miniITX Hackintosh: number crunching, VMs, a little gaming and desktop stuff

[anix]

Hi there,

I'm currently trying to decide on a miniITX board for my very first hackintosh. Though I really can't decide between the three usual suspects, for there seems to be some glitches on every board - with me being unable to estimate the impact for my planned rig.

So, these three are my candidates:
Gigabyte H77N-WIFI (No plans for overclocking)
ASRock Z77E-ITX
Zotac Z77 ITX

I'll put an i7 3770 on it, as the Hyperthreading will be quite useful for the number crunching applications.
Bluetooth and WiFi will be fixed via USB/miniPCI in time.
A GeForce 660 TI (probably) will do the dedicated graphics processing later on, though I might settle for a cheaper card. Not decided yet.
A LianLi Q08 with disks and power supply are sitting beneath my desk.
RAM will be 16GB.

I have read a few times, that vt-(d/i) had to be disabled, to get the sleep mode to work. But I need VT for VirtualBox and VMware Fusion... so, can anyone confirm a (fully?) working ITX rig with VMs running on it?
Autosleep is not a showstopper for me, but broken manual sleep would be pretty bad.

What I have read so far includes:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-builds/74854-bittermelons-chip-build-ga-z77n-wifi-i5-3570k-hd-6870-a-6.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-builds/73451-asrock-z77e-itx-core-i7-3770k-evga-gtx-570hd.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-builds/68117-miramars-zomac-zotac-z77itx-i5-3570k-hd4000-mini-itx-mountain-lion.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-guides/75864-official-customac-mini-2012-guide-notes-progress.html

 

[Going Bald]

There is always the ASUS P8Z77-I mITX - http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...uide-asus-p8z77-i-i5-3570k-mountain-lion.html