated on.

Let's rock...