- Joined
- Feb 21, 2011
- Messages
- 1,256
- Motherboard
- GA-Z77X-UP5-TH
- CPU
- i7-3770K
- Graphics
- GTX 650
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
First off I just want to say how much help this community has always been. If it hadn't of been for people like samisnake, thelostswede, or macman, I don't think I would have gotten this computer to be as stable as it is.
Alas, there is always something that holds up a perfect Custom Mac. On this current machine it is updates and Thunderbolt. I installed 10.7 and cannot update to 10.7.5 or any other versions of Lion. I tried downloading direct from Apple's website and doing the Software Update method. Still no can do. Machine is stuck on 10.7 but the good news is that everything works marvelously. Sleep, ReStart, USB3, etc....
Now, on to Thunderbolt. I did research on here and using Google and it seems as if it will be a NO GO on ever getting that item to be recognized by Mac OSX on this board. So, I will ask if anyone has found any hope of getting it to work or the versions of it from makers like MSI, ASRock, etc... to work.
This board seems like a good board to use for a build as it has many nice features and has a lot of expansion but if we can't get it to be updatable or fully utilize the hardware then we may as well return the board and get another motherboard from of course Gigabyte.
Hardware in use.
Asus P8Z77V-Pro/Thunderbolt
Core i5-2500K
Kingston Value 1333Mhz RAM for install
Samsung 830 256GB SSD
Let me know if any other hardware information is needed and thanks to anyone for their help.
Alas, there is always something that holds up a perfect Custom Mac. On this current machine it is updates and Thunderbolt. I installed 10.7 and cannot update to 10.7.5 or any other versions of Lion. I tried downloading direct from Apple's website and doing the Software Update method. Still no can do. Machine is stuck on 10.7 but the good news is that everything works marvelously. Sleep, ReStart, USB3, etc....
Now, on to Thunderbolt. I did research on here and using Google and it seems as if it will be a NO GO on ever getting that item to be recognized by Mac OSX on this board. So, I will ask if anyone has found any hope of getting it to work or the versions of it from makers like MSI, ASRock, etc... to work.
This board seems like a good board to use for a build as it has many nice features and has a lot of expansion but if we can't get it to be updatable or fully utilize the hardware then we may as well return the board and get another motherboard from of course Gigabyte.
Hardware in use.
Asus P8Z77V-Pro/Thunderbolt
Core i5-2500K
Kingston Value 1333Mhz RAM for install
Samsung 830 256GB SSD
Let me know if any other hardware information is needed and thanks to anyone for their help.