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Article: Early Adopter's Guide to Intel's Haswell CPUs and 8-Series Motherboards
I think this explanation around the top of this guide explains it: "We recommend these specific Gigabyte 8-series motherboards because they don't require a DSDT, and will most likely have native power management. They also have supported audio and network controllers."
Unless I've misunderstood something, you're not using power management at all with your Intel DP43TF board, so having it is unimportant to you. But many of us want power management, and Gigabyte UEFI motherboards have been consistently the easiest to deal with in order top get a feature that's pretty much taken for granted on real Macs.
Now with that said, I eagerly await further testing results to see if my next Hackintosh will be a Haswell based build or if the new Mac Pro will be worth it.
I really do not understand, why so much Gigabyte boards are used here... . ASUS or Gigabyte for me are of quite inferior quality.
Myself, i have DP43TF board, 4yr old. This board works with Lion admirably 2 yr from now. No DSDT... pure vanilla.
Wish to thanks everyone here, for the help and support building our "Macs".
I think this explanation around the top of this guide explains it: "We recommend these specific Gigabyte 8-series motherboards because they don't require a DSDT, and will most likely have native power management. They also have supported audio and network controllers."
Unless I've misunderstood something, you're not using power management at all with your Intel DP43TF board, so having it is unimportant to you. But many of us want power management, and Gigabyte UEFI motherboards have been consistently the easiest to deal with in order top get a feature that's pretty much taken for granted on real Macs.
Now with that said, I eagerly await further testing results to see if my next Hackintosh will be a Haswell based build or if the new Mac Pro will be worth it.