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  1. Lerxst

    Micro ATX board suggestions for 1155 socket

    I have a Z68MX-UD2H-B3 that I have been using for a while now and its worked fine but when I upgraded my processor to the i7 3770k I found out I can't take advantage of the unlocked chip due to Gigabytes limited multiplayer (locked at 39). YEs I know I can upgrade the boards bios to UEFI but its...
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    GTX 570 to GTX 660 Ti - Transition help needed please!!

    The title pretty much says it all. I have a CustoMac running 10.8 quite nicely but its time to upgrade the graphics card from an EVGA GTX 570 to a Gigabyte 660Ti. The 660Ti is in and I can boot up in native / default resolution. I get the spinning color wheel a lot. Its painfully slow and...
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    iMac vs MacPro-GTX570 Performance

    I recently made a donation for the Custom Beast for my Gigabyte GA-Z68M-UD2-B3, Intel Core i7 2600K and EVGA GTX570. Prior to this I had written a guide for this card that is located here: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=29971 At one point I was seeing benchmarks with Novabench were 2182. (see page 4 of...
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    Easy way - EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD - ID: 0x108610 - 10.7.2

    This is the beginning of a new simplified guide to get these cards working in 10.7.2. Here is my new system: Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-Ud2H-B3 Intel Core i7 2600K Seagate 2TB Hard Drive 8GB of GSkill Ripjaw 1600 DDR3 Ram EVGA GeForce GTX 570 Antec Eathwatts 650 Apple G5 PowerMac Custom Case In...
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    Unibeast / GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 / HD3000 / Whitescreen

    My build includes the following: GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 Intel Core i7 2600K Antec Earthwatts 650 8GB G-Skill Ripjaw 1600 DDR3 Ram 1TB Seagate HD I have done the install of 10.7.2 using the unibeast method and installed the recommended items from Multibeast 4.1 according to this thread but when I boot...
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    Smart Response on Dual boot systems

    I just purchased one of the new Gigabyte Z68 motherboards that supports Smart Response Technology. As far as I know Smart Response is not supported in OSX but I'm wondering if I can use it on the windows half of my dual boot system or will this create some sort of conflict. Bottom line I'd...
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    Chimera 1.5.2 vs Chameleon-2.1svn-r1478

    I am working on getting my EVGA Nvidia Geforce GTX570 (device id 1086) to work fully in Lion. That thread is here:http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=29971 I'm not sure its a bug but for some reason I get OpenGL under Chameleon and not under Chimera. Cinebench will run the OpenGL...
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    Lion Install over 10.6.8 with GTX570

    Seems I have created a little problem. I have a working version of Lion installed over my working, former copy of 10.6.8. This went relatively smoothly because at the time I had supported graphics card (ATI 5850). I was able to move to a GXT570 but its not fully functional yet (No QE and no...
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    EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD - ID: 0x108610 - Guide

    I am setting up this thread to focus solely on the EVGA GTX 570 cards with the following device ID: 0x108610. Please do not post questions related to other cards in this thread. The goal is to get a fully working EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD which includes: 1.Card Properly Identified 2. Full...
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    Lion - Gigaybte GA-P55M-UD2 - Restore Audio

    I have a Gigaybte GA-P55M-UD2 with a Core i7 870, MSI ATI 5850 and 4 GB of OCZ 1600 memory. The Upgrade to Lion went fine but I need to restore audio and I can't determine what method is the best / most current and the compatible with !0.7. Under 10.6.7 I was using rollback method I think...
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    10.7 Lion supported graphic cards??

    With Lion (10.7) released can someone please update us on what graphics cards are now supported? I have heard rumors that Geforce 5XX cards would be. I'd like to upgrade my MSI 5850 but I'm not sure what my options are or if an upgrade makes sense until there is good support for either the AMD...
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    Memory Voltage - dont void your Intel warrantee

    After my experience with my P55M-UD2 system which led to me burning up the i7 860 processor I felt it was important to tell system builders not to overclock their ram. If you do your potientally voiding the Intel warrantee. The i7 chips have built in memory controllers and if you run memory at...
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    Overclocking Core i7 / Gigabyte P55M-UD2

    I am considering overclocking my dual boot ( OSX / Win 7) Core i7 , Gigabyte UD2, ATI MSI 5850. My first consideration is keeping my OSX compatibility. As I understand it if you overclock the processor you will need to turn of speedstep. How does this effect the overall performance of the...
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    ATI 58XX, 64bit with 10.6.5

    I have been successfully running a MSI R5850 Twin Frozr in my Intel Core i7 Hacintosh using the Vervet graphics enabler and the 32bit Graphics Enabler=No Boot plist. As I understood it the 10.6.5 update brought some additional support for 58xx cards. Is there a 64bit solution that doesnt...
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    Disk Error resulted in buggered system partition

    I had a perfectly running system that I use every day until at bootup tonight I suffered a crash / freeze during the legacy (not verbose) bootup process. After failing to restart several time, including a verbose startup that stopped at Something refering to slot #1, I booted into my backup...
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    Overclocking i7 860 and Easy Tune

    I checked my system performance at stock settings and got a geekbench 64 bit score of around 9400. Then I booted into Windows 7..ran Easy Tune ( The Gigabyte tool that provides a quick method of overclocking). I upped my speed to 2.91 Ghz..booted back into Snow Leopard and Ran Geekbench again...
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    Fully working video cards

    I am opening this post as list of FULLY working video cards. I hope its valuable enough to be a stickie for those contemplating a new build or an upgrade. If you have a fully working card please post below and I will add it to the list. If you have a link to an install guide please list that...
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    UD2 with F11 Bios Kernel Panic

    So I updated my bios from F9 to F11 and downloaded the specific DSDT for my motherboard... but at reboot I am getting kernel panics. What am I missing?
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    Atom Processor support on 10.6.2/3/4

    I have a good working Asus Eee Pc Netbook running 10.6.1. Apple cut off the support of Intel Atom processors after 10.6.1 I have ready that NetBookInstaller can patch the kernel at bootup so that we netbook users can update to 10.6.2/3/4. Does anyone have any experience with this? I could...
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    UD2/ 10.6.4 / F10 bios and rising sensor temps

    Several users have reported higher temps on the Gigabyte UD2 motherboard after updating to the the F10 bios, 10.6.4. I found the following posts: I think we could use some focused help with this. Once I have rolled up to 10.6.4 is it possible to go back to the F8 bios and DSDT?
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