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The Merged Hackintosh Thread
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Caveman, on the Project OSX86, most of the motherboards listed are old and hard to find. How does one check out the compatibility of the newer motherboards for the Hackintosh project?
My original Hackintosh is working great, but I want to build another one.
I think your best bet is to search the insanelymac web site for the boards you're interested in. I'm waiting for a micro-ATX 775 with the NVidia 9400 chipset and optical audio out. Then I'll be building a second one, too.
If I didn't have my iMac I'd love to build a quad core beast. I've found I can have a beautifully running machine for a grand that is twice as powerful in all regards as my iMac.
youd want it to be pretty decent, my 3ghz hackintosh performs nowhere near as good as my 2.8ghz imac beast
Is that mobo available as a desktop and at what cost?
What about a video driver?
Are there video drivers for the integrated 4500 video for Hackintosh yet?
GA-P45-DS3R I have it works great pretty much everything but the sound works out of the box as they say and if wanting Time Machine to work you need a fixed IONetworkingFamily for that there are only cosmetic patches needed for everything else aside from video cards obviously.
I was hoping for the cheaper 'L' variants. I'll just wait for some discounts on them after i7 launch. NewEgg is running a mail-in rebate as well.
The same chipset aside from the audio is used on them so it will be the same idea just a different patch needed for it.
They are equally compatible you just need a different patch for the audio the main thing with the R model is you get working firewire ports and an extra nic which like me you will probably never use and the audio is supposed to be improved but with a Hack only getting 2.1 sound it really is no difference for us, I got mine because I needed the firewire for my Griffin FireWave to have 5.1 sound.
I do like my FireWire port but 2.1 audio is fine for me. Thanks for clearing that up.
I might just go with the L then since I'm looking for something cheap. My primary goal is just to replace my Gigabyte G31 board.
well here's what i used for reference. maybe it will help you out
for boot-132 (method i recommend as you use a retail dvd and get a clean install)
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113288
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=114834
other guides (using kalyway or whatnot)
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=84344
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83689
trouble shooting
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=123697
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=121805&st=100
How does your Gigabyte G31 board work for you? I have been considering getting one like that. The integrated graphics are OK for me. What patches did you need?
From what i remember the 9300 is just a 9400 with a slower graphics card. Check out the reviews for the chipset on google.
I'm not using it for a hackintosh. It works just fine as a cheap overclocking board though with my Q6600.
The 9300 is just a slower clocked 9400.
I'll take a look at this deal.
The price is now $109. Must have gone up. I checked the OSX86 HCL, but there is very little about it. Sounds like a good mobo. If I knew more about the compatibility, I would probably get it. What GPU card would work best? I do not need more than 256MB, probably not that much.