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Gigabyte Z97 and H97 Motherboards Gallery and Info

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WonkeyDonkey said:
I would refuse to buy a board that has an older PCI slot on it. Total deal-breaker for me personally.
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What in the world is going on with ASUS? VGA on their ITX board, and there appears to be no I/O shield support for the wifi antenna output? A pile of USB 2 connections instead of esata or discrete audio?
 
Presumably (at least in the minds of the motherboard manufacturers), there must be a lot of people out there using old, rare, specialty hardware on ancient motherboards. Fax concentrator cards? Custom-designed single-purpose processors? God only knows... I doubt that the people who rely on weird old hardware like this go out and upgrade their motherboards every year, though. I used to work for businesses that ran their day-to-day operations on 20-year old SCO boxes and you'd just hope and pray that something didn't fail because it was terrible to find replacement parts that were compatible with the legacy systems.
 
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Supacon said:
... there must be a lot of people out there using old, rare, specialty hardware on ancient motherboards. Fax concentrator cards? ...
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Wow... that one hit home. Up until 2 years ago, we kept around a 486 box running NT 4.0 because that was as far as we could go without breaking the fax concentrator card (ISA).
 
I've ordered a new system based around the Gigabyte H97-D3H motherboard, slightly speed-bumped i7-4790 CPU and GeForce 780 GTX. Been about 3 years since I last ran a Hackintosh, so I'm glad to see it seems easier than it used to be!

Given that guy's success with the Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force and the previous support for the Gigabyte H87-D3H, looks like I should be okay; Intel GbE LAN and ALC1150 are pretty common.
 
skittlebrau said:
I've ordered a new system based around the Gigabyte H97-D3H motherboard, slightly speed-bumped i7-4790 CPU and GeForce 780 GTX. Been about 3 years since I last ran a Hackintosh, so I'm glad to see it seems easier than it used to be!

Given that guy's success with the Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force and the previous support for the Gigabyte H87-D3H, looks like I should be okay; Intel GbE LAN and ALC1150 are pretty common.
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Great, I'm really waiting for your feedback !
 
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tom5151 said:
Great, I'm really waiting for your feedback !
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I'll let you guys know how it goes. It'll be interesting to see whether using OS X on a SATA Express or M.2 (NGFF) boot drive works.

Parts are still on order.
 
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