Cheap LGA775 board?

[drmyk]

Hey, all.
My father has a LGA775 system with a decent processor (8500), video board, ram...
But it has a crap ECS motherboard.

Is there an inexpensive LGA775 tonymac compatible motherboard out there? If I could get a cheap one, I'd hackintosh it for him. If there isn't, I'd probably just leave it Win7 rather than trying to deal with it.

Best,
Mike

 

[powerpcg5]

DG33TL Intel.
Sleep doesn't work though (only monitor goes to sleep).
Audio doesn't work, but use an $8 USB audio plugin.
Intel NIC works using hnak kext.

 

[drmyk]

Thanks, I will look at those.
Was hoping to find a gigabyte, never had any problems with them.
Of course, I was hoping to be taller as well-you don't always get what you want, you know.

 

[djblastyfone]

Try picking up a Gigabyte GA-G41MT-D3V, if you can find one. I picked one up for an old Q6600 chip I had and it works perfectly with OSX. DDR3 RAM, non-voodoo audio, sleep & wake... everything worked practically out-of-the-box with a UniBeast install of Lion. There's even a DSDT patch file available for it if you follow samisnake's DSDT guide.

Good luck!

 

[macpeter2]

I have just build a cheap hackintosh with the Gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2PT motherboard.
Works great.

See my build description

 

[jake0604]

The intel DG33FB works with everything but sleep & IDE drives