Any fully compatible motherboard with 775 socket and DDR2?

[Yoru]

My MBP died a week ago, and now I need an OS X system for working, so I was thinking on building a Sandy Bridge system, but it seems that make a stable one will take for long... I have a pc with the following configuration:

Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0
EVGA 780i Motherboard
OCZ 2Gb DDR2 RAM
Asus 8800 GTX
OCZ 950W PSU

I know that tonymac86's method only works on boards with Intel's chipset, so my 780i board won't work. I was thinking that until making a SB stable system is possible, maybe I can make a compatible system changing the 780i. Is there any board in the market with 775 socket and DDR2 that is fully compatible with tonymacx86 method?

Thanks in advance

 

[Yoru]

I have found that one in a store, it will fully work?

http://www.giga-byte.es/products/mb/spe ... 3l_33.html

 

[MacUser2525]

I have found that one in a store, it will fully work?

http://www.giga-byte.es/products/mb/spe ... 3l_33.html

That looks like bare minimum specs as it has the older if I recall it corrected first supported by Apple ICH7 chipset on it. You really want something with a P35/45 chipset preferably the 45. Since I am thinking you will do the easybeast those P35/45 chipset boards are your best bet.

 

[Yoru]

I have found that one in a store, it will fully work?

http://www.giga-byte.es/products/mb/spe ... 3l_33.html

That looks like bare minimum specs as it has the older if I recall it corrected first supported by Apple ICH7 chipset on it. You really want something with a P35/45 chipset preferably the 45. Since I am thinking you will do the easybeast those P35/45 chipset boards are your best bet.

Thanks for the info, but I have a problem, it seems that find a Gigabyte P35/P45 board in my country is something near to impossible, all of them are G41. I have found this P45 from Asus:

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=U ... templete=2

But I don't know if the SATA, Ethernet and audio controllers work because they are not Realtek. Any thoughts?

EDIT: I have found this one from Asrock very cheap, anybody knows if VIA® VT1708S works? both cards have it

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P45DE3

 

[Akubichan]

Hi! Sorry to hear about your computer dying. It would depend a lot on what you need your computer do; but since you are eventually going to build a Sandy Bridge Hackintosh, you might not need a high-spec motherboard right now - just something that works to cover your needs in the meantime.

In that case, I happen to think that your initial choice of GA-EP41-UD3L is a good one. There is a listing of a successful build using this board in OSX86's Hardware Compatibility List (see under HCL 10.6.5 - Gigabyte) and the LAN and the audio chipsets are those covered by the iBoot+Multibeast package. I've built a hackintosh using a same-vintage CPU as yours and an even humbler G31 motherboard, and it works well for basic tasks.

Of course, since I don't own a GA-EP41-UD3L, I can't say for sure it works. But if what you need is a board that just works, without high expectations, this looks like a safe bet.

 

[Yoru]

Hi! Sorry to hear about your computer dying. It would depend a lot on what you need your computer do; but since you are eventually going to build a Sandy Bridge Hackintosh, you might not need a high-spec motherboard right now - just something that works to cover your needs in the meantime.

In that case, I happen to think that your initial choice of GA-EP41-UD3L is a good one. There is a listing of a successful build using this board in OSX86's Hardware Compatibility List (see under HCL 10.6.5 - Gigabyte) and the LAN and the audio chipsets are those covered by the iBoot+Multibeast package. I've built a hackintosh using a same-vintage CPU as yours and an even humbler G31 motherboard, and it works well for basic tasks.

Of course, since I don't own a GA-EP41-UD3L, I can't say for sure it works. But if what you need is a board that just works, without high expectations, this looks like a safe bet.

That is exactly what I am looking for, a system that works ok in OS X with the rest of the components I have, and for the less money possible.

I was thinking the same, that the Gigabyte board was the safe bet, but since it is G41 and not P35/P45 I am afraid that the installation would take me too much tweaking (I have a some experience with OSx86 but I am not a super advanced user), and I need the system asap for working.

 

[Akubichan]

Again, I can't vouch for a G41 motherboard; but with my G31 motherboard the iBoot+Multibeast installation (Easybeast) was amazingly simple - just as Tony describes it in the instruction page here. I did have to try a few things for audio - the chipset, ALC883, is not among the explicitly listed - before figuring out that VoodooHDA worked. The only thing I had to do beyond Multibeast was to install a kernel extension for a LAN chip that was not covered by it. For GA-EP41-UD3L these shouldn't be issues. G41 uses the same ICH7 southbridge as G31 (the only differences, I understand, are larger maximum memory and PCIe 2.0) so I would be a bit surprised if much more tweaking was needed.

 

[Lupeto]

A G41M-ES2L would work a treat for you.

I'd recommend ridgel1ne's tutorial/post-installer, but it seems that his site is down

Here is the google cache of his tutorial, though for some reason it is black text on black background, so highlight the text to see it:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... -a&strip=1

Basically, it is much the same as iBoot/Multibeast, though:

- use EmpireEFI instead of iBoot: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yimizgizuzz
- use ridgel1ne's post-installer instead of multibeast. I've attached the post-installer, which includes the correct DSDT for the G41M motherboard.

For audio and ethernet, use the files/steps from the following guide:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... 09359&st=0

 

[Wayang-NT]

see my signature below .... it's ICH10, ALC888 and RTL81xx ...

 

[Yoru]

Wow thank you all guys! Specially @Lupeto, you convinced me to go with Gigabyte's board. I will order it today, so I will post my results along this week.

Thanks again to all!

EDIT: Board ordered!