GA-Z68XP-UD3

[rjohnson82]

I have been following the board for a while now and I am finally ready to start building...I'm gonna buy the parts one at a time (financial reasons) and first I'ma start with just getting mac osx from apple.com....

the main question is has anyone used the Gigabyte z68xp-ud3 board with success? I'm going to keep searching for it, just thought I'd ask also. Thank you.

 

[rjohnson82]

I know i'm a newbie and i hope that I am sticking to forum etiquette. I'm using the other user builds as a guide for my mobo and graphics card but many of the boards that others are choosing. I need a good board with firewire on it and it seemed this board was one of the closes potentially compatible ones on newegg.com. Any feedback yet?

 

[samisnake]

yeh that board will work.
theres also a dsdt for that board in the database.

you dont need a specific guide for that board, just use a guide for a similar board.

 

[rjohnson82]

thank you. i'm on new egg right now finalizing my wish list for my first hackintosh build! Trying to keep it under $800 as best as i can

 

[samisnake]

little tip- buy all the parts in one go rather than one at a time.

parts can arrive doa, and you wont know about it until your build is complete.
prices fluctuate, newer/cheaper parts might have come out etc.

 

[rjohnson82]

that's a good point. crap! lol...would there be any parts that you would suggest that i could buy separately? I just hate that huge hit from one check ya know!

little tip- buy all the parts in one go rather than one at a time.

parts can arrive doa, and you wont know about it until your build is complete.
prices fluctuate, newer/cheaper parts might have come out etc.

 

[samisnake]

case, psu, dvd drive are the main ones you could get separately.

if you wanted to add something else to that little list, you could add ram.
ram, depending on manufacturer, has a lifetime warranty so if anything is wrong with it, it wont be a hassle to get it replaced.
its also dirt cheap atm.