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I've been a long-time reader of these boards, and Multibeast made creating my first Hackintosh easy. Now I'm happy to move toward an upgrade as we'll be having a garage sale in a month. I don't have a lot of spare time due to Medical School, so I don't want to have to mess around getting things to work, though small troubleshooting is OK. My other prerequisite is that this is about as fast as I can get without the hassle.
Build:
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz Hopefully OC'd to 4.4
Asus P8Z68-V PRO
GIGABYTE GV-R687SO-1GD Radeon HD 6870
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB)
Question Onslaught (any answers would help - I'll add them in quotes):
I've tried to do my due diligence in finding these answers first. Before I go out an buy these computer parts, I would like to know what I'm up against.
Thanks in advance.
Edit 1:
Found another forum post with a person working through many of the same components. Still would appreciate help answering questions.
Build:
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz Hopefully OC'd to 4.4
Asus P8Z68-V PRO
GIGABYTE GV-R687SO-1GD Radeon HD 6870
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB)
Question Onslaught (any answers would help - I'll add them in quotes):
- What custom settings would I need to use if I were to use a retail DVD, Multibeast, and iBoot (+ anything else?)?
I'm not sure about the Z68 boards, but it looks like the P67 boards work pretty flawlessly with the new Chimera 1.4. - Would the Graphics card require anything other than GraphicsEnabler=no?[/*:m:2hi57vvx]
- Will all the outputs on that Graphics card work by default?[/*:m:2hi57vvx]
- What's the newest info about getting USB3 on the Asus motherboard to work? Easy?[/*:m:2hi57vvx]
- Would a Gigabyte UD4 or UD5 be more compatible with OSX in general than the Asus? (i.e. more native drivers, fewer hickups.)
I think I read something in these forums about it taking more work to get the Asus bios working. Also, Chimera and other updates seem to come out for the - I'm confused if the Gigabyte MB's do or do not support Quick Sync in OSX with things like FaceTime HD. Asus MB's?
It appears that the energy-saving, Video card-switch Lucidlogix Virtu support is not available in the UD5. This feature is also currently not supported by OSX as they use a different method for graphics switching. However, the early implementation of a Z68 motherboard in the iMacs might lead to porting of the drivers required to do it that way. Regardless, it will not work with the Gigabyte board.
Source: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/ ... ard/1274/8
As PCSTATS mentioned, the GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 motherboard does not have any onboard video ports, so integrated graphics and things like Intel Quick Sync cannot be used.
Source: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2594
FaceTime HD supports Quick Sync on Apple's Sandy Bridge Macs. Source:Anandtech. I can only imagine that the next updates of iLife and Final Cut Pro will take advantage of it too. - Any other MB's with >4 DIMM's?
Looks like the Z68 chipset might be limited to 32GB of RAM. I'm still not sure if this is a 4 slot limit (with 8GB RAM) or if it is 32GB no matter how many slots. - Anyone know of any RAID 0 SATA III enclosures that could house two Vertex 3's?
I contacted OWC to see if they have any equivalent options (their Sandforce Chipset SSD performance is identical to the Vertex 3, and they said they do not currently have something like this.
I've tried to do my due diligence in finding these answers first. Before I go out an buy these computer parts, I would like to know what I'm up against.
Thanks in advance.
Edit 1:
Found another forum post with a person working through many of the same components. Still would appreciate help answering questions.